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Because of the rich dynamical structure of videos and their ubiquity in everyday life, it is a natural idea that video data could serve as a powerful unsupervised learning signal for training visual representations in deep neural networks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Chengxu Zhuang , Tianwei She , Alex Andonian , Max Sobol Mark , Daniel Yamins

Video representation learning has seen tremendous progress in recent years. This has been driven by many factors, including the scale of training and the success of visual models trained contrastively with language. While these factors have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Mantas Skackauskas , Xinyue Hao , Laura Sevilla-Lara

Pre-training produces representations that are effective for a wide range of downstream tasks, but it is still unclear what properties of pre-training are necessary for effective gains. Notably, recent work shows that even pre-training on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Yuhuai Wu , Felix Li , Percy Liang

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

The objective of this paper is self-supervised learning from video, in particular for representations for action recognition. We make the following contributions: (i) We propose a new architecture and learning framework Memory-augmented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Tengda Han , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

Recent advances in deep learning have significantly increased the performance of face recognition systems. The performance and reliability of these models depend heavily on the amount and quality of the training data. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Adam Kortylewski , Andreas Schneider , Thomas Gerig , Bernhard Egger , Andreas Morel-Forster , Thomas Vetter

Although synthetic training data has been shown to be beneficial for tasks such as human pose estimation, its use for RGB human action recognition is relatively unexplored. Our goal in this work is to answer the question whether synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Gül Varol , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid , Andrew Zisserman

Event cameras excel at high-speed, low-power, and high-dynamic-range scene perception. However, as they fundamentally record only relative intensity changes rather than absolute intensity, the resulting data streams suffer from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Gang Xu , Zhiyu Zhu , Junhui Hou

Several recent works have directly extended the image masked autoencoder (MAE) with random masking into video domain, achieving promising results. However, unlike images, both spatial and temporal information are important for video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 David Fan , Jue Wang , Shuai Liao , Yi Zhu , Vimal Bhat , Hector Santos-Villalobos , Rohith MV , Xinyu Li

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

Video stabilization plays a central role to improve videos quality. However, despite the substantial progress made by these methods, they were, mainly, tested under standard weather and lighting conditions, and may perform poorly under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Abdulrahman Kerim , Washington L. S. Ramos , Leandro Soriano Marcolino , Erickson R. Nascimento , Richard Jiang

Understanding how images of objects and scenes behave in response to specific ego-motions is a crucial aspect of proper visual development, yet existing visual learning methods are conspicuously disconnected from the physical source of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Dinesh Jayaraman , Kristen Grauman

This paper presents TCE: Temporally Coherent Embeddings for self-supervised video representation learning. The proposed method exploits inherent structure of unlabeled video data to explicitly enforce temporal coherency in the embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Joshua Knights , Ben Harwood , Daniel Ward , Anthony Vanderkop , Olivia Mackenzie-Ross , Peyman Moghadam

Natural videos provide rich visual contents for self-supervised learning. Yet most existing approaches for learning spatio-temporal representations rely on manually trimmed videos, leading to limited diversity in visual patterns and limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Zhiwu Qing , Shiwei Zhang , Ziyuan Huang , Yi Xu , Xiang Wang , Mingqian Tang , Changxin Gao , Rong Jin , Nong Sang

Current video representations heavily rely on learning from manually annotated video datasets which are time-consuming and expensive to acquire. We observe videos are naturally accompanied by abundant text information such as YouTube titles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Tianhao Li , Limin Wang

In order to perform unconditional video generation, we must learn the distribution of the real-world videos. In an effort to synthesize high-quality videos, various studies attempted to learn a mapping function between noise and videos,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Kangyeol Kim , Sunghyun Park , Junsoo Lee , Joonseok Lee , Sookyung Kim , Jaegul Choo , Edward Choi

This paper presents Probabilistic Video Contrastive Learning, a self-supervised representation learning method that bridges contrastive learning with probabilistic representation. We hypothesize that the clips composing the video have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Jungin Park , Jiyoung Lee , Ig-Jae Kim , Kwanghoon Sohn

Masked video modeling (MVM) has emerged as a simple and scalable self-supervised pretraining paradigm, but only encodes motion information implicitly, limiting the encoding of temporal dynamics in the learned representations. As a result,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Renaud Vandeghen , Fida Mohammad Thoker , Marc Van Droogenbroeck , Bernard Ghanem

We capitalize on large amounts of unlabeled video in order to learn a model of scene dynamics for both video recognition tasks (e.g. action classification) and video generation tasks (e.g. future prediction). We propose a generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Carl Vondrick , Hamed Pirsiavash , Antonio Torralba

Learning with neural networks from a continuous stream of visual information presents several challenges due to the non-i.i.d. nature of the data. However, it also offers novel opportunities to develop representations that are consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Simone Marullo , Matteo Tiezzi , Marco Gori , Stefano Melacci