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In this paper, we propose a global method for estimating the motion of a camera which films a static scene. Our approach is direct, fast and robust, and deals with adjacent frames of a sequence. It is based on a quadratic approximation of…

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We introduce a framework that predicts the goals behind observable human action in video. Motivated by evidence in developmental psychology, we leverage video of unintentional action to learn video representations of goals without direct…

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This paper presents a computationally efficient method for vehicle speed estimation from traffic camera footage. Building upon previous work that utilizes 3D bounding boxes derived from 2D detections and vanishing point geometry, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Andrej Macko , Lukáš Gajdošech , Viktor Kocur

We introduce latent intuitive physics, a transfer learning framework for physics simulation that can infer hidden properties of fluids from a single 3D video and simulate the observed fluid in novel scenes. Our key insight is to use latent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Xiangming Zhu , Huayu Deng , Haochen Yuan , Yunbo Wang , Xiaokang Yang

We propose a novel unsupervised approach based on a two-stage object-centric adversarial framework that only needs object regions for detecting frame-level local anomalies in videos. The first stage consists in learning the correspondence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Pankaj Raj Roy , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau , Lama Seoud

Video object detection is more challenging compared to image object detection. Previous works proved that applying object detector frame by frame is not only slow but also inaccurate. Visual clues get weakened by defocus and motion blur,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Congrui Hetang , Hongwei Qin , Shaohui Liu , Junjie Yan

Given a video of a person in action, we can easily guess the 3D future motion of the person. In this work, we present perhaps the first approach for predicting a future 3D mesh model sequence of a person from past video input. We do this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Jason Y. Zhang , Panna Felsen , Angjoo Kanazawa , Jitendra Malik

The ability to accurately predict the surrounding environment is a foundational principle of intelligence in biological and artificial agents. In recent years, a variety of approaches have been proposed for learning to predict the physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Alberto Cenzato , Alberto Testolin , Marco Zorzi

Gait analysis from videos obtained from a smartphone would open up many clinical opportunities for detecting and quantifying gait impairments. However, existing approaches for estimating gait parameters from videos can produce physically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Nikolaos Smyrnakis , Tasos Karakostas , R. James Cotton

In this paper, we teach a machine to discover the laws of physics from video streams. We assume no prior knowledge of physics, beyond a temporal stream of bounding boxes. The problem is very difficult because a machine must learn not only a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Pradyumna Chari , Chinmay Talegaonkar , Yunhao Ba , Achuta Kadambi

We propose an action-conditioned dynamics model that predicts scene changes caused by object and agent interactions in a viewpoint-invariant 3D neural scene representation space, inferred from RGB-D videos. In this 3D feature space, objects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Hsiao-Yu Fish Tung , Zhou Xian , Mihir Prabhudesai , Shamit Lal , Katerina Fragkiadaki

Video prediction is an extrapolation task that predicts future frames given past frames, and video frame interpolation is an interpolation task that estimates intermediate frames between two frames. We have witnessed the tremendous…

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Robotic manipulation requires anticipating how the environment evolves in response to actions, yet most existing systems lack this predictive capability, often resulting in errors and inefficiency. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs)…

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Video object segmentation is challenging yet important in a wide variety of applications for video analysis. Recent works formulate video object segmentation as a prediction task using deep nets to achieve appealing state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Yuan-Ting Hu , Jia-Bin Huang , Alexander G. Schwing

We study the problem of unsupervised physical object discovery. While existing frameworks aim to decompose scenes into 2D segments based off each object's appearance, we explore how physics, especially object interactions, facilitates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Yilun Du , Kevin Smith , Tomer Ulman , Joshua Tenenbaum , Jiajun Wu

We address an essential problem in computer vision, that of unsupervised object segmentation in video, where a main object of interest in a video sequence should be automatically separated from its background. An efficient solution to this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Emanuela Haller , Marius Leordeanu

We present a general framework and method for simultaneous detection and segmentation of an object in a video that moves (or comes into view of the camera) at some unknown time in the video. The method is an online approach based on motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-25 Dong Lao , Ganesh Sundaramoorthi

Extending state-of-the-art object detectors from image to video is challenging. The accuracy of detection suffers from degenerated object appearances in videos, e.g., motion blur, video defocus, rare poses, etc. Existing work attempts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Xizhou Zhu , Yujie Wang , Jifeng Dai , Lu Yuan , Yichen Wei

Inspired by the performance and scalability of autoregressive large language models (LLMs), transformer-based models have seen recent success in the visual domain. This study investigates a transformer adaptation for video prediction with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Dean L Slack , G Thomas Hudson , Thomas Winterbottom , Noura Al Moubayed

This paper proposes motion prediction in single still images by learning it from a set of videos. The building assumption is that similar motion is characterized by similar appearance. The proposed method learns local motion patterns given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Silvia L. Pintea , Jan C. van Gemert , Arnold W. M. Smeulders