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Understanding visual reality involves acquiring common-sense knowledge about countless regularities in the visual world, e.g., how illumination alters the appearance of objects in a scene, and how motion changes their apparent spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Filip Piekniewski , Patryk Laurent , Csaba Petre , Micah Richert , Dimitry Fisher , Todd Hylton

Unsupervised learning of a generalizable model of the visual appearance of humans from video data is of major importance for computing systems interacting naturally with their users and others. We propose a step towards automatic behavior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Thomas Walther , Rolf P. Würtz

Understanding how images of objects and scenes behave in response to specific ego-motions is a crucial aspect of proper visual development, yet existing visual learning methods are conspicuously disconnected from the physical source of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Dinesh Jayaraman , Kristen Grauman

Unsupervised image-to-image translation is a recently proposed task of translating an image to a different style or domain given only unpaired image examples at training time. In this paper, we formulate a new task of unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Dina Bashkirova , Ben Usman , Kate Saenko

Computer simulation models are widely used to study complex physical systems. A related fundamental topic is the inverse problem, also called calibration, which aims at learning about the values of parameters in the model based on…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-01-03 Yang Li , Shifeng Xiong

Common-sense physical reasoning is an essential ingredient for any intelligent agent operating in the real-world. For example, it can be used to simulate the environment, or to infer the state of parts of the world that are currently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Sjoerd van Steenkiste , Michael Chang , Klaus Greff , Jürgen Schmidhuber

In this paper, we aim to model 3D scene geometry, appearance, and the underlying physics purely from multi-view videos. By applying various governing PDEs as PINN losses or incorporating physics simulation into neural networks, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jinxi Li , Ziyang Song , Siyuan Zhou , Bo Yang

This paper introduces a novel method for self-supervised video representation learning via feature prediction. In contrast to the previous methods that focus on future feature prediction, we argue that a supervisory signal arising from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Nadine Behrmann , Juergen Gall , Mehdi Noroozi

Learning causal relationships in high-dimensional data (images, videos) is a hard task, as they are often defined on low dimensional manifolds and must be extracted from complex signals dominated by appearance, lighting, textures and also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Steeven Janny , Fabien Baradel , Natalia Neverova , Madiha Nadri , Greg Mori , Christian Wolf

The ability to extrapolate dynamic 3D scenes beyond the observed timeframe is fundamental to advancing physical world understanding and predictive modeling. Existing dynamic 3D reconstruction methods have achieved high-fidelity rendering of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jinsheng Quan , Qiaowei Miao , Yichao Xu , Zizhuo Lin , Ying Li , Wei Yang , Zhihui Li , Yawei Luo

When we humans look at a video of human-object interaction, we can not only infer what is happening but we can even extract actionable information and imitate those interactions. On the other hand, current recognition or geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Kiana Ehsani , Shubham Tulsiani , Saurabh Gupta , Ali Farhadi , Abhinav Gupta

We propose a new approach to learn to segment multiple image objects without manual supervision. The method can extract objects form still images, but uses videos for supervision. While prior works have considered motion for segmentation, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Laurynas Karazija , Subhabrata Choudhury , Iro Laina , Christian Rupprecht , Andrea Vedaldi

Physics-based differentiable rendering has emerged as a powerful technique in computer graphics and vision, with a broad range of applications in solving inverse rendering tasks. At its core, differentiable rendering enables the computation…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Yunfan Zeng , Guangyan Cai , Shuang Zhao

Many current methods to learn intuitive physics are based on interaction networks and similar approaches. However, they rely on information that has proven difficult to estimate directly from image data in the past. We aim to narrow this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Michael Kissner , Helmut Mayer

The ability to detect and track objects in the visual world is a crucial skill for any intelligent agent, as it is a necessary precursor to any object-level reasoning process. Moreover, it is important that agents learn to track objects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Eric Crawford , Joelle Pineau

In this work, we propose an end-to-end graph network that learns forward and inverse models of particle-based physics using interpretable inductive biases. Physics-informed neural networks are often engineered to solve specific problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Sakthi Kumar Arul Prakash , Conrad Tucker

Understanding physical phenomena is a key competence that enables humans and animals to act and interact under uncertain perception in previously unseen environments containing novel objects and their configurations. In this work, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Wenbin Li , Aleš Leonardis , Jeannette Bohg , Mario Fritz

Supervised machine learning involves approximating an unknown functional relationship from a limited dataset of features and corresponding labels. The classical approach to feature-based machine learning typically relies on applying linear…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-25 Margherita Lampani , Sabrina Guastavino , Michele Piana , Federico Benvenuto

We demonstrate model-based, visual robot manipulation of linear deformable objects. Our approach is based on a state-space representation of the physical system that the robot aims to control. This choice has multiple advantages, including…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Mengyuan Yan , Yilin Zhu , Ning Jin , Jeannette Bohg

We investigate the emergence of intuitive physics understanding in general-purpose deep neural network models trained to predict masked regions in natural videos. Leveraging the violation-of-expectation framework, we find that video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Quentin Garrido , Nicolas Ballas , Mahmoud Assran , Adrien Bardes , Laurent Najman , Michael Rabbat , Emmanuel Dupoux , Yann LeCun