pith. sign in

arxiv: 2607.00289 · v1 · pith:7CAJN3N6new · submitted 2026-07-01 · 💻 cs.CV

OnPoint: Offline-to-Online Multi-Level Distillation for Point-Supervised Online Temporal Action Localization

Pith reviewed 2026-07-02 15:42 UTC · model grok-4.3

classification 💻 cs.CV
keywords temporal action localizationpoint supervisiononline processingknowledge distillationstreaming videomulti-level distillationpseudo labels
0
0 comments X

The pith

Multi-level distillation from an offline teacher enables point-supervised online temporal action localization in streaming videos.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper seeks to establish that knowledge can be transferred from a point-supervised offline teacher model to an online student model through multiple distillation paths. This would matter because it allows action localization in videos as they stream, using only a single point label per action instance instead of full annotations or complete video access. The approach combines pseudo-segment distillation, class-activation sequence distillation, and anticipatory window distillation. Incorporating original point labels and refining decoding with actionness-guided attention further improves the student's performance on streaming data.

Core claim

OnPoint is an offline-to-online multi-level distillation framework that transfers knowledge from a point-supervised offline teacher to an online student via pseudo-segment instance distillation, class-activation sequence distillation, and anticipatory window-level distillation. The framework incorporates original point labels into student training and refines anchor decoding with actionness-guided attention calibration. Experiments on five datasets demonstrate that this method consistently outperforms strong baselines for point-supervised online temporal action localization.

What carries the argument

The multi-level distillation process consisting of pseudo-segment instance distillation, class-activation sequence distillation, and anticipatory window-level distillation that bridges the offline teacher and online student.

If this is right

  • The online student model can localize actions without needing the full video at once.
  • Performance on point-supervised online TAL improves compared to existing baselines.
  • Robustness is enhanced by using the original point labels during training.
  • Anchor decoding benefits from actionness-guided attention calibration.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • This method might allow point supervision to be applied to other online video tasks beyond action localization.
  • Future work could explore reducing the reliance on the offline teacher by making the distillation more efficient.
  • Deployment in live surveillance systems could become feasible with minimal labeling effort.

Load-bearing premise

The offline teacher, trained solely on point labels, generates sufficiently accurate pseudo-segments and activation sequences to effectively train the online student.

What would settle it

Training the online student with the distillation and observing no improvement over direct training on point labels alone, or poor performance on streaming test videos despite good offline teacher results.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.00289 by Andrea Fanelli, Gauri Jagatap, Mohsen Moghaddam, Octavia Camps, Sakib Reza.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Labeling example. Ground truth, human point labels, pseudo segments from our point-supervised offline TAL teacher, and Gemini 2.5 Flash [4] MLLM labels. Gemini often merges instances and mis￾places boundaries (29.2% avg mAP), while our teacher yields accurate pseudo labels (90.3%) on THUMOS [9], underscoring the value of weak human annotation. (Sec. C) Cricket Bowling Cricket Shot During Training Cricket S… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: POTAL task. Training uses one timestamp per action instance. At test time, the model outputs action class and boundaries online, emitting each segment immediately when the action ends (no fu￾ture frames). A second challenge concerns the supervision cost. Training state-of￾the-art TAL or OnTAL models typi￾cally requires dense temporal annota￾tions specifying action start and end boundaries, which are expens… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: An overview of our proposed OnPoint framework for POTAL task. The offline teacher model, pre-trained with point-level annotations, is frozen during training. We distill knowledge into the online student model using pseudo ground truth, frame-wise class activations, and window-level action anticipation objectives. Additionally, original point annotations are directly leveraged to supervise the online model.… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Actionness sequence-based attention calibra￾tion for the anchor decoder. This module introduces an intentional bias, guiding the anchor features to emphasize high-quality action information from the most relevant frames while reducing influence from less informative ones. To ensure that the calibra￾tion value is positive for high￾actionness frames and nega￾tive for low-actionness frames, thus enhancing or … view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Qualitative comparison of action localization results on two examples from the THUMOS’14 dataset: Baseball Pitch (left) and Throw Discus (right). We compare OnPoint and the baseline HR-Pro+OAT-ONMS and the ground truth annotations. For Baseball Pitch, both methods detect the action; however, our approach provides more complete and accurate temporal boundaries. For Throw Discus, the baseline fails to locali… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Effect of offline-teacher noise on the on￾line student. Anchor-level point supervision im￾proves robustness to added increasing label noise and yields more stable performance than training without it by combining teacher guidance with point-level ground truth. Impact of Anchor-Level Point Prediction. Although auxiliary, the anchor-level point predic￾tion improves training, with a 3.5% performance drop when… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Qualitative effect of attention calibration [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Effect of anticipation win￾dow length on THUMOS14. Additional Analysis. For the anticipa￾tion distillation, the window-length analy￾sis in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: OnPoint’s actionness-based attention calibration en￾hances attention in frames with key action information while suppressing attention in irrelevant segments. Examples illus￾trate improved attention on action-relevant regions and re￾duced attention in non-informative intervals [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_9.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) typically relies on segment annotations or offline access to full videos, limiting scalability and online use. We introduce Point-Supervised Online TAL (POTAL), which localizes actions in streaming videos using only one temporal point per instance. To solve POTAL, we propose OnPoint, an offline-to-online multi-level distillation framework that transfers knowledge from a point-supervised offline teacher to an online student via (i) pseudo-segment instance distillation, (ii) class-activation sequence distillation, and (iii) anticipatory window-level distillation. We further improve robustness by incorporating the original point labels into student training and by refining anchor decoding with actionness-guided attention calibration. Experiments on five datasets show OnPoint consistently outperforms strong baselines, establishing a solid foundation for POTAL.

