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Record W4410218521 · doi:10.1016/j.aej.2025.05.006

Global context-aware attention model for weakly-supervised temporal action localization

2025· article· en· W4410218521 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueAlexandria Engineering Journal · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicHuman Pose and Action Recognition
Canadian institutionsBrandon University
FundersNatural Science Foundation of Hunan ProvinceNational Natural Science Foundation of China
KeywordsContext (archaeology)Action (physics)Computer scienceEnvironmental scienceArtificial intelligenceGeographyPhysics

Abstract

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Temporal action localization (TAL) is a significant and challenging task in the field of video understanding. It aims to locate the start and end timestamps of the actions in a video and recognize their categories. However, efficient action localization often requires extensive precise annotations. Therefore, the researchers propose weakly-supervised temporal action localization (WTAL), which aims to locate action instances in a video using only video level annotations. The existing WTAL methods lack the ability to distinguish the action context information effectively, including the pre-action and post-action scenes, which blur the action boundary and lead to the inaccurate action location. To solve the above problems, this paper proposes a global context-aware attention model (GCAM). Firstly, GCAM designs the mask attention module (MAM) to restrict the model's receptive field and make the model focus on localized features related to the action context. It enhances the ability to distinguish the action context information and clearly locate the start and end timestamps of the actions. Secondly, GCAM introduces the context broadcasting module (CBM), which supplements the global context information to keep the features intact in temporal dimension. This module solves the issue that the model overemphasizes the localized features due to the addition of the MAM. Extensive experiments on the THUMOS14 and ActivityNet1.2 datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of GCAM. On the THUMOS14 dataset, GCAM achieves an average mean average precision (mAP) of 49.5 %, representing a 2.2 % improvement over existing WTAL methods. On the ActivityNet1.2 dataset, GCAM achieves an average mAP of 27.2 %, representing a 0.3 % improvement over existing WTAL methods. These results highlight the superior performance of GCAM in accurately localizing actions in videos.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.971
Threshold uncertainty score0.548

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.024
GPT teacher head0.268
Teacher spread0.244 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it