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Existing datasets for manually labelled query-based video summarization are costly and thus small, limiting the performance of supervised deep video summarization models. Self-supervision can address the data sparsity challenge by using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Jia-Hong Huang , Luka Murn , Marta Mrak , Marcel Worring

The core of video understanding tasks, such as recognition, captioning, and tracking, is to automatically detect objects or actions in a video and analyze their temporal evolution. Despite sharing a common goal, different tasks often rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Junke Wang , Dongdong Chen , Chong Luo , Bo He , Lu Yuan , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

This paper strives for action recognition and detection in video modalities like RGB, depth maps or 3D-skeleton sequences when only limited modality-specific labeled examples are available. For the RGB, and derived optical-flow, modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Fida Mohammad Thoker , Cees G. M. Snoek

Large-scale vision-language pre-training has achieved significant performance in multi-modal understanding and generation tasks. However, existing methods often perform poorly on image-text matching tasks that require structured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Yufeng Huang , Jiji Tang , Zhuo Chen , Rongsheng Zhang , Xinfeng Zhang , Weijie Chen , Zeng Zhao , Zhou Zhao , Tangjie Lv , Zhipeng Hu , Wen Zhang

Instructional video generation is an emerging task that aims to synthesize coherent demonstrations of procedural activities from textual descriptions. Such capability has broad implications for content creation, education, and human-AI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Cheeun Hong , German Barquero , Fadime Sener , Markos Georgopoulos , Edgar Schönfeld , Stefan Popov , Yuming Du , Oscar Mañas , Albert Pumarola

The effective communication of procedural knowledge remains a significant challenge in natural language processing (NLP), as purely textual instructions often fail to convey complex physical actions and spatial relationships. We address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jing Bi , Pinxin Liu , Ali Vosoughi , Jiarui Wu , Jinxi He , Chenliang Xu

Procedural planning aims to predict a sequence of actions that transforms an initial visual state into a desired goal, a fundamental ability for intelligent agents operating in complex environments. Existing approaches typically rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Luigi Seminara , Davide Moltisanti , Antonino Furnari

Surgical video-language pretraining (VLP) faces unique challenges due to the knowledge domain gap and the scarcity of multi-modal data. This study aims to bridge the gap by addressing issues regarding textual information loss in surgical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Kun Yuan , Vinkle Srivastav , Nassir Navab , Nicolas Padoy

Skill assessment in procedural videos is crucial for the objective evaluation of human performance in settings such as manufacturing and procedural daily tasks. Current research on skill assessment has predominantly focused on sports and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Michele Mazzamuto , Daniele Di Mauro , Gianpiero Francesca , Giovanni Maria Farinella , Antonino Furnari

Designing learning-based no-reference (NR) video quality assessment (VQA) algorithms for camera-captured videos is cumbersome due to the requirement of a large number of human annotations of quality. In this work, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-01 Shankhanil Mitra , Saiyam Jogani , Rajiv Soundararajan

Weakly supervised video anomaly detection (WSVAD) is a challenging task. Generating fine-grained pseudo-labels based on weak-label and then self-training a classifier is currently a promising solution. However, since the existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Zhiwei Yang , Jing Liu , Peng Wu

In this work, we study the problem of how to leverage instructional videos to facilitate the understanding of human decision-making processes, focusing on training a model with the ability to plan a goal-directed procedure from real-world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Jiankai Sun , De-An Huang , Bo Lu , Yun-Hui Liu , Bolei Zhou , Animesh Garg

Procedure Planning in instructional videos entails generating a sequence of action steps based on visual observations of the initial and target states. Despite the rapid progress in this task, there remain several critical challenges to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Ali Zare , Yulei Niu , Hammad Ayyubi , Shih-fu Chang

Procedure planning requires a model to predict a sequence of actions that transform a start visual observation into a goal in instructional videos. While most existing methods rely primarily on visual observations as input, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Lei Shi , Victor Aregbede , Andreas Persson , Martin Längkvist , Amy Loutfi , Stephanie Lowry

Procedural texts help AI enhance reasoning about context and action sequences. Transforming these into Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) improves understanding of individual steps by identifying predicate-argument structure like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Anil Batra , Laura Sevilla-Lara , Marcus Rohrbach , Frank Keller

Panoptic Scene Graph Generation (PSG) aims to generate a comprehensive graph-structure representation based on panoptic segmentation masks. Despite remarkable progress in PSG, almost all existing methods neglect the importance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Hanrong Shi , Lin Li , Jun Xiao , Yueting Zhuang , Long Chen

Purpose: In curriculum learning, the idea is to train on easier samples first and gradually increase the difficulty, while in self-paced learning, a pacing function defines the speed to adapt the training progress. While both methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Mobarakol Islam , Lalithkumar Seenivasan , S. P. Sharan , V. K. Viekash , Bhavesh Gupta , Ben Glocker , Hongliang Ren

Vision-language models are pre-trained by aligning image-text pairs in a common space to deal with open-set visual concepts. To boost the transferability of the pre-trained models, recent works adopt fixed or learnable prompts, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Jiangmeng Li , Wenyi Mo , Wenwen Qiang , Bing Su , Changwen Zheng , Hui Xiong , Ji-Rong Wen

Learning to localize temporal boundaries of procedure steps in instructional videos is challenging due to the limited availability of annotated large-scale training videos. Recent works focus on learning the cross-modal alignment between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Yuxiao Chen , Kai Li , Wentao Bao , Deep Patel , Yu Kong , Martin Renqiang Min , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Self-supervised learning is an effective way for label-free model pre-training, especially in the video domain where labeling is expensive. Existing self-supervised works in the video domain use varying experimental setups to demonstrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Akash Kumar , Ashlesha Kumar , Vibhav Vineet , Yogesh Singh Rawat