Denoise and Align: Diffusion-Driven Foreground Knowledge Prompting for Open-Vocabulary Temporal Action Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18313v1
• Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:18:27 GMT
• Title: Denoise and Align: Diffusion-Driven Foreground Knowledge Prompting for Open-Vocabulary Temporal Action Detection
• Abstract summary: Open-Vocabulary Temporal Action Detection (OV-TAD) aims to localize and classify action segments of unseen videos.<n> DFAlign is the first framework that leverages diffusion-based denoising to generate foreground knowledge for the guidance of action-video alignment.<n>Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on two OV-TAD benchmarks.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Open-Vocabulary Temporal Action Detection (OV-TAD) aims to localize and classify action segments of unseen categories in untrimmed videos, where effective alignment between action semantics and video representations is critical for accurate detection. However, existing methods struggle to mitigate the semantic imbalance between concise, abstract action labels and rich, complex video contents, inevitably introducing semantic noise and misleading cross-modal alignment. To address this challenge, we propose DFAlign, the first framework that leverages diffusion-based denoising to generate foreground knowledge for the guidance of action-video alignment. Following the 'conditioning, denoising and aligning' manner, we first introduce the Semantic-Unify Conditioning (SUC) module, which unifies action-shared and action-specific semantics as conditions for diffusion denoising. Then, the Background-Suppress Denoising (BSD) module generates foreground knowledge by progressively removing background redundancy from videos through denoising process. This foreground knowledge serves as effective intermediate semantic anchor between video and text representations, mitigating the semantic gap and enhancing the discriminability of action-relevant segments. Furthermore, we introduce the Foreground-Prompt Alignment (FPA) module to inject extracted foreground knowledge as prompt tokens into text representations, guiding model's attention towards action-relevant segments and enabling precise cross-modal alignment. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on two OV-TAD benchmarks. The code repository is provided as follows: https://anonymous.4open.science/r/Code-2114/.

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