Action Detection

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

11 leaderboard tables shown for this task, 11 with rows (a “benchmark” on this site is a table with at least one row, as on /sota), ordered by row count. “Best model” is the first row in the archive's own order at snapshot; nothing is re-ranked here and metric direction is not recorded in the archive. PwC's Trend sparklines are not in the archive, so that column is omitted. 10 shown of 11 until expanded.

Syntology column: samples harvested from the paper's repositories and executed on synthesized fixtures; “ran” is not a correctness claim and does not order the table. A dash means no Syntology record for that paper, not a recorded non-run. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

34 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count. 30 shown of 34 until expanded.

Subtasks archive 2025-07-28

8 subtasks in the archive's task tree.

Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 277 papers with code (817 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• Continuous control with deep reinforcement learning
  9 Sep 2015 161 repositories listed Syntology ran 158 of 306 samples · 148 unverified · 163 pointer-only (licence)
  We adapt the ideas underlying the success of Deep Q-Learning to the continuous action domain.
• BSN: Boundary Sensitive Network for Temporal Action Proposal Generation
  8 Jun 2018 17 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 4 samples · 1 unverified · 4 pointer-only (licence)
  Temporal action proposal generation is an important yet challenging problem, since temporal proposals with rich action content are indispensable for analysing real-world videos with long duration and high proportion…
• BMN: Boundary-Matching Network for Temporal Action Proposal Generation
  23 Jul 2019 15 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 11 samples · 8 unverified
  To address these difficulties, we introduce the Boundary-Matching (BM) mechanism to evaluate confidence scores of densely distributed proposals, which denote a proposal as a matching pair of starting and ending…
• SlowFast Networks for Video Recognition
  10 Dec 2018 15 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 10 samples · 10 unverified
  We present SlowFast networks for video recognition.
• AVA: A Video Dataset of Spatio-temporally Localized Atomic Visual Actions
  23 May 2017 9 repositories listed
  The AVA dataset densely annotates 80 atomic visual actions in 430 15-minute video clips, where actions are localized in space and time, resulting in 1.
• Rescaling Egocentric Vision
  23 Jun 2020 7 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 18 samples · 15 unverified
  This paper introduces the pipeline to extend the largest dataset in egocentric vision, EPIC-KITCHENS.
• CholecTriplet2021: A benchmark challenge for surgical action triplet recognition
  10 Apr 2022 6 repositories listed
  In this paper, we present the challenge setup and assessment of the state-of-the-art deep learning methods proposed by the participants during the challenge.
• Temporal Action Detection with Structured Segment Networks
  20 Apr 2017 6 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 2 samples · 1 unverified
  Detecting actions in untrimmed videos is an important yet challenging task.
• You Only Watch Once: A Unified CNN Architecture for Real-Time Spatiotemporal Action Localization
  15 Nov 2019 5 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 12 samples · 9 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)
  YOWO is a single-stage architecture with two branches to extract temporal and spatial information concurrently and predict bounding boxes and action probabilities directly from video clips in one evaluation.
• From Recognition to Prediction: Analysis of Human Action and Trajectory Prediction in Video
  20 Nov 2020 4 repositories listed
  With the advancement in computer vision deep learning, systems now are able to analyze an unprecedented amount of rich visual information from videos to enable applications such as autonomous driving, socially-aware…
• HAKE: Human Activity Knowledge Engine
  13 Apr 2019 4 repositories listed
  To address these and promote the activity understanding, we build a large-scale Human Activity Knowledge Engine (HAKE) based on the human body part states.
• Learning Motion in Feature Space: Locally-Consistent Deformable Convolution Networks for Fine-Grained Action Detection
  21 Nov 2018 4 repositories listed
  Fine-grained action detection is an important task with numerous applications in robotics and human-computer interaction.
• Moshi: a speech-text foundation model for real-time dialogue
  17 Sep 2024 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 7 samples · 5 unverified
  Our resulting model is the first real-time full-duplex spoken large language model, with a theoretical latency of 160ms, 200ms in practice, and is available at https://github.