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit. Tearing a paper down is the easy half of reading it; the pith above is the substance, this is the friction.

Referee Report

1 major / 0 minor

Summary. The manuscript introduces Point-Supervised Online Temporal Action Localization (POTAL), a setting for localizing actions in streaming videos using only one temporal point per instance. It proposes OnPoint, an offline-to-online multi-level distillation framework that transfers knowledge from a point-supervised offline teacher to an online student via pseudo-segment instance distillation, class-activation sequence distillation, and anticipatory window-level distillation. The approach retains original point labels during student training and uses actionness-guided attention calibration for anchor decoding, claiming consistent outperformance over strong baselines on five datasets.

Significance. If the empirical claims hold, the work is significant for establishing the POTAL task and providing a concrete three-component distillation pipeline that bridges offline point-supervised models with online inference constraints. This could enable more scalable real-time video analysis with minimal annotation, addressing limitations of both full segment supervision and offline full-video access.

major comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim that 'Experiments on five datasets show OnPoint consistently outperforms strong baselines' is unsupported because the manuscript supplies no quantitative results, tables, figures, experimental protocol, dataset details, baseline descriptions, or metrics. This absence prevents verification of the outperformance claim, which is load-bearing for the paper's contribution.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

1 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for identifying this critical issue with the abstract's unsupported claim. We agree that the experimental outperformance must be substantiated with concrete results, protocols, and metrics in the manuscript.

read point-by-point responses
  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim that 'Experiments on five datasets show OnPoint consistently outperforms strong baselines' is unsupported because the manuscript supplies no quantitative results, tables, figures, experimental protocol, dataset details, baseline descriptions, or metrics. This absence prevents verification of the outperformance claim, which is load-bearing for the paper's contribution.

    Authors: We fully acknowledge the validity of this comment. The manuscript text available for review consists only of the abstract and does not include any experimental sections, tables, figures, dataset details, baselines, metrics, or protocols. This omission means the central claim cannot be verified from the provided content. We will revise the manuscript by adding a complete experimental section that reports results on the five datasets, including all quantitative tables, figures, evaluation protocols, dataset descriptions, baseline implementations, and metrics to directly support the abstract claim. revision: yes

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged

No significant circularity; derivation is a forward engineering proposal

full rationale

The paper introduces a concrete three-component distillation pipeline (pseudo-segment instance distillation, class-activation sequence distillation, anticipatory window-level distillation) plus point-label retention and actionness-guided decoding for point-supervised online TAL. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-citation chains are present in the abstract or stated construction that reduce the claimed outputs to the inputs by definition. The method is presented as an empirical engineering contribution evaluated on five datasets; the central claims do not rely on uniqueness theorems, ansatzes smuggled via prior self-work, or renaming of known results. The reader's assessment of score 0.0 is confirmed: the argument remains self-contained against external benchmarks and does not exhibit any of the enumerated circularity patterns.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

