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While there is overall agreement that future technology for organizing, browsing and searching videos hinges on the development of methods for high-level semantic understanding of video, so far no consensus has been reached on the best way…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Du Tran , Maksim Bolonkin , Manohar Paluri , Lorenzo Torresani

The convergence of 3D geometric perception and video synthesis has created an unprecedented demand for large-scale video data that is rich in both semantic and spatio-temporal information. While existing datasets have advanced either 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yunnan Wang , Kecheng Zheng , Jianyuan Wang , Minghao Chen , David Novotny , Christian Rupprecht , Yinghao Xu , Xing Zhu , Wenjun Zeng , Xin Jin , Yujun Shen

Recent methods for video action recognition have reached outstanding performances on existing benchmarks. However, they tend to leverage context such as scenes or objects instead of focusing on understanding the human action itself. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Philippe Weinzaepfel , Grégory Rogez

Ambiguity is ubiquitous in human communication. Previous approaches in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) have often relied on predefined interaction templates, leading to reduced performance in realistic and open-ended scenarios. To address…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Hanbo Zhang , Jie Xu , Yuchen Mo , Tao Kong

In human vision objects and their parts can be visually recognized from purely spatial or purely temporal information but the mechanisms integrating space and time are poorly understood. Here we show that human visual recognition of objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Guy Ben-Yosef , Gabriel Kreiman , Shimon Ullman

Spatial reasoning has emerged as a critical capability for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), drawing increasing attention and rapid advancement. However, existing benchmarks primarily focus on single-step perception-to-judgment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Rui Zhu , Xin Shen , Shuchen Wu , Chenxi Miao , Xin Yu , Yang Li , Weikang Li , Deguo Xia , Jizhou Huang

This study delves into the realm of multi-modality (i.e., video and motion modalities) human behavior understanding by leveraging the powerful capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). Diverging from recent LLMs designed for video-only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Ling-Hao Chen , Shunlin Lu , Ailing Zeng , Hao Zhang , Benyou Wang , Ruimao Zhang , Lei Zhang

Emotion understanding is a fundamental challenge in affective computing and artificial intelligence. While existing approaches predominantly focus on facial expressions and speech, they often overlook the rich emotional cues conveyed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chengyan Wang , Haoyu Chen , Hui Wei , Yueyi Yang , Yunquan Chen , Guoying Zhao

Humans inhabit a world defined by interactions -- with other humans, objects, and environments. These interactive movements not only convey our relationships with our surroundings but also demonstrate how we perceive and communicate with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Kewei Sui , Anindita Ghosh , Inwoo Hwang , Bing Zhou , Jian Wang , Chuan Guo

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel at single-image understanding, they exhibit significantly degraded performance in multi-image reasoning scenarios. Multi-image reasoning presents fundamental challenges including complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Jianghao Yin , Qingbin Li , Kun Sun , Cheng Ding , Jie Wang , Qin Chen , Jie Zhou , Nan Wang , Changqing Li , Pei Wu , Jian Xu , Zheming Yang , Liang He

Long context egocentric video understanding has recently attracted significant research attention, with augmented reality (AR) highlighted as one of its most important application domains. Nevertheless, the task remains highly challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Qiance Tang , Ziqi Wang , Jieyu Lin , Ziyun Li , Barbara De Salvo , Sai Qian Zhang

A truly capable AI system must do more than detect objects or recognize activities in isolation. It must form unified, grounded representations of who is acting, what they are doing, and when and where these actions unfold. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Tanveer Hannan , Shuaicong Wu , Mark Weber , Suprosanna Shit , Jindong Gu , Rajat Koner , Aljoša Ošep , Laura Leal-Taixé , Thomas Seidl

Human Action Recognition (HAR) is a very crucial task in computer vision. It helps to carry out a series of downstream tasks, like understanding human behaviors. Due to the complexity of human behaviors, many highly valuable behaviors are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Hongwu Li , Zhenliang Zhang , Wei Wang

Many videos depict people, and it is their interactions that inform us of their activities, relation to one another and the cultural and social setting. With advances in human action recognition, researchers have begun to address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Alexandros Stergiou , Ronald Poppe

Micro-action is an imperceptible non-verbal behaviour characterised by low-intensity movement. It offers insights into the feelings and intentions of individuals and is important for human-oriented applications such as emotion recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Dan Guo , Kun Li , Bin Hu , Yan Zhang , Meng Wang

Learning from (procedural) videos has increasingly served as a pathway for embodied agents to acquire skills from human demonstrations. To do this, video understanding models must be able to obtain structured understandings, such as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zitian Tang , Rohan Myer Krishnan , Zhiqiu Yu , Chen Sun

Videos capture events that typically contain multiple sequential, and simultaneous, actions even in the span of only a few seconds. However, most large-scale datasets built to train models for action recognition in video only provide a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Mathew Monfort , Bowen Pan , Kandan Ramakrishnan , Alex Andonian , Barry A McNamara , Alex Lascelles , Quanfu Fan , Dan Gutfreund , Rogerio Feris , Aude Oliva

Advancements in deep neural networks have contributed to near perfect results for many computer vision problems such as object recognition, face recognition and pose estimation. However, human action recognition is still far from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Asanka G. Perera , Yee Wei Law , Titilayo T. Ogunwa , Javaan Chahl

Human action recognition still exists many challenging problems such as different viewpoints, occlusion, lighting conditions, human body size and the speed of action execution, although it has been widely used in different areas. To tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Lei Wang

Recent advances in world models have demonstrated strong capabilities in simulating physical reality, making them an increasingly important foundation for embodied intelligence. For UAV agents in particular, accurate prediction of complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Zile Guo , Zhan Chen , Enze Zhu , Kan Wei , Yongkang Zou , Xiaoxuan Liu , Lei Wang