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Cross-modal retrieval between videos and texts has attracted growing attentions due to the rapid emergence of videos on the web. The current dominant approach for this problem is to learn a joint embedding space to measure cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Shizhe Chen , Yida Zhao , Qin Jin , Qi Wu

Existing methods for video question answering (VideoQA) often suffer from spurious correlations between different modalities, leading to a failure in identifying the dominant visual evidence and the intended question. Moreover, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Yushen Wei , Yang Liu , Hong Yan , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin

Event Causality Identification (ECI) has become an essential task in Natural Language Processing (NLP), focused on automatically detecting causal relationships between events within texts. This comprehensive survey systematically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Qing Cheng , Zefan Zeng , Xingchen Hu , Yuehang Si , Zhong Liu

Existing script event prediction task forcasts the subsequent event based on an event script chain. However, the evolution of historical events are more complicated in real world scenarios and the limited information provided by the event…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Chuanhong Zhan , Wei Xiang , Chao Liang , Bang Wang

Understanding causality helps to structure interventions to achieve specific goals and enables predictions under interventions. With the growing importance of learning causal relationships, causal discovery tasks have transitioned from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Hang Chen , Keqing Du , Xinyu Yang , Chenguang Li

Despite great success has been achieved in activity analysis, it still has many challenges. Most existing work in activity recognition pay more attention to design efficient architecture or video sampling strategy. However, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Jingran Zhang , Fumin Shen , Xing Xu , Heng Tao Shen

Deep learning has revolutionized the field of artificial intelligence. Based on the statistical correlations uncovered by deep learning-based methods, computer vision has contributed to tremendous growth in areas like autonomous driving and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Kexuan Zhang , Qiyu Sun , Chaoqiang Zhao , Yang Tang

Abductive reasoning seeks the likeliest possible explanation for partial observations. Although abduction is frequently employed in human daily reasoning, it is rarely explored in computer vision literature. In this paper, we propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Chen Liang , Wenguan Wang , Tianfei Zhou , Yi Yang

Causal graph recovery is traditionally done using statistical estimation-based methods or based on individual's knowledge about variables of interests. They often suffer from data collection biases and limitations of individuals' knowledge.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Yuzhe Zhang , Yipeng Zhang , Yidong Gan , Lina Yao , Chen Wang

Script event prediction requires a model to predict the subsequent event given an existing event context. Previous models based on event pairs or event chains cannot make full use of dense event connections, which may limit their capability…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Zhongyang Li , Xiao Ding , Ting Liu

Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in perception and reasoning. However, the ability to perform causal inference -- a core aspect of human cognition -- remains underexplored,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Keummin Ka , Junhyeong Park , Jaehyun Jeon , Youngjae Yu

Understanding long-form egocentric videos remains challenging for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) due to limited context length and insufficient grounding of fine-grained visual details. The recently proposed HD-EPIC benchmark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yinsong Xu , Wei Jing , Liuxin Zhang , Wanjun Lv , Hui Li

Most existing causal discovery methods rely on the assumption of no latent confounders, limiting their applicability in solving real-life problems. In this paper, we introduce a novel, versatile framework for causal discovery that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Xinshuai Dong , Biwei Huang , Ignavier Ng , Xiangchen Song , Yujia Zheng , Songyao Jin , Roberto Legaspi , Peter Spirtes , Kun Zhang

Although deep learning techniques show promising results for many neuroimaging tasks in research settings, they have not yet found widespread use in clinical scenarios. One of the reasons for this problem is that many machine learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-05 Vibujithan Vigneshwaran , Erik Ohara , Matthias Wilms , Nils Forkert

Exploiting relationships among objects has achieved remarkable progress in interpreting images or videos by natural language. Most existing methods resort to first detecting objects and their relationships, and then generating textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Jingyi Hou , Xinxiao Wu , Yayun Qi , Wentian Zhao , Jiebo Luo , Yunde Jia

The event-based Vision-Language Model (VLM) recently has made good progress for practical vision tasks. However, most of these works just utilize CLIP for focusing on traditional perception tasks, which obstruct model understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Pengteng Li , Yunfan Lu , Pinghao Song , Wuyang Li , Huizai Yao , Hui Xiong

Causal discovery aims to uncover cause-and-effect relationships encoded in causal graphs by leveraging observational, interventional data, or their combination. The majority of existing causal discovery methods are developed assuming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Muhammad Qasim Elahi , Lai Wei , Murat Kocaoglu , Mahsa Ghasemi

Causal discovery (CD) plays a pivotal role in numerous scientific fields by clarifying the causal relationships that underlie phenomena observed in diverse disciplines. Despite significant advancements in CD algorithms that enhance bias and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Khadija Zanna , Akane Sano

Video-based human pose estimation has long been a fundamental yet challenging problem in computer vision. Previous studies focus on spatio-temporal modeling through the enhancement of architecture design and optimization strategies.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Haipeng Chen , Sifan Wu , Zhigang Wang , Yifang Yin , Yingying Jiao , Yingda Lyu , Zhenguang Liu

The Audio-Visual Video Parsing task aims to recognize and temporally localize all events occurring in either the audio or visual stream, or both. Capturing accurate event semantics for each audio/visual segment is vital. Prior works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Pengcheng Zhao , Jinxing Zhou , Yang Zhao , Dan Guo , Yanxiang Chen