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Transformers are remarkably versatile, suggesting the existence of generic inductive biases beneficial across modalities. In this work, we explore a new way to instil such biases in vision transformers (ViTs) through pretraining on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zachary Shinnick , Liangze Jiang , Hemanth Saratchandran , Damien Teney , Anton van den Hengel

Neural networks have recently been used to analyze diverse physical systems and to identify the underlying dynamics. While existing methods achieve impressive results, they are limited by their strong demand for training data and their weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Florian Hofherr , Lukas Koestler , Florian Bernard , Daniel Cremers

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

The pre-training of visual representations has enhanced the efficiency of robot learning. Due to the lack of large-scale in-domain robotic datasets, prior works utilize in-the-wild human videos to pre-train robotic visual representation.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Guangqi Jiang , Yifei Sun , Tao Huang , Huanyu Li , Yongyuan Liang , Huazhe Xu

This paper introduces an unsupervised framework to extract semantically rich features for video representation. Inspired by how the human visual system groups objects based on motion cues, we propose a deep convolutional neural network that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Xunyu Lin , Victor Campos , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto , Jordi Torres , Cristian Canton Ferrer

Deep video action recognition models have been highly successful in recent years but require large quantities of manually annotated data, which are expensive and laborious to obtain. In this work, we investigate the generation of synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-16 César Roberto de Souza , Adrien Gaidon , Yohann Cabon , Naila Murray , Antonio Manuel López

This paper addresses the task of unsupervised learning of representations for action recognition in videos. Previous works proposed to utilize future prediction, or other domain-specific objectives to train a network, but achieved only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Pavel Tokmakov , Martial Hebert , Cordelia Schmid

In video understanding tasks, particularly those involving human motion, synthetic data generation often suffers from uncanny features, diminishing its effectiveness for training. Tasks such as sign language translation, gesture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Vaclav Knapp , Matyas Bohacek

While the BD-rate performance of recent learned video codec models in both low-delay and random-access modes exceed that of respective modes of traditional codecs on average over common benchmarks, the performance improvements for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Ahmet Bilican , M. Akın Yılmaz , A. Murat Tekalp

In recent years, deep neural network approaches have naturally extended to the video domain, in their simplest case by aggregating per-frame classifications as a baseline for action recognition. A majority of the work in this area extends…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Daniel Castro , Steven Hickson , Patsorn Sangkloy , Bhavishya Mittal , Sean Dai , James Hays , Irfan Essa

This paper introduces a novel self-supervised method that leverages incoherence detection for video representation learning. It roots from the observation that visual systems of human beings can easily identify video incoherence based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Haozhi Cao , Yuecong Xu , Jianfei Yang , Kezhi Mao , Lihua Xie , Jianxiong Yin , Simon See

We propose Video Gaussian Masked Autoencoders (Video-GMAE), a self-supervised approach for representation learning that encodes a sequence of images into a set of Gaussian splats moving over time. Representing a video as a set of Gaussians…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Tanish Baranwal , Himanshu Gaurav Singh , Jathushan Rajasegaran , Jitendra Malik

Generalizing deepfake detection to unseen manipulations remains a key challenge. A recent approach to tackle this issue is to train a network with pristine face images that have been manipulated with hand-crafted artifacts to extract more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Alejandro Cobo , Roberto Valle , José Miguel Buenaposada , Luis Baumela

Inspired by the fact that human eyes continue to develop tracking ability in early and middle childhood, we propose to use tracking as a proxy task for a computer vision system to learn the visual representations. Modelled on the Catch game…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Guangting Wang , Yizhou Zhou , Chong Luo , Wenxuan Xie , Wenjun Zeng , Zhiwei Xiong

Robot learning of manipulation skills is hindered by the scarcity of diverse, unbiased datasets. While curated datasets can help, challenges remain in generalizability and real-world transfer. Meanwhile, large-scale "in-the-wild" video…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Chrisantus Eze , Christopher Crick

Dashboard cameras capture a tremendous amount of driving scene video each day. These videos are purposefully coupled with vehicle sensing data, such as from the speedometer and inertial sensors, providing an additional sensing modality for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Seokju Lee , Junsik Kim , Tae-Hyun Oh , Yongseop Jeong , Donggeun Yoo , Stephen Lin , In So Kweon

Understanding and predicting motion is a fundamental component of visual intelligence. Although modern video models exhibit strong comprehension of scene dynamics, exploring multiple possible futures through full video synthesis remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Nick Stracke , Kolja Bauer , Stefan Andreas Baumann , Miguel Angel Bautista , Josh Susskind , Björn Ommer

Due to the statistical complexity of video, the high degree of inherent stochasticity, and the sheer amount of data, generating natural video remains a challenging task. State-of-the-art video generation models often attempt to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Dirk Weissenborn , Oscar Täckström , Jakob Uszkoreit

Pretraining on large natural image classification datasets such as ImageNet has aided model development on data-scarce 2D medical tasks. 3D medical tasks often have much less data than 2D medical tasks, prompting practitioners to rely on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Alexander Ke , Shih-Cheng Huang , Chloe P O'Connell , Michal Klimont , Serena Yeung , Pranav Rajpurkar

The recent success of Transformers in the language domain has motivated adapting it to a multimodal setting, where a new visual model is trained in tandem with an already pretrained language model. However, due to the excessive memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Sangho Lee , Youngjae Yu , Gunhee Kim , Thomas Breuel , Jan Kautz , Yale Song