• No Time to Waste: Squeeze Time into Channel for Mobile Video Understanding
  14 May 2024 3 repositories listed
  In this paper, we propose to squeeze the time axis of a video sequence into the channel dimension and present a lightweight video recognition network, term as \textit{SqueezeTime}, for mobile video understanding.
• Temporal Action Localization with Enhanced Instant Discriminability
  11 Sep 2023 3 repositories listed
  Temporal action detection (TAD) aims to detect all action boundaries and their corresponding categories in an untrimmed video.
• Multi-Speaker and Wide-Band Simulated Conversations as Training Data for End-to-End Neural Diarization
  12 Nov 2022 3 repositories listed
  End-to-end diarization presents an attractive alternative to standard cascaded diarization systems because a single system can handle all aspects of the task at once.
• ROAD: The ROad event Awareness Dataset for Autonomous Driving
  23 Feb 2021 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  We also report the performance on the ROAD tasks of Slowfast and YOLOv5 detectors, as well as that of the winners of the ICCV2021 ROAD challenge, which highlight the challenges faced by situation awareness in autonomous…
• Context-Aware RCNN: A Baseline for Action Detection in Videos
  20 Jul 2020 3 repositories listed
  In this work, we first empirically find the recognition accuracy is highly correlated with the bounding box size of an actor, and thus higher resolution of actors contributes to better performance.
• Actor-Context-Actor Relation Network for Spatio-Temporal Action Localization
  14 Jun 2020 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 27 samples · 26 unverified
  We propose to explicitly model the Actor-Context-Actor Relation, which is the relation between two actors based on their interactions with the context.
• A Multigrid Method for Efficiently Training Video Models
  2 Dec 2019 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 10 samples · 8 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)
  We empirically demonstrate a general and robust grid schedule that yields a significant out-of-the-box training speedup without a loss in accuracy for different models (I3D, non-local, SlowFast), datasets (Kinetics,…
• pyannote.audio: neural building blocks for speaker diarization
  4 Nov 2019 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified
  We introduce pyannote.
• rVAD: An Unsupervised Segment-Based Robust Voice Activity Detection Method
  9 Jun 2019 3 repositories listed
  In the end, a posteriori SNR weighted energy difference is applied to the extended pitch segments of the denoised speech signal for detecting voice activity.
• Fine-grained Activity Recognition in Baseball Videos
  9 Apr 2018 3 repositories listed
  In this paper, we introduce a challenging new dataset, MLB-YouTube, designed for fine-grained activity detection.
• R-C3D: Region Convolutional 3D Network for Temporal Activity Detection
  22 Mar 2017 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 1 samples · 1 unverified
  We address the problem of activity detection in continuous, untrimmed video streams.
• An End-to-End Architecture for Keyword Spotting and Voice Activity Detection
  28 Nov 2016 3 repositories listed
  We propose a single neural network architecture for two tasks: on-line keyword spotting and voice activity detection.
• Temporal Activity Detection in Untrimmed Videos with Recurrent Neural Networks
  29 Aug 2016 3 repositories listed
  This thesis explore different approaches using Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Networks to classify and temporally localize activities on videos, furthermore an implementation to achieve it has been proposed.
• Stable Mean Teacher for Semi-supervised Video Action Detection
  10 Dec 2024 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 6 samples · 4 unverified
  In this work, we focus on semi-supervised learning for video action detection.
• Skeleton-OOD: An End-to-End Skeleton-Based Model for Robust Out-of-Distribution Human Action Detection
  31 May 2024 2 repositories listed
  To address these challenges, we propose a novel end-to-end skeleton-based model called Skeleton-OOD, which is committed to improving the effectiveness of OOD tasks while ensuring the accuracy of ID recognition.
• End-to-End Temporal Action Detection with 1B Parameters Across 1000 Frames
  28 Nov 2023 2 repositories listed
  In this paper, we reduce the memory consumption for end-to-end training, and manage to scale up the TAD backbone to 1 billion parameters and the input video to 1, 536 frames, leading to significant detection performance.
• ivrit.ai: A Comprehensive Dataset of Hebrew Speech for AI Research and Development
  17 Jul 2023 2 repositories listed
  We introduce "ivrit.

Syntology lines on 14 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.