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This paper is about weakly supervised action segmentation, where the ground truth specifies only a set of actions present in a training video, but not their true temporal ordering. Prior work typically uses a classifier that independently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Jun Li , Sinisa Todorovic

Instance segmentation in videos, which aims to segment and track multiple objects in video frames, has garnered a flurry of research attention in recent years. In this paper, we present a novel weakly supervised framework with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Liqi Yan , Qifan Wang , Siqi Ma , Jingang Wang , Changbin Yu

We propose a realistic scenario for the unsupervised video learning where neither task boundaries nor labels are provided when learning a succession of tasks. We also provide a non-parametric learning solution for the under-explored problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Nattapong Kurpukdee , Adrian G. Bors

We propose a novel approach to the action segmentation task for long, untrimmed videos, based on solving an optimal transport problem. By encoding a temporal consistency prior into a Gromov-Wasserstein problem, we are able to decode a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Ming Xu , Stephen Gould

This paper presents a new large-scale dataset for recognition and temporal localization of human actions collected from Web videos. We refer to it as HACS (Human Action Clips and Segments). We leverage both consensus and disagreement among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Hang Zhao , Antonio Torralba , Lorenzo Torresani , Zhicheng Yan

Action segmentation of behavioral videos is the process of labeling each frame as belonging to one or more discrete classes, and is a crucial component of many studies that investigate animal behavior. A wide range of algorithms exist to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Ari Blau , Evan S Schaffer , Neeli Mishra , Nathaniel J Miska , The International Brain Laboratory , Liam Paninski , Matthew R Whiteway

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

Computer vision tasks are traditionally defined and evaluated using semantic categories. However, it is known to the field that semantic classes do not necessarily correspond to a unique visual class (e.g. inside and outside of a car).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-27 Hossein Azizpour , Stefan Carlsson

This work proposes a self-supervised learning system for segmenting rigid objects in RGB images. The proposed pipeline is trained on unlabeled RGB-D videos of static objects, which can be captured with a camera carried by a mobile robot. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Shiyang Lu , Yunfu Deng , Abdeslam Boularias , Kostas Bekris

An intuition on human segmentation is that when a human is moving in a video, the video-context (e.g., appearance and motion clues) may potentially infer reasonable mask information for the whole human body. Inspired by this, based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Xiaodan Liang , Yunchao Wei , Liang Lin , Yunpeng Chen , Xiaohui Shen , Jianchao Yang , Shuicheng Yan

Multimodal self-supervised learning is getting more and more attention as it allows not only to train large networks without human supervision but also to search and retrieve data across various modalities. In this context, this paper…

This paper addresses the limitations of conventional vector quantization algorithms, particularly K-Means and its variant K-Means++, and investigates the Stochastic Quantization (SQ) algorithm as a scalable alternative for high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Anton Kozyriev , Vladimir Norkin

Self-supervised approaches for video have shown impressive results in video understanding tasks. However, unlike early works that leverage temporal self-supervision, current state-of-the-art methods primarily rely on tasks from the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Ishan Rajendrakumar Dave , Simon Jenni , Mubarak Shah

Video captioning is the task of automatically generating a textual description of the actions in a video. Although previous work (e.g. sequence-to-sequence model) has shown promising results in abstracting a coarse description of a short…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Xin Wang , Wenhu Chen , Jiawei Wu , Yuan-Fang Wang , William Yang Wang

We propose an action classification algorithm which uses Locality-constrained Linear Coding (LLC) to capture discriminative information of human body variations in each spatiotemporal subsequence of a video sequence. Our proposed method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-09-23 Hossein Rahmani , Arif Mahmood , Du Huynh , Ajmal Mian

We propose an approach for learning category-level semantic segmentation purely from image-level classification tags indicating presence of categories. It exploits localization cues that emerge from training classification-tasked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Mohammadreza Mostajabi , Nicholas Kolkin , Gregory Shakhnarovich

Video question answering (VideoQA) is challenging given its multimodal combination of visual understanding and natural language processing. While most existing approaches ignore the visual appearance-motion information at different temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Min Peng , Chongyang Wang , Yuan Gao , Yu Shi , Xiang-Dong Zhou

Video recognition remains an open challenge, requiring the identification of diverse content categories within videos. Mainstream approaches often perform flat classification, overlooking the intrinsic hierarchical structure relating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Rui Zhang , Shuailong Li , Junxiao Xue , Feng Lin , Qing Zhang , Xiao Ma , Xiaoran Yan

Joint segmentation and classification of fine-grained actions is important for applications of human-robot interaction, video surveillance, and human skill evaluation. However, despite substantial recent progress in large-scale action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Colin Lea , Austin Reiter , Rene Vidal , Gregory D. Hager

In this work, we tackle the egocentric visual query localization (VQL), where a model should localize the query object in a long-form egocentric video. Frequent and abrupt viewpoint changes in egocentric videos cause significant object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Joohyun Chang , Soyeon Hong , Hyogun Lee , Seong Jong Ha , Dongho Lee , Seong Tae Kim , Jinwoo Choi