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From just a glance, humans can make rich predictions about the future state of a wide range of physical systems. On the other hand, modern approaches from engineering, robotics, and graphics are often restricted to narrow domains and…

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Anomaly detection in videos refers to the identification of events that do not conform to expected behavior. However, almost all existing methods tackle the problem by minimizing the reconstruction errors of training data, which cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Wen Liu , Weixin Luo , Dongze Lian , Shenghua Gao

As two of the five traditional human senses (sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch), vision and sound are basic sources through which humans understand the world. Often correlated during natural events, these two modalities combine to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Yipin Zhou , Zhaowen Wang , Chen Fang , Trung Bui , Tamara L. Berg

We introduce a novel self-supervised learning approach to learn representations of videos that are responsive to changes in the motion dynamics. Our representations can be learned from data without human annotation and provide a substantial…

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This work is in the field of video surveillance including motion detection. The video surveillance is one of essential techniques for automatic video analysis to extract crucial information or relevant scenes in video surveillance systems.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Larbi Guezouli , Hanane Belhani

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved strong results in video understanding, yet a key question remains: do they truly comprehend visual content or only learn shallow correlations between vision and language? Real visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zongxia Li , Xiyang Wu , Guangyao Shi , Yubin Qin , Hongyang Du , Fuxiao Liu , Tianyi Zhou , Dinesh Manocha , Jordan Lee Boyd-Graber

Inferring the physical properties of 3D scenes from visual information is a critical yet challenging task for creating interactive and realistic virtual worlds. While humans intuitively grasp material characteristics such as elasticity or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Long Le , Ryan Lucas , Chen Wang , Chuhao Chen , Dinesh Jayaraman , Eric Eaton , Lingjie Liu

Physical laws are a set of rules in the relationship between observations made by the experimenter. All these observations are made through a mechanism that links the external world to the experimenter's awareness, a mechanism which is not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-12 Hitoshi Inamori

We present a novel deep learning architecture for probabilistic future prediction from video. We predict the future semantics, geometry and motion of complex real-world urban scenes and use this representation to control an autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Anthony Hu , Fergal Cotter , Nikhil Mohan , Corina Gurau , Alex Kendall

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

As the intermediate-level representations bridging the two levels, structured representations of visual scenes, such as visual relationships between pairwise objects, have been shown to not only benefit compositional models in learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Meng-Jiun Chiou

In this dissertation, I present my work towards exploring temporal information for better video understanding. Specifically, I have worked on two problems: action recognition and semantic segmentation. For action recognition, I have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Yi Zhu

Learning and reasoning about physical phenomena is still a challenge in robotics development, and computational sciences play a capital role in the search for accurate methods able to provide explanations for past events and rigorous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Beatriz Moya , Alberto Badias , David Gonzalez , Francisco Chinesta , Elias Cueto

We propose a self-supervised visual learning method by predicting the variable playback speeds of a video. Without semantic labels, we learn the spatio-temporal visual representation of the video by leveraging the variations in the visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Hyeon Cho , Taehoon Kim , Hyung Jin Chang , Wonjun Hwang

The ability to discover physical laws and governing equations from data is one of humankind's greatest intellectual achievements. A quantitative understanding of dynamic constraints and balances in nature has facilitated rapid development…

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In this work, we aim to learn a unified vision-based policy for multi-fingered robot hands to manipulate a variety of objects in diverse poses. Though prior work has shown benefits of using human videos for policy learning, performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zerui Chen , Shizhe Chen , Etienne Arlaud , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

In recent years, many works have addressed the problem of finding never-seen-before anomalies in videos. Yet, most work has been focused on detecting anomalous frames in surveillance videos taken from security cameras. Meanwhile, the task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Laura Kart , Niv Cohen

Simulation of the dynamics of physical systems is essential to the development of both science and engineering. Recently there is an increasing interest in learning to simulate the dynamics of physical systems using neural networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Ce Yang , Weihao Gao , Di Wu , Chong Wang

Time-stamp aware anomaly detection in traffic videos is an essential task for the advancement of the intelligent transportation system. Anomaly detection in videos is a challenging problem due to sparse occurrence of anomalous events,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Kuldeep Marotirao Biradar , Ayushi Gupta , Murari Mandal , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi

With the ever-growing digital libraries and video databases, it is increasingly important to understand and mine the knowledge from video database automatically. Discovering association rules between items in a large video database plays a…

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