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With recent advancements in video backbone architectures, combined with the remarkable achievements of large language models (LLMs), the analysis of long-form videos spanning tens of minutes has become both feasible and increasingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Yuxiao Chen , Jue Wang , Zhikang Zhang , Jingru Yi , Xu Zhang , Yang Zou , Zhaowei Cai , Jianbo Yuan , Xinyu Li , Hao Yang , Davide Modolo

The distribution of data in the world (eg, internet, etc.) significantly differs from the well-curated datasets and is often over-populated with samples from common categories. The algorithms designed for well-curated datasets perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Harsh Rangwani

The long-tailed distribution is a common phenomenon in the real world. Extracted large scale image datasets inevitably demonstrate the long-tailed property and models trained with imbalanced data can obtain high performance for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Konstantinos Panagiotis Alexandridis , Shan Luo , Anh Nguyen , Jiankang Deng , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Real-world datasets typically exhibit long-tailed (LT) distributions, where a few head classes dominate and many tail classes are severely underrepresented. While recent work shows that parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Masih Aminbeidokhti , Subhankar Roy , Eric Granger , Elisa Ricci , Marco Pedersoli

Videos capture events that typically contain multiple sequential, and simultaneous, actions even in the span of only a few seconds. However, most large-scale datasets built to train models for action recognition in video only provide a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Mathew Monfort , Bowen Pan , Kandan Ramakrishnan , Alex Andonian , Barry A McNamara , Alex Lascelles , Quanfu Fan , Dan Gutfreund , Rogerio Feris , Aude Oliva

The goal of this paper is to bypass the need for labelled examples in few-shot video understanding at run time. While proven effective, in many practical video settings even labelling a few examples appears unrealistic. This is especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Pengwan Yang , Yuki M. Asano , Pascal Mettes , Cees G. M. Snoek

The generalization gap on the long-tailed data sets is largely owing to most categories only occupying a few training samples. Decoupled training achieves better performance by training backbone and classifier separately. What causes the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Zhiwei Zhang

Long-tailed multi-label visual recognition poses a significant challenge, as images typically contain multiple labels with highly imbalanced class distributions, leading to biased models that favor head classes while underperforming on tail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Wei Tang , Zuo-Zheng Wang , Kun Zhang , Tong Wei , Min-Ling Zhang

The datasets used for Deep Neural Network training (e.g., ImageNet, MSCOCO, etc.) are often manually balanced across categories (classes) to facilitate learning of all the categories. This curation process is often expensive and requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Harsh Rangwani

While Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved substantial progress in video understanding, their application to long video reasoning is hindered by uniform frame sampling and static textual reasoning, which are inefficient and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Zefeng He , Xiaoye Qu , Yafu Li , Siyuan Huang , Daizong Liu , Yu Cheng

We present a new model to determine relative skill from long videos, through learnable temporal attention modules. Skill determination is formulated as a ranking problem, making it suitable for common and generic tasks. However, for long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Hazel Doughty , Walterio Mayol-Cuevas , Dima Damen

We propose L2T, an advancement of visual instruction tuning (VIT). While VIT equips Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) with promising multimodal capabilities, the current design choices for VIT often result in overfitting and shortcut learning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Zhihan Zhou , Feng Hong , Jiaan Luo , Jiangchao Yao , Dongsheng Li , Bo Han , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Recent advancements in large-scale video-language models have shown significant potential for real-time planning and detailed interactions. However, their high computational demands and the scarcity of annotated datasets limit their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yuxuan Wang , Yiqi Song , Cihang Xie , Yang Liu , Zilong Zheng

In this paper we introduce ViSiL, a Video Similarity Learning architecture that considers fine-grained Spatio-Temporal relations between pairs of videos -- such relations are typically lost in previous video retrieval approaches that embed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos , Symeon Papadopoulos , Ioannis Patras , Ioannis Kompatsiaris

With the rapid development of video Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), numerous benchmarks have been proposed to assess their video understanding capability. However, due to the lack of rich events in the videos, these datasets may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Yifan Du , Kun Zhou , Yuqi Huo , Yifan Li , Wayne Xin Zhao , Haoyu Lu , Zijia Zhao , Bingning Wang , Weipeng Chen , Ji-Rong Wen

This paper considers learning deep features from long-tailed data. We observe that in the deep feature space, the head classes and the tail classes present different distribution patterns. The head classes have a relatively large spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Jialun Liu , Yifan Sun , Chuchu Han , Zhaopeng Dou , Wenhui Li

Most existing object instance detection and segmentation models only work well on fairly balanced benchmarks where per-category training sample numbers are comparable, such as COCO. They tend to suffer performance drop on realistic datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Tao Wang , Yu Li , Bingyi Kang , Junnan Li , Junhao Liew , Sheng Tang , Steven Hoi , Jiashi Feng

In the few-shot scenario, a learner must effectively generalize to unseen classes given a small support set of labeled examples. While a relatively large amount of research has gone into few-shot learning for image classification, little…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Chris Careaga , Brian Hutchinson , Nathan Hodas , Lawrence Phillips

Effectively handling the co-occurrence of non-IID data and long-tailed distributions remains a critical challenge in federated learning. While fine-tuning vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP has shown to be promising in addressing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Shihao Hou , Xinyi Shang , Shreyank N Gowda , Yang Lu , Chao Wu , Yan Yan , Hanzi Wang

Human intelligence requires correctness and robustness, with the former being foundational for the latter. In video understanding, correctness ensures the accurate interpretation of visual content, and robustness maintains consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yuanhan Zhang , Yunice Chew , Yuhao Dong , Aria Leo , Bo Hu , Ziwei Liu