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Humans can leverage hierarchical structures to split a task into sub-tasks and solve problems efficiently. Both imitation and reinforcement learning or a combination of them with hierarchical structures have been proven to be an efficient…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Yaru Niu , Yijun Gu

Interaction modeling is important for video action analysis. Recently, several works design specific structures to model interactions in videos. However, their structures are manually designed and non-adaptive, which require structures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Haoxin Li , Wei-Shi Zheng , Yu Tao , Haifeng Hu , Jian-Huang Lai

We have witnessed impressive advances in video action understanding. Increased dataset sizes, variability, and computation availability have enabled leaps in performance and task diversification. Current systems can provide coarse- and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Alexandros Stergiou , Ronald Poppe

Hierarchical learning (HL) is key to solving complex sequential decision problems with long horizons and sparse rewards. It allows learning agents to break-up large problems into smaller, more manageable subtasks. A common approach to HL,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Garrett Andersen , Peter Vrancx , Haitham Bou-Ammar

Visual interactivity understanding within visual scenes presents a significant challenge in computer vision. Existing methods focus on complex interactivities while leveraging a simple relationship model. These methods, however, struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Trong-Thuan Nguyen , Pha Nguyen , Khoa Luu

Hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) improves the efficiency of long-horizon reinforcement-learning tasks with sparse rewards by decomposing the task into a hierarchy of subgoals. The main challenge of HRL is efficient discovery of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Sadegh Khorasani , Saber Salehkaleybar , Negar Kiyavash , Matthias Grossglauser

With the broad growth of video capturing devices and applications on the web, it is more demanding to provide desired video content for users efficiently. Video summarization facilitates quickly grasping video content by creating a compact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Mayu Otani , Yale Song , Yang Wang

Hierarchical image recognition seeks to predict class labels along a semantic taxonomy, from broad categories to specific ones, typically under the tidy assumption that every training image is fully annotated along its taxonomy path.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Seulki Park , Zilin Wang , Stella X. Yu

Our objective in this work is fine-grained classification of actions in untrimmed videos, where the actions may be temporally extended or may span only a few frames of the video. We cast this into a query-response mechanism, where each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Chuhan Zhang , Ankush Gupta , Andrew Zisserman

The task of video prediction and generation is known to be notoriously difficult, with the research in this area largely limited to short-term predictions. Though plagued with noise and stochasticity, videos consist of features that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Alexey Zakharov , Qinghai Guo , Zafeirios Fountas

Despite the rapid progress, existing works on action understanding focus strictly on one type of action agent, which we call actor---a human adult, ignoring the diversity of actions performed by other actors. To overcome this narrow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Chenliang Xu , Caiming Xiong , Jason J. Corso

Hierarchical structures of motion exist across research fields, including computer vision, graphics, and robotics, where complex dynamics typically arise from coordinated interactions among simpler motion components. Existing methods to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Cheng Zheng , William Koch , Baiang Li , Felix Heide

Machine learning is the dominant approach to artificial intelligence, through which computers learn from data and experience. In the framework of supervised learning, a necessity for a computer to learn from data accurately and efficiently…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-25 Amir R. Asadi

We propose a soft attention based model for the task of action recognition in videos. We use multi-layered Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) units which are deep both spatially and temporally. Our model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Shikhar Sharma , Ryan Kiros , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Despite advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), current approaches struggle in medium-to-long video understanding due to frame and context length limitations. As a result, these models often depend on frame sampling, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Shehreen Azad , Vibhav Vineet , Yogesh Singh Rawat

The real world exhibits rich structure and detail across many scales of observation. It is difficult, however, to capture and represent a broad spectrum of scales using ordinary images. We devise a novel paradigm for learning a…

The articulated and complex nature of human actions makes the task of action recognition difficult. One approach to handle this complexity is dividing it to the kinetics of body parts and analyzing the actions based on these partial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-03 Amir Shahroudy , Gang Wang , Tian-Tsong Ng , Qingxiong Yang

Humans easily recognize object parts and their hierarchical structure by watching how they move; they can then predict how each part moves in the future. In this paper, we propose a novel formulation that simultaneously learns a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Zhenjia Xu , Zhijian Liu , Chen Sun , Kevin Murphy , William T. Freeman , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Jiajun Wu

Human recognition of the actions of other humans is very efficient and is based on patterns of movements. Our theoretical starting point is that the dynamics of the joint movements is important to action categorization. On the basis of this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Zahra Gharaee , Peter Gärdenfors , Magnus Johnsson

In this paper, we test the hypothesis that interesting events in unstructured videos are inherently audiovisual. We combine deep image representations for object recognition and scene understanding with representations from an audiovisual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Karel Mundnich , Alexandra Fenster , Aparna Khare , Shiva Sundaram