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In this paper, we propose an HOI-aware adaptive network named AdaAct for weakly-supervised action segmentation. Most existing methods learn a fixed network to predict the action of each frame with the neighboring frames. However, this would…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Runzhong Zhang , Suchen Wang , Yueqi Duan , Yansong Tang , Yue Zhang , Yap-Peng Tan

Mobile manipulators are envisioned to serve more complex roles in people's everyday lives. With recent breakthroughs in large language models, task planners have become better at translating human verbal instructions into a sequence of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Xintong Du , Siqi Zhou , Angela P. Schoellig

Despite decades of research, understanding human manipulation activities is, and has always been, one of the most attractive and challenging research topics in computer vision and robotics. Recognition and prediction of observed human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Gamze Akyol , Sanem Sariel , Eren Erdal Aksoy

The abundance of instructional videos and their narrations over the Internet offers an exciting avenue for understanding procedural activities. In this work, we propose to learn video representation that encodes both action steps and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Yiwu Zhong , Licheng Yu , Yang Bai , Shangwen Li , Xueting Yan , Yin Li

This paper presents a novel method to predict future human activities from partially observed RGB-D videos. Human activity prediction is generally difficult due to its non-Markovian property and the rich context between human and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Siyuan Qi , Siyuan Huang , Ping Wei , Song-Chun Zhu

Action segmentation refers to inferring boundaries of semantically consistent visual concepts in videos and is an important requirement for many video understanding tasks. For this and other video understanding tasks, supervised approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 M. Saquib Sarfraz , Naila Murray , Vivek Sharma , Ali Diba , Luc Van Gool , Rainer Stiefelhagen

In this paper, we propose a machine learning approach for forecasting hierarchical time series. When dealing with hierarchical time series, apart from generating accurate forecasts, one needs to select a suitable method for producing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Paolo Mancuso , Veronica Piccialli , Antonio M. Sudoso

Identifying common patterns among events is a key ability in human and machine perception, as it underlies intelligent decision making. We propose an approach for learning semantic relational set abstractions on videos, inspired by human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Alex Andonian , Camilo Fosco , Mathew Monfort , Allen Lee , Rogerio Feris , Carl Vondrick , Aude Oliva

As we deploy reinforcement learning agents to solve increasingly challenging problems, methods that allow us to inject prior knowledge about the structure of the world and effective solution strategies becomes increasingly important. In…

We present a system that demonstrates how the compositional structure of events, in concert with the compositional structure of language, can interplay with the underlying focusing mechanisms in video action recognition, thereby providing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-29 N. Siddharth , Andrei Barbu , Jeffrey Mark Siskind

Humans abstract experiences into structured representations to facilitate pattern inference and knowledge transfer. While the hippocampal-entorhinal (HPC-MEC) circuit is known to represent both spatial and conceptual spaces, the mechanisms…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Tianqiu Zhang , Muyang Lyu , Xiao Liu , Si Wu

Latent Action Models (LAMs) enable learning from actionless data for applications ranging from robotic control to interactive world models. However, existing LAMs typically focus on short-horizon frame transitions and capture low-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Hanjung Kim , Lerrel Pinto , Seon Joo Kim

Human parsing is for pixel-wise human semantic understanding. As human bodies are underlying hierarchically structured, how to model human structures is the central theme in this task. Focusing on this, we seek to simultaneously exploit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Wenguan Wang , Hailong Zhu , Jifeng Dai , Yanwei Pang , Jianbing Shen , Ling Shao

'Actions' play a vital role in how humans interact with the world. Thus, autonomous agents that would assist us in everyday tasks also require the capability to perform 'Reasoning about Actions & Change' (RAC). This has been an important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Shailaja Keyur Sampat , Pratyay Banerjee , Yezhou Yang , Chitta Baral

Effective human behavior modeling requires a representation of the human body movement that capitalizes on its compositionality. We propose a hierarchical representation consisting of Action Atoms that capture the atomic joint movements and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Genki Kinoshita , Shu Nakamura , Ryo Kawahara , Shohei Nobuhara , Yasutomo Kawanishi , Ko Nishino

We propose a novel approach to improve action recognition by exploiting the hierarchical organization of actions and by incorporating contextualized textual information, including location and previous actions, to reflect the action's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Manuel Benavent-Lledo , David Mulero-Pérez , David Ortiz-Perez , Jose Garcia-Rodriguez , Antonis Argyros

In this paper, we propose an approach that spatially localizes the activities in a video frame where each person can perform multiple activities at the same time. Our approach takes the temporal scene context as well as the relations of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Sovan Biswas , Yaser Souri , Juergen Gall

Most of the existing works on human activity analysis focus on recognition or early recognition of the activity labels from complete or partial observations. Similarly, almost all of the existing video captioning approaches focus on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Tahmida Mahmud , Mohammad Billah , Mahmudul Hasan , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

Reconstructing human vision from brain activities has been an appealing task that helps to understand our cognitive process. Even though recent research has seen great success in reconstructing static images from non-invasive brain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Zijiao Chen , Jiaxin Qing , Juan Helen Zhou

Decision-making in complex, continuous multi-task environments is often hindered by the difficulty of obtaining accurate models for planning and the inefficiency of learning purely from trial and error. While precise environment dynamics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Jeff Jewett , Sandhya Saisubramanian