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We present two designs for an analog circuit that can learn to detect a temporal sequence of two inputs. The training phase is done by feeding the circuit with the desired sequence and, after the training is completed, each time the trained…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Jan Hohenheim , Zhaoyu Devon Liu , Tommaso Stecconi , Pietro Palopoli

Understanding and distinguishing temporal patterns in time series data is essential for scientific discovery and decision-making. For example, in biomedical research, uncovering meaningful patterns in physiological signals can improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yu-Chia Huang , Juntong Chen , Dongyu Liu , Kwan-Liu Ma

In event-based sensing, many sensors independently and asynchronously emit events when there is a change in their input. Event-based sensing can present significant improvements in power efficiency when compared to traditional sampling,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Karen Adam , Adam Scholefield , Martin Vetterli

Understanding temporal information and how the visual world changes over time is a fundamental ability of intelligent systems. In video understanding, temporal information is at the core of many current challenges, including compression,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Laura Sevilla-Lara , Shengxin Zha , Zhicheng Yan , Vedanuj Goswami , Matt Feiszli , Lorenzo Torresani

As event-based sensing gains in popularity, theoretical understanding is needed to harness this technology's potential. Instead of recording video by capturing frames, event-based cameras have sensors that emit events when their inputs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-10 Karen Adam , Adam Scholefield , Martin Vetterli

Multi-node optical clock networks will enable future studies of fundamental physics and enable applications in quantum and classical communications as well as navigation and geodesy. We implement the first ever multi-node optical clock…

State-of-the-art computer vision approaches rely on huge amounts of annotated data. The collection of such data is a time consuming process since it is mainly performed by humans. The literature shows that semi-automatic annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Jonas Jäger , Gereon Reus , Joachim Denzler , Viviane Wolff , Klaus Fricke-Neuderth

Time becomes visible through illumination changes in what we see. Inspired by this, in this paper we explore the potential to learn time awareness from static images, trying to answer: *what time tells us?* To this end, we first introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Dongheng Lin , Han Hu , Jianbo Jiao

In this work we present a novel internal clock based space-time neural network for motion speed recognition. The developed system has a spike train encoder, a Spiking Neural Network (SNN) with internal clocking behaviors, a pattern…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Junwen Luo , Jiaoyan Chen

Active learning of timed languages is concerned with the inference of timed automata from observed timed words. The agent can query for the membership of words in the target language, or propose a candidate model and verify its equivalence…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Léo Henry , Nicolas Markey , Thierry Jéron

Video large language models have achieved remarkable performance in tasks such as video question answering, however, their temporal understanding remains suboptimal. To address this limitation, we curate a dedicated instruction fine-tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Yunxiao Wang , Meng Liu , Wenqi Liu , Xuemeng Song , Bin Wen , Fan Yang , Tingting Gao , Di Zhang , Guorui Zhou , Liqiang Nie

The objective of this work is to annotate sign instances across a broad vocabulary in continuous sign language. We train a Transformer model to ingest a continuous signing stream and output a sequence of written tokens on a large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Gül Varol , Liliane Momeni , Samuel Albanie , Triantafyllos Afouras , Andrew Zisserman

Neural networks need big annotated datasets for training. However, manual annotation can be too expensive or even unfeasible for certain tasks, like multi-person 2D pose estimation with severe occlusions. A remedy for this is synthetic data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-05 David T. Hoffmann , Dimitrios Tzionas , Micheal J. Black , Siyu Tang

We propose a method for generating a temporally remapped video that matches the desired target duration while maximally preserving natural video dynamics. Our approach trains a neural network through self-supervision to recognize and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Simon Jenni , Markus Woodson , Fabian Caba Heilbron

In this paper, we teach machines to understand visuals and natural language by learning the mapping between sentences and noisy video snippets without explicit annotations. Firstly, we define a self-supervised learning framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Yujie Zhong , Linhai Xie , Sen Wang , Lucia Specia , Yishu Miao

The objective of this paper is audio-visual synchronisation of general videos 'in the wild'. For such videos, the events that may be harnessed for synchronisation cues may be spatially small and may occur only infrequently during a many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Vladimir Iashin , Weidi Xie , Esa Rahtu , Andrew Zisserman

Deep learning has rapidly transformed the state of the art algorithms used to address a variety of problems in computer vision and robotics. These breakthroughs have relied upon massive amounts of human annotated training data. This time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Matthew Johnson-Roberson , Charles Barto , Rounak Mehta , Sharath Nittur Sridhar , Karl Rosaen , Ram Vasudevan

In many manufacturing settings, annotating data for machine learning and computer vision is costly, but synthetic data can be generated at significantly lower cost. Substituting the real-world data with synthetic data is therefore appealing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Lukas Malte Kemeter , Rasmus Hvingelby , Paulina Sierak , Tobias Schön , Bishwajit Gosswam

We present a new visualization of the proper-time elapsed along an observer's worldline. By supplementing worldlines with light clocks, the measurement of space-time intervals is reduced to the "counting of ticks." The resulting space-time…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Roberto B. Salgado

The goal of this work is to temporally align asynchronous subtitles in sign language videos. In particular, we focus on sign-language interpreted TV broadcast data comprising (i) a video of continuous signing, and (ii) subtitles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Hannah Bull , Triantafyllos Afouras , Gül Varol , Samuel Albanie , Liliane Momeni , Andrew Zisserman