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We present Palm, a solution to the Long-Term Action Anticipation (LTA) task utilizing vision-language and large language models. Given an input video with annotated action periods, the LTA task aims to predict possible future actions. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Daoji Huang , Otmar Hilliges , Luc Van Gool , Xi Wang

Recent advancements in vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown promise in robotic manipulation, yet they continue to struggle with long-horizon, multi-step tasks. Existing methods lack internal reasoning mechanisms that can identify…

Generalizing beyond the training domain in image-based behavior cloning remains challenging. Existing methods address individual axes of generalization, workspace shifts, viewpoint changes, and cross-embodiment transfer, yet they are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Ruiyu Wang , Zheyu Zhuang , Danica Kragic , Florian T. Pokorny

The task of long-term action anticipation demands solutions that can effectively model temporal dynamics over extended periods while deeply understanding the inherent semantics of actions. Traditional approaches, which primarily rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Binglu Wang , Yao Tian , Shunzhou Wang , Le Yang

The ability to anticipate human-object interactions is highly desirable in an intelligent assistive system in order to guide users during daily life activities and understand their short and long-term goals. Creating systems with such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Daniele Materia , Francesco Ragusa , Giovanni Maria Farinella

Egocentric action anticipation consists in understanding which objects the camera wearer will interact with in the near future and which actions they will perform. We tackle the problem proposing an architecture able to anticipate actions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Antonino Furnari , Giovanni Maria Farinella

Accurate prediction of human behavior is crucial for AI systems to effectively support real-world applications, such as autonomous robots anticipating and assisting with human tasks. Real-world scenarios frequently present challenges such…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Kojiro Takeyama , Yimeng Liu , Misha Sra

Active learning (AL) seeks to reduce annotation costs by selecting the most informative samples for labeling, making it particularly valuable in resource-constrained settings. However, traditional evaluation methods, which focus solely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Julia Machnio , Mads Nielsen , Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi

Accurately predicting human behaviors is crucial for mobile robots operating in human-populated environments. While prior research primarily focuses on predicting actions in single-human scenarios from an egocentric view, several robotic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Utsav Panchal , Yuchen Liu , Luigi Palmieri , Ilche Georgievski , Marco Aiello

A robot in a human-centric environment needs to account for the human's intent and future motion in its task and motion planning to ensure safe and effective operation. This requires symbolic reasoning about probable future actions and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Moritz A. Graule , Volkan Isler

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

In egocentric scenarios, anticipating both the next action and its visual outcome is essential for understanding human-object interactions and for enabling robotic planning. However, existing paradigms fall short of jointly modeling these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Binjie Zhang , Mike Zheng Shou

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown great success as foundational models for downstream vision and natural language applications in a variety of domains. However, these models are limited to reasoning over objects and actions currently…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Zachary Chavis , Hyun Soo Park , Stephen J. Guy

Planning is an important capability of artificial agents that perform long-horizon tasks in real-world environments. In this work, we explore the use of pre-trained language models (PLMs) to reason about plan sequences from text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Anthony Z. Liu , Lajanugen Logeswaran , Sungryull Sohn , Honglak Lee

Action anticipation, the task of predicting future actions from partially observed videos, is crucial for advancing intelligent systems. Unlike action recognition, which operates on fully observed videos, action anticipation must handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Seulgi Kim , Ghazal Kaviani , Mohit Prabhushankar , Ghassan AlRegib

Symbolic planners can discover a sequence of actions from initial to goal states given expert-defined, domain-specific logical action semantics. Large Language Models (LLMs) can directly generate such sequences, but limitations in reasoning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Wang Zhu , Ishika Singh , Robin Jia , Jesse Thomason

We introduce LEAP (illustrated in Figure 1), a novel method for generating video-grounded action programs through use of a Large Language Model (LLM). These action programs represent the motoric, perceptual, and structural aspects of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Eadom Dessalene , Michael Maynord , Cornelia Fermüller , Yiannis Aloimonos

How can we predict future interaction trajectories of human hands in a scene given high-level colloquial task specifications in the form of natural language? In this paper, we extend the classic hand trajectory prediction task to two tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Chen Bao , Jiarui Xu , Xiaolong Wang , Abhinav Gupta , Homanga Bharadhwaj

We explore leveraging large multi-modal models (LMMs) and text2image models to build a more general embodied agent. LMMs excel in planning long-horizon tasks over symbolic abstractions but struggle with grounding in the physical world,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Zhirui Fang , Ming Yang , Weishuai Zeng , Boyu Li , Junpeng Yue , Ziluo Ding , Xiu Li , Zongqing Lu

Video procedure planning, i.e., planning a sequence of action steps given the video frames of start and goal states, is an essential ability for embodied AI. Recent works utilize Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate enriched action step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Dejie Yang , Zijing Zhao , Yang Liu
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