Abstract-only review supplies no explicit free parameters or invented entities. The central premise is a domain assumption about the transferability of point-supervised offline knowledge to an online student.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption An offline model trained with single-point labels can generate pseudo-segments and activation sequences sufficiently accurate to train a functional online student.
    This premise is required for the distillation pipeline to succeed and is implicit in the problem setup.

pith-pipeline@v0.9.1-grok · 5677 in / 1250 out tokens · 43449 ms · 2026-07-02T15:42:14.087070+00:00 · methodology

discussion (0)

Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.

Reference graph

Works this paper leans on

55 extracted references · 3 canonical work pages · 1 internal anchor

  1. [1]

    In: Proceedings of the ieee conference on computer vision and pattern recognition

    Caba Heilbron, F., Escorcia, V., Ghanem, B., Carlos Niebles, J.: Activitynet: A large-scale video benchmark for human activity understanding. In: Proceedings of the ieee conference on computer vision and pattern recognition. pp. 961–970 (2015)

  2. [2]

    Celdrán,F.J.,Jiménez-Ruescas,J.,Lobato,C.,Salazar,L.,Sánchez-Margallo,J.A., Sánchez-Margallo, F.M., González, P.: Use of augmented reality for training assis- tanceinlaparoscopicsurgery:scopingliteraturereview.JournalofMedicalInternet Research27, e58108 (2025)

  3. [3]

    Chen, L., Yang, T., Zhang, X., Zhang, W., Sun, J.: Points as queries: Weakly semi- supervisedobjectdetectionbypoints.In:ProceedingsoftheIEEE/CVFconference on computer vision and pattern recognition. pp. 8823–8832 (2021)

  4. [4]

    Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities

    Comanici, G., Bieber, E., Schaekermann, M., Pasupat, I., Sachdeva, N., Dhillon, I., Blistein, M., Ram, O., Zhang, D., Rosen, E., et al.: Gemini 2.5: Pushing the frontier with advanced reasoning, multimodality, long context, and next generation agentic capabilities. arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.06261 (2025)

  5. [5]

    International Journal of Computer Vision130(1), 33–55 (2022)

    Damen, D., Doughty, H., Farinella, G.M., Furnari, A., Kazakos, E., Ma, J., Molti- santi, D., Munro, J., Perrett, T., Price, W., et al.: Rescaling egocentric vision: Collection, pipeline and challenges for epic-kitchens-100. International Journal of Computer Vision130(1), 33–55 (2022)

  6. [6]

    In: Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Interna- tional Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

    Du, D., Li, E., Si, L., Xu, F., Sun, F.: Timestamp-supervised action segmentation from the perspective of clustering. In: Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Interna- tional Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. pp. 690–698 (2023)

  7. [7]

    In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision

    Guermal, M., Ali, A., Dai, R., Brémond, F.: Joadaa: joint online action detection and action anticipation. In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision. pp. 6889–6898 (2024)

  8. [8]

    In: 2025 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)

    Gupta, A., Mittal, G., Magooda, A., Yu, Y., Taylor, G.W., Chen, M.: Losa: long- short-range adapter for scaling end-to-end temporal action localization. In: 2025 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV). pp. 2092–2102. IEEE (2025)

  9. [9]

    in the wild

    Idrees, H., Zamir, A.R., Jiang, Y.G., Gorban, A., Laptev, I., Sukthankar, R., Shah, M.: The thumos challenge on action recognition for videos “in the wild”. Computer Vision and Image Understanding155, 1–23 (2017)

  10. [10]

    In: 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

    Jiang, C., Dehghan, M., Jagersand, M.: Understanding contexts inside robot and human manipulation tasks through vision-language model and ontology system in video streams. In: 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). pp. 8366–8372. IEEE (2020)

  11. [11]

