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The canonical approach to video action recognition dictates a neural model to do a classic and standard 1-of-N majority vote task. They are trained to predict a fixed set of predefined categories, limiting their transferable ability on new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Mengmeng Wang , Jiazheng Xing , Yong Liu

We propose a soft attention based model for the task of action recognition in videos. We use multi-layered Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) units which are deep both spatially and temporally. Our model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Shikhar Sharma , Ryan Kiros , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

In this paper we address the problem of automatically discovering atomic actions in unsupervised manner from instructional videos. Instructional videos contain complex activities and are a rich source of information for intelligent agents,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 AJ Piergiovanni , Anelia Angelova , Michael S. Ryoo , Irfan Essa

Recognizing human actions based on videos has became one of the most popular areas of research in computer vision in recent years. This area has many applications such as surveillance, robotics, health care, video search and human-computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Aytekin Nebisoy , Saber Malekzadeh

A critical need in assistive robotics, such as assistive wheelchairs for navigation, is a need to learn task intent and safety guarantees through user interactions in order to ensure safe task performance. For tasks where the objectives…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Ahalya Prabhakar , Aude Billard

Zero-shot action recognition is challenging due to the semantic gap between seen and unseen classes. We present a novel framework that enhances CLIP with disentangled embeddings and semantic-guided interaction. A Motion Separation Module…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yiming Wang , Frederick W. B. Li , Jingyun Wang

Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across various visual tasks, leveraging joint learning of visual and textual representations. While these models excel in zero-shot image tasks, their application to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Massimo Bosetti , Shibingfeng Zhang , Benedetta Liberatori , Giacomo Zara , Elisa Ricci , Paolo Rota

Human action recognition in videos is a critical task with significant implications for numerous applications, including surveillance, sports analytics, and healthcare. The challenge lies in creating models that are both precise in their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yufei Xie

In principle, zero-shot learning makes it possible to train a recognition model simply by specifying the category's attributes. For example, with classifiers for generic attributes like \emph{striped} and \emph{four-legged}, one can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Dinesh Jayaraman , Kristen Grauman

In the field of scene text spotting, previous OCR methods primarily relied on image encoders and pre-trained text information, but they often overlooked the advantages of incorporating human language instructions. To address this gap, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Chen Duan , Qianyi Jiang , Pei Fu , Jiamin Chen , Shengxi Li , Zining Wang , Shan Guo , Junfeng Luo

Given an untrimmed video and a language query depicting a specific temporal moment in the video, video grounding aims to localize the time interval by understanding the text and video simultaneously. One of the most challenging issues is an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Dahye Kim , Jungin Park , Jiyoung Lee , Seongheon Park , Kwanghoon Sohn

Human action recognition has been an important topic in computer vision due to its many applications such as video surveillance, human machine interaction and video retrieval. One core problem behind these applications is automatically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Guangchun Cheng , Yiwen Wan , Abdullah N. Saudagar , Kamesh Namuduri , Bill P. Buckles

Intuition might suggest that motion and dynamic information are key to video-based action recognition. In contrast, there is evidence that state-of-the-art deep-learning video understanding architectures are biased toward static information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Filip Ilic , Thomas Pock , Richard P. Wildes

With the recent renaissance of deep convolution neural networks, encouraging breakthroughs have been achieved on the supervised recognition tasks, where each class has sufficient training data and fully annotated training data. However, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Yanwei Fu , Tao Xiang , Yu-Gang Jiang , Xiangyang Xue , Leonid Sigal , Shaogang Gong

Humans and animals are capable of learning a new behavior by observing others perform the skill just once. We consider the problem of allowing a robot to do the same -- learning from a raw video pixels of a human, even when there is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Tianhe Yu , Chelsea Finn , Annie Xie , Sudeep Dasari , Tianhao Zhang , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine

Recent advances in one-shot imitation learning have enabled robots to acquire new manipulation skills from a single human demonstration. While existing methods achieve strong performance on single-step tasks, they remain limited in their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Vijja Wichitwechkarn , Emlyn Williams , Charles Fox , Ruchi Choudhary

In computer vision, action recognition refers to the act of classifying an action that is present in a given video and action detection involves locating actions of interest in space and/or time. Videos, which contain photometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-02 Soo Min Kang , Richard P. Wildes

This work introduces a model that can recognize objects in images even if no training data is available for the objects. The only necessary knowledge about the unseen categories comes from unsupervised large text corpora. In our zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-03-21 Richard Socher , Milind Ganjoo , Hamsa Sridhar , Osbert Bastani , Christopher D. Manning , Andrew Y. Ng

State-of-the-art temporal action detectors inefficiently search the entire video for specific actions. Despite the encouraging progress these methods achieve, it is crucial to design automated approaches that only explore parts of the video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Humam Alwassel , Fabian Caba Heilbron , Bernard Ghanem

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Dave Epstein , Carl Vondrick