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The ability to recognize, localize and track dynamic objects in a scene is fundamental to many real-world applications, such as self-driving and robotic systems. Yet, traditional multiple object tracking (MOT) benchmarks rely only on a few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Siyuan Li , Tobias Fischer , Lei Ke , Henghui Ding , Martin Danelljan , Fisher Yu

Action recognition is a fundamental capability for humanoid robots to interact and cooperate with humans. This application requires the action recognition system to be designed so that new actions can be easily added, while unknown actions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Stefano Berti , Andrea Rosasco , Michele Colledanchise , Lorenzo Natale

The ability to interpret and comprehend a 3D scene is essential for many vision and robotics systems. In numerous applications, this involves 3D object detection, i.e.~identifying the location and dimensions of objects belonging to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Olivier Moliner , Viktor Larsson , Kalle Åström

We present OpenSeeD, a simple Open-vocabulary Segmentation and Detection framework that jointly learns from different segmentation and detection datasets. To bridge the gap of vocabulary and annotation granularity, we first introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Hao Zhang , Feng Li , Xueyan Zou , Shilong Liu , Chunyuan Li , Jianfeng Gao , Jianwei Yang , Lei Zhang

Open-vocabulary object detectors such as Grounding DINO are trained on vast and diverse data, achieving remarkable performance on challenging datasets. Due to that, it is unclear where to find their limitations, which is of major concern…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Annika Mütze , Sadia Ilyas , Christian Dörpelkus , Matthias Rottmann

In recent years, vision-language models have made significant strides, excelling in tasks like optical character recognition and geometric problem-solving. However, several critical issues remain: 1) Proprietary models often lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Yuan Liu , Zhongyin Zhao , Ziyuan Zhuang , Le Tian , Xiao Zhou , Jie Zhou

Open-vocabulary segmentation aims to achieve segmentation of arbitrary categories given unlimited text inputs as guidance. To achieve this, recent works have focused on developing various technical routes to exploit the potential of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Yong Liu , SongLi Wu , Sule Bai , Jiahao Wang , Yitong Wang , Yansong Tang

Active speaker detection requires a solid integration of multi-modal cues. While individual modalities can approximate a solution, accurate predictions can only be achieved by explicitly fusing the audio and visual features and modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Juan León-Alcázar , Fabian Caba Heilbron , Ali Thabet , Bernard Ghanem

With the development of robotics, skeleton-based action recognition has become increasingly important, as human-robot interaction requires understanding the actions of humans and humanoid robots. Due to different sources of human skeletons…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jidong Kuang , Hongsong Wang , Jie Gui

Detecting facial action units (AU) is one of the fundamental steps in automatic recognition of facial expression of emotions and cognitive states. Though there have been a variety of approaches proposed for this task, most of these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Mihee Lee , Ognjen Rudovic , Vladimir Pavlovic , Maja Pantic

Open-vocabulary Temporal Action Detection (Open-vocab TAD) is an advanced video analysis approach that expands Closed-vocabulary Temporal Action Detection (Closed-vocab TAD) capabilities. Closed-vocab TAD is typically confined to localizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Trung Thanh Nguyen , Yasutomo Kawanishi , Takahiro Komamizu , Ichiro Ide

Are vision-language models (VLMs) for open-vocabulary perception inherently open-set models because they are trained on internet-scale datasets? We answer this question with a clear no - VLMs introduce closed-set assumptions via their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Dimity Miller , Niko Sünderhauf , Alex Kenna , Keita Mason

Scale is the primary factor for building a powerful foundation model that could well generalize to a variety of downstream tasks. However, it is still challenging to train video foundation models with billions of parameters. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Limin Wang , Bingkun Huang , Zhiyu Zhao , Zhan Tong , Yinan He , Yi Wang , Yali Wang , Yu Qiao

Action recognition and anticipation are key to the success of many computer vision applications. Existing methods can roughly be grouped into those that extract global, context-aware representations of the entire image or sequence, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-21 Mohammad Sadegh Aliakbarian , Fatemehsadat Saleh , Basura Fernando , Mathieu Salzmann , Lars Petersson , Lars Andersson

Open-vocabulary instance segmentation aims at segmenting novel classes without mask annotations. It is an important step toward reducing laborious human supervision. Most existing works first pretrain a model on captioned images covering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Dat Huynh , Jason Kuen , Zhe Lin , Jiuxiang Gu , Ehsan Elhamifar

Despite remarkable progress in Vision--Language--Action (VLA) models, a central bottleneck remains underexamined: the data infrastructure that underlies embodied learning. In this survey, we argue that future advances in VLA will depend…

Vision-language-action models (VLAs) have become an increasingly popular approach for addressing robot manipulation problems in recent years. However, such models need to output actions at a rate suitable for robot control, which limits the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Eric Hannus , Miika Malin , Tran Nguyen Le , Ville Kyrki

Open-vocabulary detection (OVD) is a challenging task to detect and classify objects from an unrestricted set of categories, including those unseen during training. Existing open-vocabulary detectors are limited by complex visual-textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Caixiong Li , Xiongwei Zhao , Jinhang Zhang , Xing Zhang , Qihao Sun , Zhou Wu

Increasing model size has unlocked a dazzling array of capabilities in modern language models. At the same time, even frontier models remain vulnerable to jailbreaks and prompt injections, despite concerted efforts to make them robust. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Nikolaus Howe , Ian McKenzie , Oskar Hollinsworth , Michał Zajac , Tom Tseng , Aaron Tucker , Pierre-Luc Bacon , Adam Gleave

Visual voice activity detection (V-VAD) uses visual features to predict whether a person is speaking or not. V-VAD is useful whenever audio VAD (A-VAD) is inefficient either because the acoustic signal is difficult to analyze or because it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Sylvain Guy , Stéphane Lathuilière , Pablo Mesejo , Radu Horaud