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Online temporal action segmentation shows a strong potential to facilitate many HRI tasks where extended human action sequences must be tracked and understood in real time. Traditional action segmentation approaches, however, operate in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Matthew Kent Myers , Nick Wright , A. Stephen McGough , Nicholas Martin

This paper focuses on temporal localization of actions in untrimmed videos. Existing methods typically train classifiers for a pre-defined list of actions and apply them in a sliding window fashion. However, activities in the wild consist…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-07 Jiyang Gao , Chen Sun , Zhenheng Yang , Ram Nevatia

Most work on temporal action detection is formulated as an offline problem, in which the start and end times of actions are determined after the entire video is fully observed. However, important real-time applications including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Mingze Xu , Mingfei Gao , Yi-Ting Chen , Larry S. Davis , David J. Crandall

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) task which is to predict the start and end of each action in a video along with the class label of the action has numerous applications in the real world. But due to the complexity of this task, acceptable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Hassan Keshvarikhojasteh , Hoda Mohammadzade , Hamid Behroozi

The crux of semi-supervised temporal action localization (SS-TAL) lies in excavating valuable information from abundant unlabeled videos. However, current approaches predominantly focus on building models that are robust to the error-prone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Kun Xia , Le Wang , Sanping Zhou , Gang Hua , Wei Tang

Temporal action localization is an important step towards video understanding. Most current action localization methods depend on untrimmed videos with full temporal annotations of action instances. However, it is expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Ashraful Islam , Richard J. Radke

We propose StartNet to address Online Detection of Action Start (ODAS) where action starts and their associated categories are detected in untrimmed, streaming videos. Previous methods aim to localize action starts by learning feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Mingfei Gao , Mingze Xu , Larry S. Davis , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong

Understanding human behavior and activity facilitates advancement of numerous real-world applications, and is critical for video analysis. Despite the progress of action recognition algorithms in trimmed videos, the majority of real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Elahe Vahdani , Yingli Tian

Temporal action detection aims at not only recognizing action category but also detecting start time and end time for each action instance in an untrimmed video. The key challenge of this task is to accurately classify the action and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Wen Wang , Yongjian Wu , Haijun Liu , Shiguang Wang , Jian Cheng

Few-shot temporal action localization (TAL) methods that adapt large models via single-prompt tuning often fail to produce precise temporal boundaries. This stems from the model learning a non-discriminative mean representation of an action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Edward Fish , Andrew Gilbert

Understanding a person's behavior from their 3D motion is a fundamental problem in computer vision with many applications. An important component of this problem is 3D Temporal Action Localization (3D-TAL), which involves recognizing what…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Jiankai Sun , Bolei Zhou , Michael J. Black , Arjun Chandrasekaran

The object of Weakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization (WS-TAL) is to localize all action instances in an untrimmed video with only video-level supervision. Due to the lack of frame-level annotations during training, current WS-TAL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Ziyi Liu , Le Wang , Qilin Zhang , Wei Tang , Junsong Yuan , Nanning Zheng , Gang Hua

Existing approaches for spatio-temporal action detection in videos are limited by the spatial extent and temporal duration of the actions. In this paper, we present a modular system for spatio-temporal action detection in untrimmed security…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Joshua Gleason , Rajeev Ranjan , Steven Schwarcz , Carlos D. Castillo , Jun-Chen Cheng , Rama Chellappa

Open-Vocabulary Temporal Action Localization (OV-TAL) aims to recognize and localize instances of any desired action categories in videos without explicitly curating training data for all categories. Existing methods mostly recognize action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zhenying Fang , Richang Hong

Temporal Action Segmentation (TAS) requires dividing videos into action segments, yet the vast space of activities and alternative breakdowns makes collecting comprehensive datasets infeasible. Existing methods remain limited to closed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Asim Unmesh , Kaki Ramesh , Mayank Patel , Rahul Jain , Karthik Ramani

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) has garnered significant attention in information retrieval. Existing supervised or weakly supervised methods heavily rely on labeled temporal boundaries and action categories, which are labor-intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Rui Xia , Dan Jiang , Quan Zhang , Ke Zhang , Chun Yuan

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to extract relevant video segments based on a given natural language query. Recently, zero-shot VTG methods have gained attention by leveraging pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) to localize target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jin-Seop Lee , SungJoon Lee , Jaehan Ahn , YunSeok Choi , Jee-Hyong Lee

Detecting activities in untrimmed videos is an important but challenging task. The performance of existing methods remains unsatisfactory, e.g., they often meet difficulties in locating the beginning and end of a long complex action. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Yuanjun Xiong , Yue Zhao , Limin Wang , Dahua Lin , Xiaoou Tang

Unsupervised video representation learning has made remarkable achievements in recent years. However, most existing methods are designed and optimized for video classification. These pre-trained models can be sub-optimal for temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Can Zhang , Tianyu Yang , Junwu Weng , Meng Cao , Jue Wang , Yuexian Zou

Zero-Shot Video Anomaly Detection (ZS-VAD) requires temporally localizing anomalies without target domain training data, which is a crucial task due to various practical concerns, e.g., data privacy or new surveillance deployments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Canhui Tang , Sanping Zhou , Haoyue Shi , Le Wang