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Unsupervised Skill Discovery (USD) allows agents to autonomously learn diverse behaviors without task-specific rewards. While recent USD methods have shown promise, their application to real-world robotics remains underexplored. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Rafael Cathomen , Mayank Mittal , Marin Vlastelica , Marco Hutter

Video object segmentation is challenging due to the factors like rapidly fast motion, cluttered backgrounds, arbitrary object appearance variation and shape deformation. Most existing methods only explore appearance information between two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Kaihua Zhang , Xuejun Li , Qingshan Liu

The Generic Event Boundary Detection (GEBD) task aims to build a model for segmenting videos into segments by detecting general event boundaries applicable to various classes. In this paper, based on last year's MAE-GEBD method, we have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Yuanxi Sun , Rui He , Youzeng Li , Zuwei Huang , Feng Hu , Xu Cheng , Jie Tang

Learning actions from human demonstration video is promising for intelligent robotic systems. Extracting the exact section and re-observing the extracted video section in detail is important for imitating complex skills because human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Iori Yanokura , Naoki Wake , Kazuhiro Sasabuchi , Katsushi Ikeuchi , Masayuki Inaba

Building reliable object detectors that can detect out-of-distribution (OOD) objects is critical yet underexplored. One of the key challenges is that models lack supervision signals from unknown data, producing overconfident predictions on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Xuefeng Du , Xin Wang , Gabriel Gozum , Yixuan Li

Unsupervised skill discovery in reinforcement learning aims to intrinsically motivate agents to discover diverse and useful behaviours. However, unconstrained approaches can produce unsafe, unethical, or misaligned behaviours. To mitigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Maxence Hussonnois , Thommen George Karimpanal , Santu Rana

Human demonstration videos are a widely available data source for robot learning and an intuitive user interface for expressing desired behavior. However, directly extracting reusable robot manipulation skills from unstructured human videos…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Mengda Xu , Zhenjia Xu , Cheng Chi , Manuela Veloso , Shuran Song

Purpose: A profound education of novice surgeons is crucial to ensure that surgical interventions are effective and safe. One important aspect is the teaching of technical skills for minimally invasive or robot-assisted procedures. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Isabel Funke , Sören Torge Mees , Jürgen Weitz , Stefanie Speidel

Temporal action segmentation is a topic of increasing interest, however, annotating each frame in a video is cumbersome and costly. Weakly supervised approaches therefore aim at learning temporal action segmentation from videos that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Mohsen Fayyaz , Juergen Gall

Unsupervised skill discovery drives intelligent agents to explore the unknown environment without task-specific reward signal, and the agents acquire various skills which may be useful when the agents adapt to new tasks. In this paper, we…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Shuncheng He , Jianzhun Shao , Xiangyang Ji

Video segmentation aims at partitioning video sequences into meaningful segments based on objects or regions of interest within frames. Current video segmentation models are often derived from image segmentation techniques, which struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Chen Liang , Qiang Guo , Xiaochao Qu , Luoqi Liu , Ting Liu

Unsupervised text segmentation is crucial because boundary labels are expensive, subjective, and often fail to transfer across domains and granularity choices. We propose Embed-KCPD, a training-free method that represents sentences as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Mumin Jia , Jairo Diaz-Rodriguez

Despite significant progress in semi-supervised learning for image object detection, several key issues are yet to be addressed for video object detection: (1) Achieving good performance for supervised video object detection greatly depends…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Tanvir Mahmud , Chun-Hao Liu , Burhaneddin Yaman , Diana Marculescu

View selection is critical in active 3D neural reconstruction as it impacts the contents of training set and resulting final output quality. Recent view selection strategies emphasize the visibility when evaluating model uncertainty in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Hyunseo Kim , Hyeonseo Yang , Taekyung Kim , YoonSung Kim , Minsu Lee , Jin-Hwa Kim , Byoung-Tak Zhang

We present a new model to determine relative skill from long videos, through learnable temporal attention modules. Skill determination is formulated as a ranking problem, making it suitable for common and generic tasks. However, for long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Hazel Doughty , Walterio Mayol-Cuevas , Dima Damen

To improve the efficiency of surgical trajectory segmentation for robot learning in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery, this paper presents a fast unsupervised method using video and kinematic data, followed by a promoting procedure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Zhenzhou Shao , Hongfa Zhao , Jiexin Xie , Ying Qu , Yong Guan , Jindong Tan

Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning (RL) aims to discover diverse behaviors that can accelerate the learning of downstream tasks. Previous methods typically focus on entropy-based exploration or empowerment-driven skill learning. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ting Xiao , Jiakun Zheng , Rushuai Yang , Kang Xu , Qiaosheng Zhang , Peng Liu , Chenjia Bai

Recent studies on deep-learning-based small defection segmentation approaches are trained in specific settings and tend to be limited by fixed context. Throughout the training, the network inevitably learns the representation of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Zexi Chen , Zheyuan Huang , Yunkai Wang , Xuecheng Xu , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

This work proposes a semantic segmentation network that produces high-quality uncertainty estimates in a single forward pass. We exploit general representations from foundation models and unlabelled datasets through a Masked Image Modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 David S. W. Williams , Matthew Gadd , Paul Newman , Daniele De Martini

Object-centric slot attention is a powerful framework for unsupervised learning of structured and explainable representations that can support reasoning about objects and actions, including in surgical videos. While conventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-04 Guiqiu Liao , Matjaz Jogan , Marcel Hussing , Kenta Nakahashi , Kazuhiro Yasufuku , Amin Madani , Eric Eaton , Daniel A. Hashimoto