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In this paper, we aim to model 3D scene geometry, appearance, and physical information just from dynamic multi-view videos in the absence of any human labels. By leveraging physics-informed losses as soft constraints or integrating simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Jinxi Li , Ziyang Song , Bo Yang

Automatically detecting vital signs in videos, such as the estimation of heart and respiration rates, is a challenging research problem in computer vision with important applications in the medical field. One of the key difficulties in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Florin Condrea , Victor-Andrei Ivan , Marius Leordeanu

The paper addresses the problem of motion saliency in videos, that is, identifying regions that undergo motion departing from its context. We propose a new unsupervised paradigm to compute motion saliency maps. The key ingredient is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 L. Maczyta , P. Bouthemy , O. Le Meur

We propose a self-supervised method for learning motion-focused video representations. Existing approaches minimize distances between temporally augmented videos, which maintain high spatial similarity. We instead propose to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Fida Mohammad Thoker , Hazel Doughty , Cees Snoek

We introduce latent intuitive physics, a transfer learning framework for physics simulation that can infer hidden properties of fluids from a single 3D video and simulate the observed fluid in novel scenes. Our key insight is to use latent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Xiangming Zhu , Huayu Deng , Haochen Yuan , Yunbo Wang , Xiaokang Yang

Complex and nonlinear dynamical systems often involve parameters that change with time, accurate tracking of which is essential to tasks such as state estimation, prediction, and control. Existing machine-learning methods require full state…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Zheng-Meng Zhai , Mohammadamin Moradi , Bryan Glaz , Mulugeta Haile , Ying-Cheng Lai

Predicting future video frames is a challenging task with many downstream applications. Previous work has shown that procedural knowledge enables deep models for complex dynamical settings, however their model ViPro assumed a given ground…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Patrick Takenaka , Johannes Maucher , Marco F. Huber

We present a novel architecture named Neural Physicist (NeurPhy) to learn physical dynamics directly from image sequences using deep neural networks. For any physical system, given the global system parameters, the time evolution of states…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Baocheng Zhu , Shijun Wang , James Zhang

We introduce a method for constructing reduced-order models directly from videos of dynamical systems. The method uses a non-intrusive tracking to isolate the motion of a user-selected part in the video of an autonomous dynamical system. In…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-06-14 Antony Yang , Joar Axås , Fanni Kádár , Gábor Stépán , George Haller

This paper proposes a novel pretext task to address the self-supervised video representation learning problem. Specifically, given an unlabeled video clip, we compute a series of spatio-temporal statistical summaries, such as the spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Jiangliu Wang , Jianbo Jiao , Linchao Bao , Shengfeng He , Wei Liu , Yun-hui Liu

In order to reach human performance on complexvisual tasks, artificial systems need to incorporate a sig-nificant amount of understanding of the world in termsof macroscopic objects, movements, forces, etc. Inspiredby work on intuitive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Ronan Riochet , Mario Ynocente Castro , Mathieu Bernard , Adam Lerer , Rob Fergus , Véronique Izard , Emmanuel Dupoux

We study the problem of unsupervised physical object discovery. While existing frameworks aim to decompose scenes into 2D segments based off each object's appearance, we explore how physics, especially object interactions, facilitates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Yilun Du , Kevin Smith , Tomer Ulman , Joshua Tenenbaum , Jiajun Wu

To reach human performance on complex tasks, a key ability for artificial systems is to understand physical interactions between objects, and predict future outcomes of a situation. This ability, often referred to as intuitive physics, has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Ronan Riochet , Josef Sivic , Ivan Laptev , Emmanuel Dupoux

Large-scale labeled data are generally required to train deep neural networks in order to obtain better performance in visual feature learning from images or videos for computer vision applications. To avoid extensive cost of collecting and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Longlong Jing , Yingli Tian

Modern video diffusion models excel at appearance synthesis but still struggle with physical consistency: objects drift, collisions lack realistic rebound, and material responses seldom match their underlying properties. We present PhyCo, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Sriram Narayanan , Ziyu Jiang , Srinivasa Narasimhan , Manmohan Chandraker

Deep neural networks are efficient learning machines which leverage upon a large amount of manually labeled data for learning discriminative features. However, acquiring substantial amount of supervised data, especially for videos can be a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Sujoy Paul , Sourya Roy , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

Unsupervised multi-object scene decomposition is a fast-emerging problem in representation learning. Despite significant progress in static scenes, such models are unable to leverage important dynamic cues present in video. We propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Polina Zablotskaia , Edoardo A. Dominici , Leonid Sigal , Andreas M. Lehrmann

Motions are reflected in videos as the movement of pixels, and actions are essentially patterns of inconsistent motions between the foreground and the background. To well distinguish the actions, especially those with complicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Ziyuan Huang , Shiwei Zhang , Jianwen Jiang , Mingqian Tang , Rong Jin , Marcelo Ang

Recently unsupervised learning of depth from videos has made remarkable progress and the results are comparable to fully supervised methods in outdoor scenes like KITTI. However, there still exist great challenges when directly applying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Junsheng Zhou , Yuwang Wang , Kaihuai Qin , Wenjun Zeng

The ability to accurately predict the surrounding environment is a foundational principle of intelligence in biological and artificial agents. In recent years, a variety of approaches have been proposed for learning to predict the physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Alberto Cenzato , Alberto Testolin , Marco Zorzi