    In: European Conference on Computer Vision

    Kang, H., Hyun, J., An, J., Yu, Y., Kim, S.J.: Actionswitch: Class-agnostic de- tection of simultaneous actions in streaming videos. In: European Conference on Computer Vision. pp. 383–400. Springer (2024)

  12. [12]

    In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision

    Kang, H., Kim, K., Ko, Y., Kim, S.J.: Cag-qil: Context-aware actionness grouping via q imitation learning for online temporal action localization. In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision. pp. 13729–13738 (2021)

  13. [13]

    In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision

    Kim, H., Lee, S., Kang, H., Im, S.: Offline-to-online knowledge distillation for video instance segmentation. In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision. pp. 159–168 (2024)

  14. [14]

    In: European Conference on Computer Vision

    Kim, Y.H., Kang, H., Kim, S.J.: A sliding window scheme for online temporal action localization. In: European Conference on Computer Vision. pp. 653–669. Springer (2022) Point-Supervised Online Temporal Action Localization 17

  15. [15]

    Pattern Recognition131, 108871 (2022)

    Kim, Y.H., Nam, S., Kim, S.J.: 2pesnet: Towards online processing of temporal action localization. Pattern Recognition131, 108871 (2022)

  16. [16]

    In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF international con- ference on computer vision

    Lee, P., Byun, H.: Learning action completeness from points for weakly-supervised temporal action localization. In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF international con- ference on computer vision. pp. 13648–13657 (2021)

  17. [17]

    In: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

    Li, J., Liu, X., Zhu, B., Jiao, J., Tomizuka, M., Tang, C., Zhan, W.: Guided online distillation: Promoting safe reinforcement learning by offline demonstration. In: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). pp. 7447–7454. IEEE (2024)

  18. [18]

    In: Proceedings of the European conference on computer vision (ECCV)

    Li,Y.,Liu,M.,Rehg,J.M.:Intheeyeofbeholder:Jointlearningofgazeandactions in first person video. In: Proceedings of the European conference on computer vision (ECCV). pp. 619–635 (2018)

  19. [19]

    In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF conference on computer vision and pattern recog- nition

    Lin, C., Xu, C., Luo, D., Wang, Y., Tai, Y., Wang, C., Li, J., Huang, F., Fu, Y.: Learning salient boundary feature for anchor-free temporal action localization. In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF conference on computer vision and pattern recog- nition. pp. 3320–3329 (2021)

  20. [20]

    In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF interna- tional conference on computer vision

    Lin, T., Liu, X., Li, X., Ding, E., Wen, S.: Bmn: Boundary-matching network for temporal action proposal generation. In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF interna- tional conference on computer vision. pp. 3889–3898 (2019)

  21. [21]

    In: Proceedings of the European conference on computer vision (ECCV)

    Lin, T., Zhao, X., Su, H., Wang, C., Yang, M.: Bsn: Boundary sensitive network for temporal action proposal generation. In: Proceedings of the European conference on computer vision (ECCV). pp. 3–19 (2018)

  22. [22]

    In: International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning

    Liu, H., Liu, Q., Wu, L., Shi, M., Cui, Z.: Offline-to-online: Case-based knowledge distillation with large language models for reinforcement learning. In: International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning. pp. 142–156. Springer (2025)

  23. [23]

    In: Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Con- ference

    Liu, M., Wang, L., Zhou, S., Xia, K., Sun, X., Hua, G.: Boosting point-supervised temporal action localization through integrating query reformation and optimal transport. In: Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Con- ference. pp. 13865–13875 (2025)

  24. [24]

    In: European Conference on Computer Vision

    Liu, M., Wang, L., Zhou, S., Xia, K., Wu, Q., Zhang, Q., Hua, G.: Stepwise multi- grained boundary detector for point-supervised temporal action localization. In: European Conference on Computer Vision. pp. 333–349. Springer (2024)

  25. [25]

    IEEE transactions on image processing 31, 6937–6950 (2022)

    Liu, Y., Wang, L., Wang, Y., Ma, X., Qiao, Y.: Fineaction: A fine-grained video dataset for temporal action localization. IEEE transactions on image processing 31, 6937–6950 (2022)

  26. [26]

