Part of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37 (NeurIPS 2024) Main Conference Track
qingsong zhao, Yi Wang, Jilan Xu, Yinan He, Zifan Song, Limin Wang, Yu Qiao, Cairong Zhao
Video understanding relies on accurate action detection for temporal analysis. However, existing mainstream methods have limitations in real-world applications due to their offline and closed-set evaluation approaches, as well as their dependence on manual annotations. To address these challenges and enable real-time action understanding in open-world scenarios, we propose OV-OAD, a zero-shot online action detector that leverages vision-language models and learns solely from text supervision. By introducing an object-centered decoder unit into a Transformer-based model, we aggregate frames with similar semantics using video-text correspondence. Extensive experiments on four action detection benchmarks demonstrate that OV-OAD outperforms other advanced zero-shot methods. Specifically, it achieves 37.5\% mean average precision on THUMOS’14 and 73.8\% calibrated average precision on TVSeries. This research establishes a robust baseline for zero-shot transfer in online action detection, enabling scalable solutions for open-world temporal understanding. The code will be available for download at \url{https://github.com/OpenGVLab/OV-OAD}.