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We present an approach to labeling short video clips with English verbs as event descriptions. A key distinguishing aspect of this work is that it labels videos with verbs that describe the spatiotemporal interaction between event…

We collected a new dataset that includes approximately eight hours of audiovisual recordings of a group of students and their self-evaluation scores for classroom engagement. The dataset and data analysis scripts are available on our…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Alpay Sabuncuoglu , T. Metin Sezgin

Precisely naming the action depicted in a video can be a challenging and oftentimes ambiguous task. In contrast to object instances represented as nouns (e.g. dog, cat, chair, etc.), in the case of actions, human annotators typically lack a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Kiyoon Kim , Davide Moltisanti , Oisin Mac Aodha , Laura Sevilla-Lara

Is it possible to guess human action from dialogue alone? In this work we investigate the link between spoken words and actions in movies. We note that movie screenplays describe actions, as well as contain the speech of characters and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Arsha Nagrani , Chen Sun , David Ross , Rahul Sukthankar , Cordelia Schmid , Andrew Zisserman

We address the problem of accurate capture and expressive modelling of interactive behaviors happening between two persons in daily scenarios. Different from previous works which either only consider one person or focus on conversational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yinghao Huang , Leo Ho , Dafei Qin , Mingyi Shi , Taku Komura

We address the task of text translation on the How2 dataset using a state of the art transformer-based multimodal approach. The question we ask ourselves is whether visual features can support the translation process, in particular, given…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Zixiu Wu , Julia Ive , Josiah Wang , Pranava Madhyastha , Lucia Specia

The Meta Video Dataset (MetaVD) provides annotated relations between action classes in major datasets for human action recognition in videos. Although these annotated relations enable dataset augmentation, it is only applicable to those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Yuya Yoshikawa , Yutaro Shigeto , Masashi Shimbo , Akikazu Takeuchi

Understanding the semantics of human movement -- the what, how and why of the movement -- is an important problem that requires datasets of human actions with semantic labels. Existing datasets take one of two approaches. Large-scale video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Abhinanda R. Punnakkal , Arjun Chandrasekaran , Nikos Athanasiou , Alejandra Quiros-Ramirez , Michael J. Black

Linking human motion and natural language is of great interest for the generation of semantic representations of human activities as well as for the generation of robot activities based on natural language input. However, while there have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-10 Matthias Plappert , Christian Mandery , Tamim Asfour

This paper addresses the gap in predicting turn-taking and backchannel actions in human-machine conversations using multi-modal signals (linguistic, acoustic, and visual). To overcome the limitation of existing datasets, we propose an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yuxin Lin , Yinglin Zheng , Ming Zeng , Wangzheng Shi

Humans observe various actions being performed by other humans (physically or in videos/images) and can draw a wide range of inferences about it beyond what they can visually perceive. Such inferences include determining the aspects of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Shailaja Keyur Sampat , Yezhou Yang , Chitta Baral

Multimodal systems have great potential to assist humans in procedural activities, where people follow instructions to achieve their goals. Despite diverse application scenarios, systems are typically evaluated on traditional classification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Kimihiro Hasegawa , Wiradee Imrattanatrai , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Masaki Asada , Susan Holm , Yuran Wang , Ken Fukuda , Teruko Mitamura

This paper introduces a new challenge and datasets to foster research toward designing systems that can understand medical videos and provide visual answers to natural language questions. We believe medical videos may provide the best…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Deepak Gupta , Kush Attal , Dina Demner-Fushman

Creating and labelling datasets of videos for use in training Human Activity Recognition models is an arduous task. In this paper, we approach this by using 3D rendering tools to generate a synthetic dataset of videos, and show that a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Ollie Matthews , Koki Ryu , Tarun Srivastava

An image is worth a thousand words, conveying information that goes beyond the physical visual content therein. In this paper, we study the intent behind social media images with an aim to analyze how visual information can help the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Menglin Jia , Zuxuan Wu , Austin Reiter , Claire Cardie , Serge Belongie , Ser-Nam Lim

Multimodal intent recognition is a significant task for understanding human language in real-world multimodal scenes. Most existing intent recognition methods have limitations in leveraging the multimodal information due to the restrictions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Hanlei Zhang , Hua Xu , Xin Wang , Qianrui Zhou , Shaojie Zhao , Jiayan Teng

We describe the 2020 edition of the DeepMind Kinetics human action dataset, which replenishes and extends the Kinetics-700 dataset. In this new version, there are at least 700 video clips from different YouTube videos for each of the 700…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Lucas Smaira , João Carreira , Eric Noland , Ellen Clancy , Amy Wu , Andrew Zisserman

Cutting-edge robot learning techniques including foundation models and imitation learning from humans all pose huge demands on large-scale and high-quality datasets which constitute one of the bottleneck in the general intelligent robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Shuo Jiang , Haonan Li , Ruochen Ren , Yanmin Zhou , Zhipeng Wang , Bin He

A new large-scale video dataset for human action recognition, called STAIR Actions is introduced. STAIR Actions contains 100 categories of action labels representing fine-grained everyday home actions so that it can be applied to research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Yuya Yoshikawa , Jiaqing Lin , Akikazu Takeuchi

Assembly101 is a new procedural activity dataset featuring 4321 videos of people assembling and disassembling 101 "take-apart" toy vehicles. Participants work without fixed instructions, and the sequences feature rich and natural variations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Fadime Sener , Dibyadip Chatterjee , Daniel Shelepov , Kun He , Dipika Singhania , Robert Wang , Angela Yao