    In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

    Liu, Y., Liu, Y., Jiang, C., Lyu, K., Wan, W., Shen, H., Liang, B., Fu, Z., Wang, H., Yi, L.: Hoi4d: A 4d egocentric dataset for category-level human-object interaction. In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. pp. 21013–21022 (2022)

  27. [27]

    In: European conference on computer vision

    Ma, F., Zhu, L., Yang, Y., Zha, S., Kundu, G., Feiszli, M., Shou, Z.: Sf-net: Single- frame supervision for temporal action localization. In: European conference on computer vision. pp. 420–437. Springer (2020)

  28. [28]

    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems37, 81808–81835 (2024)

    Nie, M., Ding, D., Wang, C., Guo, Y., Han, J., Xu, H., Zhang, L.: Slowfocus: Enhancing fine-grained temporal understanding in video llm. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems37, 81808–81835 (2024)

  29. [29]

    In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision

    Patel, D., Babazaki, Y., Nagase, Y., Melvin, I., Min, M.R.: Distilling offline ac- tion detection models into real-time streaming models. In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision. pp. 6205– 6214 (2026) 18 S. Reza et al

  30. [30]

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2024)

    Patsch, C., Wu, Y., Salihu, D., Zakour, M., Steinbach, E.: Tscl: Timestamp super- vised contrastive learning for action segmentation. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2024)

  31. [31]

    In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF conference on computer vision and pattern recognition

    Qing, Z., Su, H., Gan, W., Wang, D., Wu, W., Wang, X., Qiao, Y., Yan, J., Gao, C., Sang, N.: Temporal context aggregation network for temporal action proposal refinement. In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF conference on computer vision and pattern recognition. pp. 485–494 (2021)

  32. [32]

    In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops

    Reza, S., Song, X., Yu, H., Lin, Z., Moghaddam, M., Camps, O.: Reef: Relevance- aware and efficient llm adapter for video understanding. In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops. pp. 2617–2628 (June 2025)

  33. [33]

    arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.11365 (2023)

    Reza, S., Sundareshan, B., Moghaddam, M., Camps, O.: Enhancing trans- former backbone for egocentric video action segmentation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.11365 (2023)

  34. [34]

    In: European Conference on Computer Vision

    Reza, S., Zhang, Y., Moghaddam, M., Camps, O.: Hat: History-augmented anchor transformer for online temporal action localization. In: European Conference on Computer Vision. pp. 205–222. Springer (2024)

  35. [35]

    In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF inter- national conference on computer vision

    Shao, J., Wang, X., Quan, R., Zheng, J., Yang, J., Yang, Y.: Action sensitivity learning for temporal action localization. In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF inter- national conference on computer vision. pp. 13457–13469 (2023)

  36. [36]

    In: European conference on computer vision

    Shi, D., Zhong, Y., Cao, Q., Zhang, J., Ma, L., Li, J., Tao, D.: React: Tempo- ral action detection with relational queries. In: European conference on computer vision. pp. 105–121. Springer (2022)

  37. [37]

    IEEE Transactions on circuits and systems for video technology28(5), 1212–1231 (2017)

    Shih, H.C.: A survey of content-aware video analysis for sports. IEEE Transactions on circuits and systems for video technology28(5), 1212–1231 (2017)

  38. [38]

    In: European Conference on Computer Vision

    Song, Y., Kim, D., Cho, M., Kwak, S.: Online temporal action localization with memory-augmented transformer. In: European Conference on Computer Vision. pp. 74–91. Springer (2024)

  39. [39]

    arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.04905 (2022)

    Tang, T.N., Park, J., Kim, K., Sohn, K.: Simon: a simple framework for online temporal action localization. arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.04905 (2022)

  40. [40]

    Advances in neural information pro- cessing systems30(2017)

    Vaswani,A.,Shazeer,N.,Parmar,N.,Uszkoreit,J.,Jones,L.,Gomez,A.N.,Kaiser, Ł., Polosukhin, I.: Attention is all you need. Advances in neural information pro- cessing systems30(2017)

  41. [41]

    The Visual Computer29(10), 983–1009 (2013)

