Temporal classification errors are often treated as representation failures, but they can also arise from how available evidence is converted into decisions. This paper proposes a representation--calibration decomposition for temporal classification. We keep a trained native classifier frozen and separate two inference-time interventions: a conservative residual multi-scale branch that adds auxiliary logits to the native prediction, and a post-hoc branch-aware calibrator that recombines native and residual evidence at decision time. This design distinguishes missing temporal evidence from underused decision-level evidence without retraining the backbone. Across FI-2010, PTB-XL, UCI-HAR, MHEALTH, and HARTH, we find that gains are strongly regime-dependent. Residual multi-scale evidence is most useful in noisy or representation-limited settings, especially short-horizon FI-2010 and weaker recurrent backbones, while branch-aware calibration helps when native and auxiliary logits contain complementary evidence not fully exploited by the raw decision rule. Near-saturated settings show limited gains from either intervention. These results suggest that temporal classification should be understood not only as representation learning, but also as the problem of trusting, combining, and calibrating evidence from multiple views.
Inam Qadir, Elizabeth B Varghese, Dena Al-Thani +1cs.CV
Accurate Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) screening for school-age children is crucial to identify cases that may have been missed earlier and to enable timely interventions supporting social, cognitive, and academic development. Current ASD screening relies on subjective assessments and 2D analysis methods that fail to capture spatial displacement patterns characteristic of ASD behaviors. In this study, a novel 3D temporal analysis framework is presented, built on top of DECA (Detailed Expression Capture and Animation), a 3D modeling framework, to extract comprehensive head pose parameters (including translational components $T_x, T_y, T_z$) and facial expressions independent of pose variations. LSTM and GRU-based temporal classifiers were trained on the extracted 3D features from video data collected from 39 participants (19 ASD, 20 TD) aged 7-12 years during Virtual Reality-Continuous Performance Test tasks. The GRU-based models demonstrated superior performance, with 3D head pose features achieving 83.9\% accuracy and 3D facial features reaching 81.4\% accuracy, outperforming 2D baseline approaches by 10.7\% and 7.5\%, respectively. Furthermore, multimodal fusion of 3D head pose and facial features with PCA-based dimensionality reduction achieved the highest accuracy of 84.6\%, outperforming unimodal approaches. This work establishes a foundation for objective, automated screening tools addressing current diagnostic limitations in ASD identification for school-age populations.
Video Capsule Endoscopy (VCE) poses a challenging multi-label temporal classification problem, requiring simultaneous localization of 8 anatomical regions and detection of 9 pathological findings across tens of thousands of frames. We present GALAR-TemporalNet v2, a hierarchical temporal model that addresses three core challenges: extreme class imbalance, long-range temporal dependencies, and pathology--anatomy entanglement. Our architecture combines windowed self-attention for local modeling, a Dual-Graph GCN for global frame relationships, and Bidirectional Mamba for selective boundary context encoding. A novel anatomy prototype residual pathway decouples pathological deviation signals from normal organ appearance, and a frame-level GCN skip connection stabilizes training of visually confusable rare classes. The competition version, GALAR-TemporalNet, achieved an overall mAP@0.5 of 0.2644 and mAP@0.95 of 0.2353 on the RARE-VISION test set. Following the competition, the redesigned GALAR-TemporalNet v2 -- incorporating a restructured pathology branch, refined loss functions, and extended post-processing -- improved these results to mAP@0.5 of 0.3409 and mAP@0.95 of 0.3333.