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This study explores the potential of open-source video conditional generation models as encoders for downstream tasks, focusing on instance segmentation using the BAIR Robot Pushing Dataset. The researchers propose using video prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 James Maier , Nishanth Mohankumar

In this work, we study self-supervised multiple object tracking without using any video-level association labels. We propose to cast the problem of multiple object tracking as learning the frame-wise associations between detections in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Fatemeh Azimi , Fahim Mannan , Felix Heide

Perceiving meaningful activities in a long video sequence is a challenging problem due to ambiguous definition of 'meaningfulness' as well as clutters in the scene. We approach this problem by learning a generative model for regular motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Mahmudul Hasan , Jonghyun Choi , Jan Neumann , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury , Larry S. Davis

This paper addresses the problem of automatically localizing dominant objects as spatio-temporal tubes in a noisy collection of videos with minimal or even no supervision. We formulate the problem as a combination of two complementary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-15 Suha Kwak , Minsu Cho , Ivan Laptev , Jean Ponce , Cordelia Schmid

Unsupervised learning of a generalizable model of the visual appearance of humans from video data is of major importance for computing systems interacting naturally with their users and others. We propose a step towards automatic behavior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Thomas Walther , Rolf P. Würtz

When labeled training data is scarce, a promising data augmentation approach is to generate visual features of unknown classes using their attributes. To learn the class conditional distribution of CNN features, these models rely on pairs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Yongqin Xian , Saurabh Sharma , Bernt Schiele , Zeynep Akata

Generalizable object manipulation skills are critical for intelligent and multi-functional robots to work in real-world complex scenes. Despite the recent progress in reinforcement learning, it is still very challenging to learn a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Hao Shen , Weikang Wan , He Wang

We address the problem of localisation of objects as bounding boxes in images with weak labels. This weakly supervised object localisation problem has been tackled in the past using discriminative models where each object class is localised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Zhiyuan Shi , Timothy M. Hospedales , Tao Xiang

A key challenge for an agent learning to interact with the world is to reason about physical properties of objects and to foresee their dynamics under the effect of applied forces. In order to scale learning through interaction to many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Iman Nematollahi , Oier Mees , Lukas Hermann , Wolfram Burgard

Deep learning has shown state-of-art classification performance on datasets such as ImageNet, which contain a single object in each image. However, multi-object classification is far more challenging. We present a unified framework which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Tejaswi Nimmagadda , Anima Anandkumar

Perceiving the shape and material of an object from a single image is inherently ambiguous, especially when lighting is unknown and unconstrained. Despite this, humans can often disentangle shape and material, and when they are uncertain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xinran Nicole Han , Ko Nishino , Todd Zickler

Perceiving the world in terms of objects and tracking them through time is a crucial prerequisite for reasoning and scene understanding. Recently, several methods have been proposed for unsupervised learning of object-centric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Marissa A. Weis , Kashyap Chitta , Yash Sharma , Wieland Brendel , Matthias Bethge , Andreas Geiger , Alexander S. Ecker

By pretraining to synthesize coherent images from perturbed inputs, generative models inherently learn to understand object boundaries and scene compositions. How can we repurpose these generative representations for general-purpose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Om Khangaonkar , Hamed Pirsiavash

Object Transfiguration replaces an object in an image with another object from a second image. For example it can perform tasks like "putting exactly those eyeglasses from image A on the nose of the person in image B". Usage of exemplar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Shuchang Zhou , Taihong Xiao , Yi Yang , Dieqiao Feng , Qinyao He , Weiran He

Well structured visual representations can make robot learning faster and can improve generalization. In this paper, we study how we can acquire effective object-centric representations for robotic manipulation tasks without human labeling…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Eric Jang , Coline Devin , Vincent Vanhoucke , Sergey Levine

Spatio-temporal scene graphs provide a principled representation for modeling evolving object interactions, yet existing methods remain fundamentally frame-centric: they reason only about currently visible objects, discard entities upon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Rohith Peddi , Saurabh , Shravan Shanmugam , Likhitha Pallapothula , Yu Xiang , Parag Singla , Vibhav Gogate

Unsupervised learning is a challenging task due to the lack of labels. Multiple Object Tracking (MOT), which inevitably suffers from mutual object interference, occlusion, etc., is even more difficult without label supervision. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Sha Meng , Dian Shao , Jiacheng Guo , Shan Gao

This paper addresses unsupervised few-shot object recognition, where all training images are unlabeled, and test images are divided into queries and a few labeled support images per object class of interest. The training and test images do…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Khoi Nguyen , Sinisa Todorovic

The availability of data is limited in some fields, especially for object detection tasks, where it is necessary to have correctly labeled bounding boxes around each object. A notable example of such data scarcity is found in the domain of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Matteo Paiano , Stefano Martina , Carlotta Giannelli , Filippo Caruso

Recent object detection systems rely on two critical steps: (1) a set of object proposals is predicted as efficiently as possible, and (2) this set of candidate proposals is then passed to an object classifier. Such approaches have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-02 Pedro O. Pinheiro , Ronan Collobert , Piotr Dollar