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The recent success in human action recognition with deep learning methods mostly adopt the supervised learning paradigm, which requires significant amount of manually labeled data to achieve good performance. However, label collection is an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Junnan Li , Yongkang Wong , Qi Zhao , Mohan S. Kankanhalli

We present a generative framework for zero-shot action recognition where some of the possible action classes do not occur in the training data. Our approach is based on modeling each action class using a probability distribution whose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Ashish Mishra , Vinay Kumar Verma , M Shiva Krishna Reddy , Arulkumar S , Piyush Rai , Anurag Mittal

Standard methods for video recognition use large CNNs designed to capture spatio-temporal data. However, training these models requires a large amount of labeled training data, containing a wide variety of actions, scenes, settings and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 AJ Piergiovanni , Michael S. Ryoo

While there has been substantial progress in temporal action segmentation, the challenge to generalize to unseen views remains unaddressed. Hence, we define a protocol for unseen view action segmentation where camera views for evaluating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Emad Bahrami , Olga Zatsarynna , Gianpiero Francesca , Juergen Gall

Traditional multimodal learners find unified representations for tasks like visual question answering, but rely heavily on paired datasets. However, an overlooked yet potentially powerful question is: can one leverage auxiliary unpaired…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Sharut Gupta , Shobhita Sundaram , Chenyu Wang , Stefanie Jegelka , Phillip Isola

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) based on wearable inertial sensors plays a critical role in remote health monitoring. In patients with movement disorders, the ability to detect abnormal patient movements in their home environments can…

Despite the central role of action in embodied intelligence, learning transferable action representations from visual transitions remains a fundamental challenge, particularly when world models must generalize across embodiments under…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hongjia Liu , Fan Feng , Minghao Fu , Xinyue Wang , Haofei Lu , Biwei Huang

Facial Action Unit (AU) detection is a crucial task for emotion analysis from facial movements. The apparent differences of different subjects sometimes mislead changes brought by AUs, resulting in inaccurate results. However, most of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Jiyuan Cao , Zhilei Liu , Yong Zhang

What is the best way to learn a universal face representation? Recent work on Deep Learning in the area of face analysis has focused on supervised learning for specific tasks of interest (e.g. face recognition, facial landmark localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Adrian Bulat , Shiyang Cheng , Jing Yang , Andrew Garbett , Enrique Sanchez , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

The field of Abstract Visual Reasoning (AVR) encompasses a wide range of problems, many of which are inspired by human IQ tests. The variety of AVR tasks has resulted in state-of-the-art AVR methods being task-specific approaches.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Mikołaj Małkiński , Jacek Mańdziuk

Human activity recognition (HAR) based on multimodal sensors has become a rapidly growing branch of biometric recognition and artificial intelligence. However, how to fully mine multimodal time series data and effectively learn accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Jialiang Wang , Haotian Wei , Yi Wang , Shu Yang , Chi Li

Face recognition systems are usually faced with unseen domains in real-world applications and show unsatisfactory performance due to their poor generalization. For example, a well-trained model on webface data cannot deal with the ID vs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Jianzhu Guo , Xiangyu Zhu , Chenxu Zhao , Dong Cao , Zhen Lei , Stan Z. Li

Many real-world visual recognition use-cases can not directly benefit from state-of-the-art CNN-based approaches because of the lack of many annotated data. The usual approach to deal with this is to transfer a representation pre-learned on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Julien Girard , Youssef Tamaazousti , Hervé Le Borgne , Céline Hudelot

Cross view action recognition (CVAR) seeks to recognize a human action when observed from a previously unseen viewpoint. This is a challenging problem since the appearance of an action changes significantly with the viewpoint. Applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Yuexi Zhang , Dan Luo , Balaji Sundareshan , Octavia Camps , Mario Sznaier

Learning shared representations is a primary area of multimodal representation learning. The current approaches to achieve a shared embedding space rely heavily on paired samples from each modality, which are significantly harder to obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Amitai Yacobi , Nir Ben-Ari , Ronen Talmon , Uri Shaham

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is an important task in computer vision and has wide applications in human-computer interaction, intelligent security, emotion analysis, and other fields. However, the limited size of FER datasets limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Jun Yu , Zhongpeng Cai , Renda Li , Gongpeng Zhao , Guochen Xie , Jichao Zhu , Wangyuan Zhu

Human Action Recognition (HAR), one of the most important tasks in computer vision, has developed rapidly in the past decade and has a wide range of applications in health monitoring, intelligent surveillance, virtual reality, human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Zhou Shuchang

Unknown Object Detection (UOD) aims to identify objects of unseen categories, differing from the traditional detection paradigm limited by the closed-world assumption. A key component of UOD is learning a generalized representation, i.e.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Haomiao Liu , Hao Xu , Chuhuai Yue , Bo Ma

Despite the great advances in visual recognition, it has been witnessed that recognition models trained on clean images of common datasets are not robust against distorted images in the real world. To tackle this issue, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Taeyoung Son , Juwon Kang , Namyup Kim , Sunghyun Cho , Suha Kwak

Detecting action units (AUs) on human faces is challenging because various AUs make subtle facial appearance change over various regions at different scales. Current works have attempted to recognize AUs by emphasizing important regions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Chen Ma , Li Chen , Junhai Yong