Zero-shot Action Localization via the Confidence of Large Vision-Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14340v2
• Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 23:00:49 GMT
• Title: Zero-shot Action Localization via the Confidence of Large Vision-Language Models
• Authors: Josiah Aklilu, Xiaohan Wang, Serena Yeung-Levy,
• Abstract summary: We introduce a true Zero-shot Action localization method (ZEAL)<n>Specifically, we leverage the built-in action knowledge of a large language model (LLM) to inflate actions into detailed descriptions.<n>We demonstrate remarkable results in zero-shot action localization on a challenging benchmark, without any training.
• Score: 19.683461002518147
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Precise action localization in untrimmed video is vital for fields such as professional sports and minimally invasive surgery, where the delineation of particular motions in recordings can dramatically enhance analysis. But in many cases, large scale datasets with video-label pairs for localization are unavailable, limiting the opportunity to fine-tune video-understanding models. Recent developments in large vision-language models (LVLM) address this need with impressive zero-shot capabilities in a variety of video understanding tasks. However, the adaptation of LVLMs, with their powerful visual question answering capabilities, to zero-shot localization in long-form video is still relatively unexplored. To this end, we introduce a true Zero-shot Action Localization method (ZEAL). Specifically, we leverage the built-in action knowledge of a large language model (LLM) to inflate actions into detailed descriptions of the archetypal start and end of the action. These descriptions serve as queries to LVLM for generating frame-level confidence scores which can be aggregated to produce localization outputs. The simplicity and flexibility of our method lends it amenable to more capable LVLMs as they are developed, and we demonstrate remarkable results in zero-shot action localization on a challenging benchmark, without any training. Our code is publicly available at $\href{https://github.com/josaklil-ai/zeal}{github.com/josaklil-ai/zeal}$.

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