The paper introduces Skeleton-Language feature Pooling Switching, a weakly‑supervised vision‑language pretraining strategy for skeleton‑based zero‑shot spatio‑temporal action localization. It replaces video‑level pooling with instance‑level feature computation during inference, enabling the model to estimate unseen actions without costly annotations. Additionally, Scene‑Mixed Discriminative Contrastive Learning is proposed to separate actions at the instance level within mixed scenes using a MIL framework, and experiments on four public datasets confirm the method’s effectiveness.
arXiv:2602.05718v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Point-supervised Temporal Action Localization (PTAL) adopts a lightly frame-annotated paradigm (\textit{i.e.}, labeling only a single frame per act...
Fine-grained understanding of operating room (OR) activity could enable workflow-aware assistance, yet remains difficult due to clutter, occlusions, and limited sensing. The prevailing approach to model this environment is scene graphs as an interpretable representation of OR interactions.
SV-TAD introduces native sparse 2D convolutions to enable convolutional adapters to operate directly on dynamically pruned token sets, addressing the inefficiency of dense reconstruction in token‑selection methods. By integrating this primitive into a temporal action detection framework, the approach cuts VideoMAEv2‑L computation by up to 64% and achieves 2.2× faster inference while preserving state‑of‑the‑art accuracy on THUMOS‑14 and ActivityNet‑1.3. When applied to InternVideoNext‑L, it surpasses prior state‑of‑the‑art performance at roughly half the computational cost and naturally supports auxiliary task tokens for improved fine‑grained assembly detection on ATTACH.
arXiv:2607. 03595v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Affordance grounding aims to localize image regions that support a specific action, serving as a core capability for physical intelligence and embodied perception.
To adapt billion-parameter Vision Transformers for long-video understanding, recent methods freeze the backbone and train lightweight convolutional modules. While effective for parameter-efficient tra...
Precise Event Spotting (PES) requires distinguishing visually similar yet semantically distinct adjacent frames, making it fundamentally different from image classification and coarse action recognition. Although self-distillation methods such as DINO have shown strong representation learning ability in images, we find that directly applying them to PES is ineffective: without supervised guidance, subtle but crucial motion cues are often suppressed as noise, leading to representations that are insensitive to precise event boundaries.
Pose-Anchored Optical Flow for Low-Latency Human Action Anticipation in Human-Robot Teaming proposes PoseOFF, a representation that captures local motion around human joints by conditioning optical flow extraction on pose. This structured motion representation aligns with human kinematics and improves early action recognition accuracy across multiple datasets and backbones. PoseOFF achieves comparable or better performance while observing less of the action sequence, making it suitable for real‑time, resource‑constrained robotic systems.
The paper introduces a promptable localized motion representation that generates persistent embeddings for user-specified regions in a video, without cropping or masking the input. By conditioning motion encoding directly on spatial masks while processing the full video, the method produces temporally consistent, region-addressable embeddings that capture local dynamics while preserving global context. These embeddings enable object-level motion transfer for dynamic scene composition and improve localized action classification in multi-actor videos, outperforming global representations that rely on cropping or post-hoc masking.
Action Quality Assessment (AQA) aims to objectively evaluate performance quality from action videos. Most existing methods follow a ``one-by-one'' paradigm, training a separate model for each action type.
The paper introduces a method that uses large language models (LLMs) to expand language queries with detailed textual descriptions of action start and end boundaries, providing richer cues for video action localization. It also proposes a training strategy that models boundary probability scores by combining semantic similarity between frames and the expanded query with temporal distance to annotated boundaries, thereby offering more consistent supervision. The approach is model‑agnostic and can be integrated into existing language‑driven action localization systems, with experiments on multiple datasets showing its effectiveness.
arXiv:2607. 02269v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated immense promise in Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding (STVG).
arXiv:2401. 10805v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce the novel concept of visually Connecting Actions and Their Effects (CATE) in video understanding.