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Temporal grounding, which localizes video moments related to a natural language query, is a core problem of vision-language learning and video understanding. To encode video moments of varying lengths, recent methods employ a multi-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Thong Thanh Nguyen , Yi Bin , Xiaobao Wu , Zhiyuan Hu , Cong-Duy T Nguyen , See-Kiong Ng , Anh Tuan Luu

Video moment retrieval aims to search the moment most relevant to a given language query. However, most existing methods in this community often require temporal boundary annotations which are expensive and time-consuming to label. Hence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Ding Li , Rui Wu , Yongqiang Tang , Zhizhong Zhang , Wensheng Zhang

Benefiting from masked visual modeling, self-supervised video representation learning has achieved remarkable progress. However, existing methods focus on learning representations from scratch through reconstructing low-level features like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Rui Wang , Dongdong Chen , Zuxuan Wu , Yinpeng Chen , Xiyang Dai , Mengchen Liu , Lu Yuan , Yu-Gang Jiang

Temporal modeling is crucial for video super-resolution. Most of the video super-resolution methods adopt the optical flow or deformable convolution for explicitly motion compensation. However, such temporal modeling techniques increase the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Takashi Isobe , Xu Jia , Xin Tao , Changlin Li , Ruihuang Li , Yongjie Shi , Jing Mu , Huchuan Lu , Yu-Wing Tai

We introduce a self-supervised representation learning method based on the task of temporal alignment between videos. The method trains a network using temporal cycle consistency (TCC), a differentiable cycle-consistency loss that can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Debidatta Dwibedi , Yusuf Aytar , Jonathan Tompson , Pierre Sermanet , Andrew Zisserman

Self-supervised learning holds the promise of learning good representations from real-world continuous uncurated data streams. However, most existing works in visual self-supervised learning focus on static images or artificial data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Yanlai Yang , Mengye Ren

Multi-channel video-language retrieval require models to understand information from different channels (e.g. video$+$question, video$+$speech) to correctly link a video with a textual response or query. Fortunately, contrastive multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Xudong Lin , Simran Tiwari , Shiyuan Huang , Manling Li , Mike Zheng Shou , Heng Ji , Shih-Fu Chang

Video restoration (VR) aims to recover high-quality videos from degraded ones. Although recent zero-shot VR methods using pre-trained diffusion models (DMs) show good promise, they suffer from approximation errors during reverse diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Hengkang Wang , Yang Liu , Huidong Liu , Chien-Chih Wang , Yanhui Guo , Hongdong Li , Bryan Wang , Ju Sun

The objective of this paper is self-supervised representation learning, with the goal of solving semi-supervised video object segmentation (a.k.a. dense tracking). We make the following contributions: (i) we propose to improve the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Fangrui Zhu , Li Zhang , Yanwei Fu , Guodong Guo , Weidi Xie

Modern self-supervised learning algorithms typically enforce persistency of instance representations across views. While being very effective on learning holistic image and video representations, such an objective becomes sub-optimal for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Liangzhe Yuan , Rui Qian , Yin Cui , Boqing Gong , Florian Schroff , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Hartwig Adam , Ting Liu

We propose a novel self-supervised method, referred to as Video Cloze Procedure (VCP), to learn rich spatial-temporal representations. VCP first generates "blanks" by withholding video clips and then creates "options" by applying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Dezhao Luo , Chang Liu , Yu Zhou , Dongbao Yang , Can Ma , Qixiang Ye , Weiping Wang

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 crux of self-supervised video representation learning is to build general features from unlabeled videos. However, most recent works have mainly focused on high-level semantics and neglected lower-level representations and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Rui Qian , Yuxi Li , Huabin Liu , John See , Shuangrui Ding , Xian Liu , Dian Li , Weiyao Lin

Unsupervised object-centric learning from videos is a promising approach to extract structured representations from large, unlabeled collections of videos. To support downstream tasks like autonomous control, these representations must be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Anna Manasyan , Maximilian Seitzer , Filip Radovic , Georg Martius , Andrii Zadaianchuk

Time-series representation learning can extract representations from data with temporal dynamics and sparse labels. When labeled data are sparse but unlabeled data are abundant, contrastive learning, i.e., a framework to learn a latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Heejeong Choi , Pilsung Kang

We present a novel technique for self-supervised video representation learning by: (a) decoupling the learning objective into two contrastive subtasks respectively emphasizing spatial and temporal features, and (b) performing it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Zehua Zhang , David Crandall

This paper proposes a novel pretext task to address the self-supervised video representation learning problem. Specifically, given an unlabeled video clip, we compute a series of spatio-temporal statistical summaries, such as the spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Jiangliu Wang , Jianbo Jiao , Linchao Bao , Shengfeng He , Wei Liu , Yun-hui Liu

Recent Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have shown strong multimodal reasoning capabilities, yet remain challenged by video understanding tasks that require consistent temporal ordering and causal coherence. Many parameter-efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhengjian Kang , Qi Chen , Rui Liu , Kangtong Mo , Xingyu Zhang , Xiaoyu Deng , Ye Zhang

Recently, self-supervised representation learning gives further development in multimedia technology. Most existing self-supervised learning methods are applicable to packaged data. However, when it comes to streamed data, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Zhiwei Lin , Yongtao Wang , Hongxiang Lin

With the advent of large-scale multimodal video datasets, especially sequences with audio or transcribed speech, there has been a growing interest in self-supervised learning of video representations. Most prior work formulates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Bruno Korbar , Fabio Petroni , Rohit Girdhar , Lorenzo Torresani