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Action chunking is a widely adopted approach in Learning from Demonstration (LfD). By modeling multi-step action chunks rather than single-step actions, action chunking significantly enhances modeling capabilities for human expert policies.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yueyang Weng , Xiaopeng Zhang , Yongjin Mu , Yingcong Zhu , Yanjie Li , Qi Liu

Temporal action segmentation in untrimmed procedural videos aims to densely label frames into action classes. These videos inherently exhibit long-tailed distributions, where actions vary widely in frequency and duration. In temporal action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Zhanzhong Pang , Fadime Sener , Shrinivas Ramasubramanian , Angela Yao

Temporal action detection (TAD) is an important yet challenging task in video analysis. Most existing works draw inspiration from image object detection and tend to reformulate it as a proposal generation - classification problem. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Chen Zhao , Merey Ramazanova , Mengmeng Xu , Bernard Ghanem

We present a semi-supervised learning approach to the temporal action segmentation task. The goal of the task is to temporally detect and segment actions in long, untrimmed procedural videos, where only a small set of videos are densely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Guodong Ding , Angela Yao

Contemporary Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) methods typically adhere to a pre-train then fine-tune regime, where a segmentation model trained on images is fine-tuned on videos. However, the lack of temporal knowledge in the pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Qing Zhong , Peng-Tao Jiang , Wen Wang , Guodong Ding , Lin Wu , Kaiqi Huang

Weakly-supervised temporal action localization aims to locate action regions and identify action categories in untrimmed videos simultaneously by taking only video-level labels as the supervision. Pseudo label generation is a promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Wulian Yun , Mengshi Qi , Chuanming Wang , Huadong Ma

Temporally consistent dense video annotations are scarce and hard to collect. In contrast, image segmentation datasets (and pre-trained models) are ubiquitous, and easier to label for any novel task. In this paper, we introduce a method to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Aharon Azulay , Tavi Halperin , Orestis Vantzos , Nadav Borenstein , Ofir Bibi

Weakly-supervised temporal action localization aims to recognize and localize action segments in untrimmed videos given only video-level action labels for training. Without the boundary information of action segments, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Bo He , Xitong Yang , Le Kang , Zhiyu Cheng , Xin Zhou , Abhinav Shrivastava

Video semantic segmentation has achieved great progress under the supervision of large amounts of labelled training data. However, domain adaptive video segmentation, which can mitigate data labelling constraints by adapting from a labelled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Yun Xing , Dayan Guan , Jiaxing Huang , Shijian Lu

Temporal action segmentation is typically achieved by discovering the dramatic variances in global visual descriptors. In this paper, we explore the merits of local features by proposing the unsupervised framework of Object-centric Temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Yuerong Li , Zhengrong Xue , Huazhe Xu

The main progress for action segmentation comes from densely-annotated data for fully-supervised learning. Since manual annotation for frame-level actions is time-consuming and challenging, we propose to exploit auxiliary unlabeled videos,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Min-Hung Chen , Baopu Li , Yingze Bao , Ghassan AlRegib

Due to the lack of temporal annotation, current Weakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization (WTAL) methods are generally stuck into over-complete or incomplete localization. In this paper, we aim to leverage the text information to boost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Guozhang Li , De Cheng , Xinpeng Ding , Nannan Wang , Xiaoyu Wang , Xinbo Gao

The streaming temporal action segmentation (STAS) task, a supplementary task of temporal action segmentation (TAS), has not received adequate attention in the field of video understanding. Existing TAS methods are constrained to offline…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Jinrong Zhang , Wujun Wen , Shenglan Liu , Yunheng Li , Qifeng Li , Lin Feng

Temporal Action Detection (TAD), the task of localizing and classifying actions in untrimmed video, remains challenging due to action overlaps and variable action durations. Recent findings suggest that TAD performance is dependent on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Aglind Reka , Diana Laura Borza , Dominick Reilly , Michal Balazia , Francois Bremond

This paper proposes a segregated temporal assembly recurrent (STAR) network for weakly-supervised multiple action detection. The model learns from untrimmed videos with only supervision of video-level labels and makes prediction of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Yunlu Xu , Chengwei Zhang , Zhanzhan Cheng , Jianwen Xie , Yi Niu , Shiliang Pu , Fei Wu

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) aims to predict both action category and temporal boundary of action instances in untrimmed videos, i.e., start and end time. Fully-supervised solutions are usually adopted in most existing works, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Ding Li , Xuebing Yang , Yongqiang Tang , Chenyang Zhang , Wensheng Zhang

Weakly supervised temporal action localization is a challenging task as only the video-level annotation is available during the training process. To address this problem, we propose a two-stage approach to fully exploit multi-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Rui Su , Dong Xu , Luping Zhou , Wanli Ouyang

Partially annotated clips contain rich temporal contexts that can complement the sparse key frame annotations in providing supervision for model training. We present a novel paradigm called Temporally-Adaptive Features (TAF) learning that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Yongxi Lu , Ziyao Tang , Tara Javidi

Fully supervised action segmentation works on frame-wise action recognition with dense annotations and often suffers from the over-segmentation issue. Existing works have proposed a variety of solutions such as boundary-aware networks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Peiyao Wang , Haibin Ling

Automatic instrument segmentation in video is an essentially fundamental yet challenging problem for robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery. In this paper, we propose a novel framework to leverage instrument motion information, by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Yueming Jin , Keyun Cheng , Qi Dou , Pheng-Ann Heng