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We present an unsupervised representation learning approach that compactly encodes the motion dependencies in videos. Given a pair of images from a video clip, our framework learns to predict the long-term 3D motions. To reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Zelun Luo , Boya Peng , De-An Huang , Alexandre Alahi , Li Fei-Fei

In this paper, we propose a novel learning scheme for self-supervised video representation learning. Motivated by how humans understand videos, we propose to first learn general visual concepts then attend to discriminative local areas for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Rui Qian , Shuangrui Ding , Xian Liu , Dahua Lin

Current state-of-the-art classification and detection algorithms rely on supervised training. In this work we study unsupervised feature learning in the context of temporally coherent video data. We focus on feature learning from unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-17 Ross Goroshin , Joan Bruna , Jonathan Tompson , David Eigen , Yann LeCun

Learning to predict scene depth from RGB inputs is a challenging task both for indoor and outdoor robot navigation. In this work we address unsupervised learning of scene depth and robot ego-motion where supervision is provided by monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Vincent Casser , Soeren Pirk , Reza Mahjourian , Anelia Angelova

Unsupervised physical parameter estimation from video lacks a common benchmark: existing methods evaluate on non-overlapping synthetic data, the sole real-world dataset is restricted to single-body systems, and no established protocol…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Rasul Khanbayov , Mohamed Rayan Barhdadi , Erchin Serpedin , Hasan Kurban

Learning causal relationships in high-dimensional data (images, videos) is a hard task, as they are often defined on low dimensional manifolds and must be extracted from complex signals dominated by appearance, lighting, textures and also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Steeven Janny , Fabien Baradel , Natalia Neverova , Madiha Nadri , Greg Mori , Christian Wolf

Data-driven character animation based on motion capture can produce highly naturalistic behaviors and, when combined with physics simulation, can provide for natural procedural responses to physical perturbations, environmental changes, and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Xue Bin Peng , Angjoo Kanazawa , Jitendra Malik , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine

When enough annotated training data is available, supervised deep-learning algorithms excel at estimating human body pose and shape using a single camera. The effects of too little such data being available can be mitigated by using other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Andrey Davydov , Alexey Sidnev , Artsiom Sanakoyeu , Yuhua Chen , Mathieu Salzmann , Pascal Fua

We study the task of predicting dynamic physical properties from videos. More specifically, we consider physical properties that require temporal information to be inferred: elasticity of a bouncing object, viscosity of a flowing liquid,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Guanqi Zhan , Xianzheng Ma , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

In this paper, we aim to jointly model the geometry, appearance, and physical information of 3D scenes solely from dynamic multi-view videos, without relying on any physical priors. Existing works typically employ physical losses merely as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Nengbo Lu , Bin Zhao

We present an unsupervised learning framework for the task of monocular depth and camera motion estimation from unstructured video sequences. We achieve this by simultaneously training depth and camera pose estimation networks using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Tinghui Zhou , Matthew Brown , Noah Snavely , David G. Lowe

We propose a self-supervised approach for learning representations and robotic behaviors entirely from unlabeled videos recorded from multiple viewpoints, and study how this representation can be used in two robotic imitation settings:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Pierre Sermanet , Corey Lynch , Yevgen Chebotar , Jasmine Hsu , Eric Jang , Stefan Schaal , Sergey Levine

For visual estimation of optical flow, a crucial function for many vision tasks, unsupervised learning, using the supervision of view synthesis has emerged as a promising alternative to supervised methods, since ground-truth flow is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Zitang Sun , Shin'ya Nishida , Zhengbo Luo

This paper proposes a weakly-supervised learning framework for dynamics estimation from human motion. Although there are many solutions to capture pure human motion readily available, their data is not sufficient to analyze quality and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Petrissa Zell , Bodo Rosenhahn , Bastian Wandt

Data-driven learning approaches for physics simulation, sometimes referred to as world models, have emerged as promising alternatives to traditional physics simulators due to their differentiable nature. Prior work has demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Chanho Kim , Suhas V. Sumukh , Li Fuxin

Unsupervised methods have showed promising results on monocular depth estimation. However, the training data must be captured in scenes without moving objects. To push the envelope of accuracy, recent methods tend to increase their model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Tak-Wai Hui

Action-labeled data for robotics is scarce and expensive, limiting the generalization of learned policies. In contrast, vast amounts of action-free video data are readily available, but translating these observations into effective policies…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Jeremy A. Collins , Loránd Cheng , Kunal Aneja , Albert Wilcox , Benjamin Joffe , Animesh Garg

Current state-of-the-art classification and detection algorithms rely on supervised training. In this work we study unsupervised feature learning in the context of temporally coherent video data. We focus on feature learning from unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-09 Ross Goroshin , Joan Bruna , Jonathan Tompson , David Eigen , Yann LeCun

Inference on unknown quantities in dynamical systems via observational data is essential for providing meaningful insight, furnishing accurate predictions, enabling robust control, and establishing appropriate designs for future…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-02-06 M. Chung , M. Binois , R. B. Gramacy , D. J. Moquin , A. P. Smith , A. M. Smith

We address the challenging problem of jointly inferring the 3D flow and volumetric densities moving in a fluid from a monocular input video with a deep neural network. Despite the complexity of this task, we show that it is possible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Aleksandra Franz , Barbara Solenthaler , Nils Thuerey