{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/autoloc-weakly-supervised-temporal-action-1","title":"AutoLoc: Weakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization in Untrimmed Videos","arxiv_id":null,"date":"2018-09-01","proceeding":"ECCV 2018 9","authors":["Zheng Shou","Hang Gao","Lei Zhang","Kazuyuki Miyazawa","Shih-Fu Chang"],"abstract":"Temporal Action Localization (TAL) in untrimmed video is important for many applications. But it is very expensive to annotate the segment-level ground truth (action class and temporal boundary). This raises the interest of addressing TAL with weak supervision, namely only video-level annotations are available during training). However, the state-of-the-art weakly-supervised TAL methods only focus on generating good Class Activation Sequence (CAS) over time but conduct simple thresholding on CAS to localize actions. In this paper, we first develop a novel weakly-supervised TAL framework called AutoLoc to directly predict the temporal boundary of each action instance. We propose a novel Outer-Inner-Contrastive (OIC) loss to automatically discover the needed segment-level supervision for training such a boundary predictor. Our method achieves dramatically improved performance: under the IoU threshold 0.5, our method improves mAP on THUMOS'14 from 13.7% to 21.2% and mAP on ActivityNet from 7.4% to 27.3%. It is also very encouraging to see that our weakly-supervised method achieves comparable results with some fully-supervised methods.","url_abs":"http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_ECCV_2018/html/Zheng_Shou_AutoLoc_Weakly-supervised_Temporal_ECCV_2018_paper.html","url_pdf":"http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_ECCV_2018/papers/Zheng_Shou_AutoLoc_Weakly-supervised_Temporal_ECCV_2018_paper.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"action-localization","task_name":"Action Localization"},{"task_slug":"action-recognition","task_name":"Temporal Action Localization"},{"task_slug":"weakly-supervised-action-localization","task_name":"Weakly Supervised Action Localization"},{"task_slug":"weakly-supervised-temporal-action","task_name":"Weakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[{"leaderboard":"/sota/weakly-supervised-action-localization-on-2","task":"Weakly Supervised Action Localization","dataset":"ActivityNet-1.2","model":"AutoLoc","rank_in_archive_order":19,"of":19,"metrics":{"mAP@0.5":"27.3"},"uses_additional_data":false},{"leaderboard":"/sota/weakly-supervised-action-localization-on","task":"Weakly Supervised Action Localization","dataset":"THUMOS 2014","model":"AutoLoc","rank_in_archive_order":28,"of":30,"metrics":{"mAP@0.1:0.7":"-","mAP@0.5":"21.2"},"uses_additional_data":false}],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}