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Weakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization (WTAL) aims to detect the action segments with only video-level action labels in training. The key challenge is how to distinguish the action of interest segments from the background, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Yuan Liu , Jingyuan Chen , Zhenfang Chen , Bing Deng , Jianqiang Huang , Hanwang Zhang

The goal of human action recognition is to temporally or spatially localize the human action of interest in video sequences. Temporal localization (i.e. indicating the start and end frames of the action in a video) is referred to as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Waqas Sultani , Qazi Ammar Arshad , Chen Chen

Current state-of-the-art human action recognition is focused on the classification of temporally trimmed videos in which only one action occurs per frame. In this work we address the problem of action localisation and instance segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Suman Saha , Gurkirt Singh , Michael Sapienza , Philip H. S. Torr , Fabio Cuzzolin

In this work, we address the problem of spatio-temporal action detection in temporally untrimmed videos. It is an important and challenging task as finding accurate human actions in both temporal and spatial space is important for analyzing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Zhenheng Yang , Jiyang Gao , Ram Nevatia

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in zero-shot action recognition by learning to associate video embeddings with class embeddings. However, a significant challenge arises when relying solely on action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yehna Kim , Young-Eun Kim , Seong-Whan Lee

Weakly Supervised Temporal Action Localization (WTAL) aims to classify and localize temporal boundaries of actions for the video, given only video-level category labels in the training datasets. Due to the lack of boundary information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Guozhang Li , De Cheng , Xinpeng Ding , Nannan Wang , Jie Li , Xinbo Gao

Online action detection (OAD) is challenging since 1) robust yet computationally expensive features cannot be straightforwardly used due to the real-time processing requirements and 2) the localization and classification of actions have to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Seungryul Baek , Kwang In Kim , Tae-Kyun Kim

Weakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization (W-TAL) aims to classify and localize all action instances in an untrimmed video under only video-level supervision. However, without frame-level annotations, it is challenging for W-TAL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Yuanhao Zhai , Le Wang , Wei Tang , Qilin Zhang , Junsong Yuan , Gang Hua

Despite the recent progress in video understanding and the continuous rate of improvement in temporal action localization throughout the years, it is still unclear how far (or close?) we are to solving the problem. To this end, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Humam Alwassel , Fabian Caba Heilbron , Victor Escorcia , Bernard Ghanem

Offline zero-shot reinforcement learning (RL) aims to learn agents that optimize unseen reward functions without additional environment interaction. The standard approach to this problem trains task-conditioned policies by sampling task…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Nazim Bendib , Nicolas Perrin-Gilbert , Olivier Sigaud

Understanding human actions in wild videos is an important task with a broad range of applications. In this paper we propose a novel approach named Hierarchical Attention Network (HAN), which enables to incorporate static spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Yilin Wang , Suhang Wang , Jiliang Tang , Neil O'Hare , Yi Chang , Baoxin Li

Temporal action localization is an important and challenging task that aims to locate temporal regions in real-world untrimmed videos where actions occur and recognize their classes. It is widely acknowledged that video context is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Xin Qin , Hanbin Zhao , Guangchen Lin , Hao Zeng , Songcen Xu , Xi Li

We propose a new formulation of temporal action detection (TAD) with denoising diffusion, DiffTAD in short. Taking as input random temporal proposals, it can yield action proposals accurately given an untrimmed long video. This presents a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Sauradip Nag , Xiatian Zhu , Jiankang Deng , Yi-Zhe Song , Tao Xiang

Temporal action detection (TAD) aims to locate and recognize the actions in an untrimmed video. Anchor-free methods have made remarkable progress which mainly formulate TAD into two tasks: classification and localization using two separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Junshan Hu , Chaoxu guo , Liansheng Zhuang , Biao Wang , Tiezheng Ge , Yuning Jiang , Houqiang Li

Weakly-supervised temporal action localization (WTAL) learns to detect and classify action instances with only category labels. Most methods widely adopt the off-the-shelf Classification-Based Pre-training (CBP) to generate video features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Chen Ju , Kunhao Zheng , Jinxiang Liu , Peisen Zhao , Ya Zhang , Jianlong Chang , Yanfeng Wang , Qi Tian

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) remains a fundamental challenge in video understanding, aiming to identify the start time, end time, and category of all action instances within untrimmed videos. While recent single-stage, anchor-free…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Thisara Rathnayaka , Uthayasanker Thayasivam

Understanding human actions from visual observations is essential for human--robot interaction, particularly when semantic interpretation of unfamiliar or hard-to-annotate actions is required. In scenarios such as rapid and less common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Yongpeng Cao , Yuji Yamakawa

Weakly-supervised temporal action localization aims to localize and recognize actions in untrimmed videos with only video-level category labels during training. Without instance-level annotations, most existing methods follow the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Huan Ren , Wenfei Yang , Tianzhu Zhang , Yongdong Zhang

We introduce Activity Graph Transformer, an end-to-end learnable model for temporal action localization, that receives a video as input and directly predicts a set of action instances that appear in the video. Detecting and localizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Megha Nawhal , Greg Mori

Spatio-temporal action detection (STAD) is an important fine-grained video understanding task. Current methods require box and label supervision for all action classes in advance. However, in real-world applications, it is very likely to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Tao Wu , Shuqiu Ge , Jie Qin , Gangshan Wu , Limin Wang