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Forecasting a typical object's future motion is a critical task for interpreting and interacting with dynamic environments in computer vision. Event-based sensors, which could capture changes in the scene with exceptional temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Song Wu , Zhiyu Zhu , Junhui Hou , Guangming Shi , Jinjian Wu

We present ActionPlan, a unified motion diffusion framework that bridges real-time streaming with high-quality offline generation within a single model. The core idea is to introduce a per-frame action plan: the model predicts frame-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Eric Nazarenus , Chuqiao Li , Yannan He , Xianghui Xie , Jan Eric Lenssen , Gerard Pons-Moll

Temporal abstraction and efficient planning pose significant challenges in offline reinforcement learning, mainly when dealing with domains that involve temporally extended tasks and delayed sparse rewards. Existing methods typically plan…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Wenhao Li

We provide an overview of the diffusion model as a method to generate new samples. Generative models have been recently adopted for tasks such as art generation (Stable Diffusion, Dall-E) and text generation (ChatGPT). Diffusion models in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-13 Justin Le

Denoising diffusion models represent a recent emerging topic in computer vision, demonstrating remarkable results in the area of generative modeling. A diffusion model is a deep generative model that is based on two stages, a forward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Florinel-Alin Croitoru , Vlad Hondru , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Mubarak Shah

In real-life conversations, the content is diverse, and there exists the one-to-many problem that requires diverse generation. Previous studies attempted to introduce discrete or Gaussian-based continuous latent variables to address the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Jianxiang Xiang , Zhenhua Liu , Haodong Liu , Yin Bai , Jia Cheng , Wenliang Chen

Efficient online decision-making in contextual bandits is challenging, as methods without informative priors often suffer from computational or statistical inefficiencies. In this work, we leverage pre-trained diffusion models as expressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Imad Aouali

This paper addresses the challenge of text-conditioned streaming motion generation, which requires us to predict the next-step human pose based on variable-length historical motions and incoming texts. Existing methods struggle to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Lixing Xiao , Shunlin Lu , Huaijin Pi , Ke Fan , Liang Pan , Yueer Zhou , Ziyong Feng , Xiaowei Zhou , Sida Peng , Jingbo Wang

Diffusion models offer stable training and state-of-the-art performance for deep generative modeling tasks. Here, we consider their use in the context of multivariate subsurface modeling and probabilistic inversion. We first demonstrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Roberto Miele , Niklas Linde

With the success of deep learning methods in analyzing activities in videos, more attention has recently been focused towards anticipating future activities. However, most of the work on anticipation either analyzes a partially observed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Yazan Abu Farha , Qiuhong Ke , Bernt Schiele , Juergen Gall

Egocentric action anticipation is the task of predicting the future actions a camera wearer will likely perform based on past video observations. While in a real-world system it is fundamental to output such predictions before the action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Antonino Furnari , Giovanni Maria Farinella

Automatically reasoning about future human behaviors is a difficult problem but has significant practical applications to assistive systems. Part of this difficulty stems from learning systems' inability to represent all kinds of behaviors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Jiaqi Guan , Ye Yuan , Kris M. Kitani , Nicholas Rhinehart

We study the problem of future step anticipation in procedural videos. Given a video of an ongoing procedural activity, we predict a plausible next procedure step described in rich natural language. While most previous work focus on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Mohamed Ashraf Abdelsalam , Samrudhdhi B. Rangrej , Isma Hadji , Nikita Dvornik , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Afsaneh Fazly

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative models in the text-to-image domain. This paper studies their application as observation-to-action models for imitating human behaviour in sequential environments. Human behaviour is…

Diffusion models have attracted a lot of attention in recent years. These models view speech generation as a continuous-time process. For efficient training, this process is typically restricted to additive Gaussian noising, which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Xiaozhou Tan , Minghui Zhao , Anton Ragni

Action anticipation involves predicting future actions having observed the initial portion of a video. Typically, the observed video is processed as a whole to obtain a video-level representation of the ongoing activity in the video, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Megha Nawhal , Akash Abdu Jyothi , Greg Mori

Anticipating future actions in videos is challenging, as the observed frames provide only evidence of past activities, requiring the inference of latent intentions to predict upcoming actions. Existing transformer-based approaches, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Tsung-Ming Tai , Sofia Casarin , Andrea Pilzer , Werner Nutt , Oswald Lanz

The ability to anticipate possible future human actions is essential for a wide range of applications, including autonomous driving and human-robot interaction. Consequently, numerous methods have been introduced for action anticipation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zeyun Zhong , Manuel Martin , Michael Voit , Juergen Gall , Jürgen Beyerer

Anticipating future actions based on spatiotemporal observations is essential in video understanding and predictive computer vision. Moreover, a model capable of anticipating the future has important applications, it can benefit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Tsung-Ming Tai , Giuseppe Fiameni , Cheng-Kuang Lee , Simon See , Oswald Lanz

While diffusion models can successfully generate data and make predictions, they are predominantly designed for static images. We propose an approach for efficiently training diffusion models for probabilistic spatiotemporal forecasting,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Salva Rühling Cachay , Bo Zhao , Hailey Joren , Rose Yu