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Recovering 4D human-object interaction (HOI) from monocular video is a key step toward scalable 3D content creation, embodied AI, and simulation-based learning. Recent methods can reconstruct temporally coherent human and object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yubo Zhao , Yujin Chai , Yunao Dong , Chengfeng Zhao , Zijiao Zeng , Yuan Liu , Chi-Keung Tang

In this paper, we discuss a framework for teaching bimanual manipulation tasks by imitation. To this end, we present a system and algorithms for learning compliant and contact-rich robot behavior from human demonstrations. The presented…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Simon Stepputtis , Maryam Bandari , Stefan Schaal , Heni Ben Amor

Action Detection is a complex task that aims to detect and classify human actions in video clips. Typically, it has been addressed by processing fine-grained features extracted from a video classification backbone. Recently, thanks to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Matteo Tomei , Lorenzo Baraldi , Simone Calderara , Simone Bronzin , Rita Cucchiara

Recent pose-transfer methods aim to generate temporally consistent and fully controllable videos of human action where the motion from a reference video is reenacted by a new identity. We evaluate three state-of-the-art pose-transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Vaclav Knapp , Matyas Bohacek

Several recent works have directly extended the image masked autoencoder (MAE) with random masking into video domain, achieving promising results. However, unlike images, both spatial and temporal information are important for video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 David Fan , Jue Wang , Shuai Liao , Yi Zhu , Vimal Bhat , Hector Santos-Villalobos , Rohith MV , Xinyu Li

While leveraging abundant human videos and simulated robot data poses a scalable solution to the scarcity of real-world robot data, the generalization capability of existing vision-language-action models (VLAs) remains limited by mismatches…

Synthesizing realistic human-object interactions (HOI) in video is challenging due to the complex, instance-specific interaction dynamics of both humans and objects. Incorporating controllability in video generation further adds to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Wanyue Zhang , Lin Geng Foo , Thabo Beeler , Rishabh Dabral , Christian Theobalt

Videos captured from multiple viewpoints can help in perceiving the 3D structure of the world and benefit computer vision tasks such as action recognition, tracking, etc. In this paper, we present a method for self-supervised learning from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Ketul Shah , Robert Crandall , Jie Xu , Peng Zhou , Marian George , Mayank Bansal , Rama Chellappa

Robotic motion generation methods using machine learning have been studied in recent years. Bilateral control-based imitation learning can imitate human motions using force information. By means of this method, variable speed motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Yuki Saigusa , Ayumu Sasagawa , Sho Sakaino , Toshiaki Tsuji

Current self-supervised approaches for skeleton action representation learning often focus on constrained scenarios, where videos and skeleton data are recorded in laboratory settings. When dealing with estimated skeleton data in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Di Yang , Yaohui Wang , Antitza Dantcheva , Lorenzo Garattoni , Gianpiero Francesca , Francois Bremond

Imitation learning has been applied to mimic the operation of a human cameraman in several autonomous cinematography systems. To imitate different filming styles, existing methods train multiple models, where each model handles a particular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Chong Huang , Yuanjie Dang , Peng Chen , Xin Yang , Kwang-Ting , Cheng

AI-based motion capture is an emerging technology that offers a cost-effective alternative to traditional motion capture systems. However, current AI motion capture methods rely entirely on observed video sequences, similar to conventional…

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In everyday life collaboration tasks between human operators and robots, the former necessitate simple ways for programming new skills, the latter have to show adaptive capabilities to cope with environmental changes. The joint use of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Rocco Felici , Matteo Saveriano , Loris Roveda , Antonio Paolillo

Derived from rapid advances in computer vision and machine learning, video analysis tasks have been moving from inferring the present state to predicting the future state. Vision-based action recognition and prediction from videos are such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Yu Kong , Yun Fu

Action recognition is a relatively established task, where givenan input sequence of human motion, the goal is to predict its ac-tion category. This paper, on the other hand, considers a relativelynew problem, which could be thought of as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Chuan Guo , Xinxin Zuo , Sen Wang , Shihao Zou , Qingyao Sun , Annan Deng , Minglun Gong , Li Cheng

Masked video modeling~(MVM) has emerged as a highly effective pre-training strategy for visual foundation models, whereby the model reconstructs masked spatiotemporal tokens using information from visible tokens. However, a key challenge in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Ayush K. Rai , Kyle Min , Tarun Krishna , Feiyan Hu , Alan F. Smeaton , Noel E. O'Connor

We present visual action prompts, a unified action representation for action-to-video generation of complex high-DoF interactions while maintaining transferable visual dynamics across domains. Action-driven video generation faces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yuang Wang , Chao Wen , Haoyu Guo , Sida Peng , Minghan Qin , Hujun Bao , Xiaowei Zhou , Ruizhen Hu

Human actions in videos are 3D signals. However, there are a few methods available for multiple human action recognition. For long videos, it's difficult to search within a video for a specific action and/or person. For that, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Noor Almaadeed , Omar Elharrouss , Somaya Al-Maadeed , Ahmed Bouridane , Azeddine Beghdadi

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…

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