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The field of video generation has expanded significantly in recent years, with controllable and compositional video generation garnering considerable interest. Most methods rely on leveraging annotations such as text, objects' bounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Aram Davtyan , Sepehr Sameni , Björn Ommer , Paolo Favaro

Given a series of natural language descriptions, our task is to generate 3D human motions that correspond semantically to the text, and follow the temporal order of the instructions. In particular, our goal is to enable the synthesis of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Nikos Athanasiou , Mathis Petrovich , Michael J. Black , Gül Varol

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms can use high-capacity deep networks to learn directly from image observations. However, these high-dimensional observation spaces present a number of challenges in practice, since the policy must…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Alex X. Lee , Anusha Nagabandi , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine

Multimodal human action understanding is a significant problem in computer vision, with the central challenge being the effective utilization of the complementarity among diverse modalities while maintaining model efficiency. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Hongsong Wang , Heng Fei , Bingxuan Dai , Jie Gui

Action recognition from videos, i.e., classifying a video into one of the pre-defined action types, has been a popular topic in the communities of artificial intelligence, multimedia, and signal processing. However, existing methods usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Xiaodong Chen , Xinchen Liu , Wu Liu , Kun Liu , Dong Wu , Yongdong Zhang , Tao Mei

While the shortage of explicit action data limits Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, human action videos offer a scalable yet unlabeled data source. A critical challenge in utilizing large-scale human video datasets lies in transforming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Dujun Nie , Fengjiao Chen , Qi Lv , Jun Kuang , Xiaoyu Li , Xuezhi Cao , Xunliang Cai

Skeleton-based action recognition is vital for comprehending human-centric videos and has applications in diverse domains. One of the challenges of skeleton-based action recognition is dealing with low-quality data, such as skeletons that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Cuiwei Liu , Youzhi Jiang , Chong Du , Zhaokui Li

The recent successes in applying deep learning techniques to solve standard computer vision problems has aspired researchers to propose new computer vision problems in different domains. As previously established in the field, training data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Mehran Khodabandeh , Hamid Reza Vaezi Joze , Ilya Zharkov , Vivek Pradeep

The ability to identify and temporally segment fine-grained actions in motion capture sequences is crucial for applications in human movement analysis. Motion capture is typically performed with optical or inertial measurement systems,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Benjamin Filtjens , Bart Vanrumste , Peter Slaets

Long video understanding presents challenges due to the inherent high computational complexity and redundant temporal information. An effective representation for long videos must efficiently process such redundancy while preserving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Lan Wang , Yujia Chen , Du Tran , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti , Wen-Sheng Chu

Latent actions serve as an intermediate representation that enables consistent modeling of vision-language-action (VLA) models across heterogeneous datasets. However, approaches to supervising VLAs with latent actions are fragmented and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yihan Lin , Haoyang Li , Yang Li , Haitao Shen , Yihan Zhao , Chao Shao , Jing Zhang

We present a novel unsupervised framework to unlock vast unlabeled human demonstration data from continuous industrial video streams for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model pre-training. Our method first trains a lightweight motion tokenizer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jiajie Zhang , Sören Schwertfeger , Alexander Kleiner

Current state-of-the-art methods for skeleton-based action recognition are supervised and rely on labels. The reliance is limiting the performance due to the challenges involved in annotation and mislabeled data. Unsupervised methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Jingyuan Li , Eli Shlizerman

Despite rapid advances in video generative models, robust metrics for evaluating visual and temporal correctness of complex human actions remain elusive. Critically, existing pure-vision encoders and Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Xavier Thomas , Youngsun Lim , Ananya Srinivasan , Audrey Zheng , Deepti Ghadiyaram

Finding compact representation of videos is an essential component in almost every problem related to video processing or understanding. In this paper, we propose a generative model to learn compact latent codes that can efficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Rakib Hyder , M. Salman Asif

Symmetric bi-manual manipulation is an essential skill in on-orbit operations due to its potent load capacity. Previous works have applied compliant control to maintain the stability of manipulations. However, traditional methods have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Yuxue Cao , Wenbo Zhao , Shengjie Wang , Xiang Zheng , Wenke Ma , Zhaolei Wang , Tao Zhang

We introduce Compositional Imitation Learning and Execution (CompILE): a framework for learning reusable, variable-length segments of hierarchically-structured behavior from demonstration data. CompILE uses a novel unsupervised,…

Recent works in video prediction have mainly focused on passive forecasting and low-level action-conditional prediction, which sidesteps the learning of interaction between agents and objects. We introduce the task of semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Wei Yu , Wenxin Chen , Songhenh Yin , Steve Easterbrook , Animesh Garg

There exist a wide range of intra class variations of the same actions and inter class similarity among the actions, at the same time, which makes the action recognition in videos very challenging. In this paper, we present a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Chhavi Dhiman , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma , Paras Aggarwal

Humans perceive actions through key transitions that structure actions across multiple abstraction levels, whereas machines, relying on visual features, tend to over-segment. This highlights the difficulty of enabling hierarchical reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Junxian Huang , Ruichu Cai , Hao Zhu , Juntao Fang , Boyan Xu , Weilin Chen , Zijian Li , Shenghua Gao