    Vishwakarma, S., Agrawal, A.: A survey on activity recognition and behavior un- derstanding in video surveillance. The Visual Computer29(10), 983–1009 (2013)

  42. [42]

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence46(4), 2171–2190 (2023)

    Wang, B., Zhao, Y., Yang, L., Long, T., Li, X.: Temporal action localization in the deep learning era: A survey. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence46(4), 2171–2190 (2023)

  43. [43]

    In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Inter- national Conference on Computer Vision

    Wang, J., Chen, G., Huang, Y., Wang, L., Lu, T.: Memory-and-anticipation trans- former for online action understanding. In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Inter- national Conference on Computer Vision. pp. 13824–13835 (2023)

  44. [44]

    In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF conference on computer vision and pattern recognition

    Wang, Q., Zhang, Y., Zheng, Y., Pan, P.: Rcl: Recurrent continuous localization for temporal action detection. In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF conference on computer vision and pattern recognition. pp. 13566–13575 (2022)

  45. [45]

    IEEE Access8, 70477– 70487 (2020)

    Xia, H., Zhan, Y.: A survey on temporal action localization. IEEE Access8, 70477– 70487 (2020)

  46. [46]

    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia25, 9425–9436 (2023)

    Xia, K., Wang, L., Shen, Y., Zhou, S., Hua, G., Tang, W.: Exploring action centers for temporal action localization. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia25, 9425–9436 (2023)

  47. [47]

    Pattern Recognition129, 108725 (2022) Point-Supervised Online Temporal Action Localization 19

    Xia, K., Wang, L., Zhou, S., Hua, G., Tang, W.: Dual relation network for temporal action localization. Pattern Recognition129, 108725 (2022) Point-Supervised Online Temporal Action Localization 19

  48. [48]

    In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF conference on computer vision and pattern recognition

    Xia, K., Wang, L., Zhou, S., Zheng, N., Tang, W.: Learning to refactor action and co-occurrence features for temporal action localization. In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF conference on computer vision and pattern recognition. pp. 13884– 13893 (2022)

  49. [49]

    In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

    Xia, Z., Cheng, J., Liu, S., Hu, Y., Wang, S., Zhang, Y., Dang, L.: Realigning confidence with temporal saliency information for point-level weakly-supervised temporal action localization. In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. pp. 18440–18450 (2024)

  50. [50]

    In: Proceedings of the IEEE international conference on computer vision

    Xu, H., Das, A., Saenko, K.: R-c3d: Region convolutional 3d network for tem- poral activity detection. In: Proceedings of the IEEE international conference on computer vision. pp. 5783–5792 (2017)

  51. [51]

    IEEE Access12, 191808–191827 (2024)

    Yoo, S., Reza, S., Tarashiyoun, H., Ajikumar, A., Moghaddam, M.: Ai-integrated ar as an intelligent companion for industrial workers: a systematic review. IEEE Access12, 191808–191827 (2024)

  52. [52]

    In: European Conference on Computer Vision

    Zhang, C.L., Wu, J., Li, Y.: Actionformer: Localizing moments of actions with transformers. In: European Conference on Computer Vision. pp. 492–510. Springer (2022)

  53. [53]

    In: Proceed- ings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

    Zhang, H., Wang, X., Xu, X., Qing, Z., Gao, C., Sang, N.: Hr-pro: Point-supervised temporal action localization via hierarchical reliability propagation. In: Proceed- ings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. vol. 38(7), pp. 7115–7123 (2024)

  54. [54]

    In: Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference

    Zhang, Q., Fang, J., Yuan, R., Tang, X., Qi, Y., Zhang, K., Yuan, C.: Weakly supervised temporal action localization via dual-prior collaborative learning guided by multimodal large language models. In: Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference. pp. 24139–24148 (2025) Supplementary Materials This supplement provides additional ...

  55. [55]

    label": class_label,

    in our evaluation. As noted in [14], ActivityNet v1.3 is not well-suited for the Online TAL setting because its videos typically contain only a single action instance that spans most of the video duration. This contradicts the primary objective of On-TAL, which is to detect multiple, potentially overlapping action instances in a streaming environment. Hyp...