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Identifying common patterns among events is a key ability in human and machine perception, as it underlies intelligent decision making. We propose an approach for learning semantic relational set abstractions on videos, inspired by human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Alex Andonian , Camilo Fosco , Mathew Monfort , Allen Lee , Rogerio Feris , Carl Vondrick , Aude Oliva

Visual and auditory perception are two crucial ways humans experience the world. Text-to-video generation has made remarkable progress over the past year, but the absence of harmonious audio in generated video limits its broader…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yong Ren , Chenxing Li , Manjie Xu , Wei Liang , Yu Gu , Rilin Chen , Dong Yu

Applying image processing algorithms independently to each frame of a video often leads to undesired inconsistent results over time. Developing temporally consistent video-based extensions, however, requires domain knowledge for individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Wei-Sheng Lai , Jia-Bin Huang , Oliver Wang , Eli Shechtman , Ersin Yumer , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Temporal action segmentation is a topic of increasing interest, however, annotating each frame in a video is cumbersome and costly. Weakly supervised approaches therefore aim at learning temporal action segmentation from videos that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Mohsen Fayyaz , Juergen Gall

Pretext training followed by task-specific fine-tuning has been a successful approach in vision and language domains. This paper proposes a self-supervised pretext training framework tailored to event sequence data. We introduce a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Yimu Wang , He Zhao , Ruizhi Deng , Frederick Tung , Greg Mori

This paper proposes a novel algorithm which learns a formal regular grammar from real-world continuous data, such as videos. Learning latent terminals, non-terminals, and production rules directly from continuous data allows the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 AJ Piergiovanni , Anelia Angelova , Michael S. Ryoo

There is significant progress in recognizing traditional human activities from videos focusing on highly distinctive actions involving discriminative body movements, body-object and/or human-human interactions. Driver's activities are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Zachary Wharton , Ardhendu Behera , Yonghuai Liu , Nik Bessis

Perceiving meaningful activities in a long video sequence is a challenging problem due to ambiguous definition of 'meaningfulness' as well as clutters in the scene. We approach this problem by learning a generative model for regular motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Mahmudul Hasan , Jonghyun Choi , Jan Neumann , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury , Larry S. Davis

Event cameras are novel sensors that output brightness changes in the form of a stream of asynchronous "events" instead of intensity frames. They offer significant advantages with respect to conventional cameras: high dynamic range (HDR),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Daniel Gehrig , Mathias Gehrig , Javier Hidalgo-Carrió , Davide Scaramuzza

Event cameras deliver visual data with high temporal resolution, low latency, and minimal redundancy, yet their asynchronous, sparse sequential nature challenges standard tensor-based machine learning (ML). While the recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Haiqing Hao , Nikola Zubić , Weihua He , Zhipeng Sui , Davide Scaramuzza , Wenhui Wang

Event cameras have the ability to record continuous and detailed trajectories of objects with high temporal resolution, thereby providing intuitive motion cues for optical flow estimation. Nevertheless, most existing learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Haotian Liu , Guang Chen , Sanqing Qu , Yanping Zhang , Zhijun Li , Alois Knoll , Changjun Jiang

Language acquisition is the process of learning words from the surrounding scene. We introduce a meta-learning framework that learns how to learn word representations from unconstrained scenes. We leverage the natural compositional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Dídac Surís , Dave Epstein , Heng Ji , Shih-Fu Chang , Carl Vondrick

We introduce Latent Action Pretraining for general Action models (LAPA), an unsupervised method for pretraining Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models without ground-truth robot action labels. Existing Vision-Language-Action models require…

Audio-visual generalised zero-shot learning for video classification requires understanding the relations between the audio and visual information in order to be able to recognise samples from novel, previously unseen classes at test time.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Otniel-Bogdan Mercea , Thomas Hummel , A. Sophia Koepke , Zeynep Akata

The task of video grounding, which temporally localizes a natural language description in a video, plays an important role in understanding videos. Existing studies have adopted strategies of sliding window over the entire video or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Dongliang He , Xiang Zhao , Jizhou Huang , Fu Li , Xiao Liu , Shilei Wen

Human action recognition in long-term videos, characterized by complex backgrounds and subtle action differences, poses significant challenges for traditional deep learning models due to computational overhead, difficulty in capturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Kaining Li , Shuwei He , Zihan Xu

Pre-training vision-language representations on human action videos has emerged as a promising approach to reduce reliance on large-scale expert demonstrations for training embodied agents. However, prior methods often employ time…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Zhizhen Zhang , Lei Zhu , Zhen Fang , Zi Huang , Yadan Luo

The task of Video Question Answering (VideoQA) consists in answering natural language questions about a video and serves as a proxy to evaluate the performance of a model in scene sequence understanding. Most methods designed for VideoQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Theophile Sautory , Nuri Cingillioglu , Alessandra Russo

The rapid increase in video content production has resulted in enormous data volumes, creating significant challenges for efficient analysis and resource management. To address this, robust video analysis tools are essential. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Ulindu De Silva , Leon Fernando , Billy Lau Pik Lik , Zann Koh , Sam Conrad Joyce , Belinda Yuen , Chau Yuen

How are we able to learn about complex current events just from short snippets of video? While natural language enables straightforward ways to represent under-specified, partially observable events, visual data does not facilitate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Kate Sanders , Reno Kriz , David Etter , Hannah Recknor , Alexander Martin , Cameron Carpenter , Jingyang Lin , Benjamin Van Durme