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Sounds originate from object motions and vibrations of surrounding air. Inspired by the fact that humans is capable of interpreting sound sources from how objects move visually, we propose a novel system that explicitly captures such motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Hang Zhao , Chuang Gan , Wei-Chiu Ma , Antonio Torralba

Learning meaningful visual representations in an embedding space can facilitate generalization in downstream tasks such as action segmentation and imitation. In this paper, we learn a motion-centric representation of surgical video…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Ajay Kumar Tanwani , Pierre Sermanet , Andy Yan , Raghav Anand , Mariano Phielipp , Ken Goldberg

Object manipulation actions represent an important share of the Activities of Daily Living (ADLs). In this work, we study how to enable service robots to use human multi-modal data to understand object manipulation actions, and how they can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Bahareh Abbasi , Ehsan Noohi , Sina Parastegari , Milos Zefran

A human is a thing that moves in space. Like all things that move in space, we can in principle use differential equations to describe their motion as a set of functions that maps time to position (and velocity, acceleration, and so on).…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-08-03 Gabriele De Luca , Thomas J. Lampoltshammer , Johannes Scholz

Text-based video segmentation aims to segment the target object in a video based on a describing sentence. Incorporating motion information from optical flow maps with appearance and linguistic modalities is crucial yet has been largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Wangbo Zhao , Kai Wang , Xiangxiang Chu , Fuzhao Xue , Xinchao Wang , Yang You

In this work, we bridge the gap between recent pose estimation and tracking work to develop a powerful method for robots to track objects in their surroundings. Motion-Nets use a segmentation model to segment the scene, and separate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Felix Leeb , Arunkumar Byravan , Dieter Fox

Motion Magnification (MM) is a collection of relative recent techniques within the realm of Image Processing. The main motivation of introducing these techniques in to support the human visual system to capture relevant displacements of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Nadaniela Egidi , Josephin Giacomini , Paolo Leonesi , Pierluigi Maponi , Federico Mearelli , Edin Trebovic

Recent progress in video diffusion models has markedly advanced character animation, which synthesizes motioned videos by animating a static identity image according to a driving video. Explicit methods represent motion using skeleton,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Zhufeng Xu , Xuan Gao , Feng-Lin Liu , Haoxian Zhang , Zhixue Fang , Yu-Kun Lai , Xiaoqiang Liu , Pengfei Wan , Lin Gao

Human motion is created by, and constrained by, our muscles. We take a first step at building computer vision methods that represent the internal muscle activity that causes motion. We present a new dataset, Muscles in Action (MIA), to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Mia Chiquier , Carl Vondrick

In this paper we present a formal computational framework for modeling manipulation actions. The introduced formalism leads to semantics of manipulation action and has applications to both observing and understanding human manipulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-12-07 Yezhou Yang , Yiannis Aloimonos , Cornelia Fermuller , Eren Erdal Aksoy

A fundamental problem in computer animation is that of realizing purposeful and realistic human movement given a sufficiently-rich set of motion capture clips. We learn data-driven generative models of human movement using autoregressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Hung Yu Ling , Fabio Zinno , George Cheng , Michiel van de Panne

Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) is a numerical method that seeks to fit timeseries data to a linear dynamical system. In doing so, DMD decomposes dynamic data into spatially coherent modes that evolve in time according to exponential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Marco Mignacca , Simone Brugiapaglia , Jason J. Bramburger

Both a good understanding of geometrical concepts and a broad familiarity with objects lead to our excellent perception of moving objects. The human ability to detect and segment moving objects works in the presence of multiple objects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Pia Bideau , Erik Learned-Miller , Cordelia Schmid , Karteek Alahari

Joint embedding (JE) is a way to encode multi-modal data into a vector space where text remains as the grounding key and other modalities like image are to be anchored with such keys. Meme is typically an image with embedded text onto it.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Nethra Gunti , Sathyanarayanan Ramamoorthy , Parth Patwa , Amitava Das

We present an imitation learning framework that extracts distinctive legged locomotion behaviors and transitions between them from unlabeled real-world motion data. By automatically discovering behavioral modes and mapping user steering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Dongho Kang , Jin Cheng , Fatemeh Zargarbashi , Taerim Yoon , Sungjoon Choi , Stelian Coros

Advanced motion models (4 or 6 parameters) are needed for a good representation of the motion experimented by the different objects contained in a sequence of images. If the image is split in very small blocks, then an accurate description…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-12 Marcos Faundez-Zanuy , Francesc Vallverdu-Bayes , Francesc Tarres-Ruiz

The task of text2motion is to generate human motion sequences from given textual descriptions, where the model explores diverse mappings from natural language instructions to human body movements. While most existing works are confined to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Kunhang Li , Yansong Feng

Motion estimation is one of the important procedures in the all video encoders. Most of the complexity of the video coder depends on the complexity of the motion estimation step. The original motion estimation algorithm has a remarkable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-14 Amin Banitalebi , Said Nader-Esfahani , Alireza Nasiri Avanaki

This paper introduces MotionGlot, a model that can generate motion across multiple embodiments with different action dimensions, such as quadruped robots and human bodies. By leveraging the well-established training procedures commonly used…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Sudarshan Harithas , Srinath Sridhar

Imagine sitting at your desk, looking at objects on it. You do not know their exact distances from your eye in meters, but you can immediately reach out and touch them. Instead of an externally defined unit, your sense of distance is tied…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Levi Burner , Cornelia Fermüller , Yiannis Aloimonos