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Technologies to predict human actions are extremely important for applications such as human robot cooperation and autonomous driving. However, a majority of the existing algorithms focus on exploiting visual features of the videos and do…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Bo Chen , Decai Li , Yuqing He , Chunsheng Hua

Temporal relational modeling in video is essential for human action understanding, such as action recognition and action segmentation. Although Graph Convolution Networks (GCNs) have shown promising advantages in relation reasoning on many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Dong Wang , Di Hu , Xingjian Li , Dejing Dou

Multimodal LLMs have advanced vision-language tasks but still struggle with understanding video scenes. To bridge this gap, Video Scene Graph Generation (VidSGG) has emerged to capture multi-object relationships across video frames.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Trong-Thuan Nguyen , Pha Nguyen , Jackson Cothren , Alper Yilmaz , Khoa Luu

Collaborative reasoning for understanding image-question pairs is a very critical but underexplored topic in interpretable visual question answering systems. Although very recent studies have attempted to use explicit compositional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Qingxing Cao , Bailin Li , Xiaodan Liang , Liang Lin

When video reasoning requires external knowledge, many systems with large multimodal models (LMMs) adopt retrieval augmentation to supply the missing context. Appending textual or multi-clip evidence, however, forces heterogeneous signals…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Songyuan Yang , Weijiang Yu , Ziyu Liu , Guijian Tang , Wenjing Yang , Huibin Tan , Nong Xiao

In recent years multi-label, multi-class video action recognition has gained significant popularity. While reasoning over temporally connected atomic actions is mundane for intelligent species, standard artificial neural networks (ANN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Akash Singh , Tom De Schepper , Kevin Mets , Peter Hellinckx , Jose Oramas , Steven Latre

Temporal grounding is the task of locating a specific segment from an untrimmed video according to a query sentence. This task has achieved significant momentum in the computer vision community as it enables activity grounding beyond…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Juncheng Li , Siliang Tang , Linchao Zhu , Wenqiao Zhang , Yi Yang , Tat-Seng Chua , Fei Wu , Yueting Zhuang

Traditional scene graphs primarily focus on spatial relationships, limiting vision-language models' (VLMs) ability to reason about complex interactions in visual scenes. This paper addresses two key challenges: (1) conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Dayong Liang , Changmeng Zheng , Zhiyuan Wen , Yi Cai , Xiao-Yong Wei , Qing Li

Scene Graph Generation, which generally follows a regular encoder-decoder pipeline, aims to first encode the visual contents within the given image and then parse them into a compact summary graph. Existing SGG approaches generally not only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Xingning Dong , Tian Gan , Xuemeng Song , Jianlong Wu , Yuan Cheng , Liqiang Nie

Unified multimodal models can encode visual understanding and image generation within a shared backbone, yet understanding does not automatically translate into control: models may infer objects, relations, or knowledge cues but fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Fuxiang Zhai , Sixiang Chen , Yingjin Li , Shuaibo Li , Jianyu Lai , Tengjun Huang , Lei Zhu

Recent advances in video reward models and post-training strategies have improved text-to-video (T2V) generation. While these models typically assess visual quality, motion quality, and text alignment, they often overlook key structural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yuan Wang , Borui Liao , Huijuan Huang , Jinda Lu , Ouxiang Li , Kuien Liu , Meng Wang , Xiang Wang

Group Activity Recognition (GAR) remains challenging in computer vision due to the complex nature of multi-agent interactions. This paper introduces LiGAR, a LIDAR-Guided Hierarchical Transformer for Multi-Modal Group Activity Recognition.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Naga Venkata Sai Raviteja Chappa , Khoa Luu

Human beings are fundamentally sociable -- that we generally organize our social lives in terms of relations with other people. Understanding social relations from an image has great potential for intelligent systems such as social chatbots…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Wanhua Li , Yueqi Duan , Jiwen Lu , Jianjiang Feng , Jie Zhou

We present PromptGAR, a novel framework for Group Activity Recognition (GAR) that offering both input flexibility and high recognition accuracy. The existing approaches suffer from limited real-world applicability due to their reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Zhangyu Jin , Andrew Feng , Ankur Chemburkar , Celso M. De Melo

Vision Language Models (VLMs) achieve strong performance on many vision-language tasks but often struggle with spatial reasoning$\unicode{x2014}$a prerequisite for many applications. Empirically, we find that a dataset produced by a current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Karim Elmaaroufi , Liheng Lai , Justin Svegliato , Yutong Bai , Sanjit A. Seshia , Matei Zaharia

Grounded video description (GVD) encourages captioning models to attend to appropriate video regions (e.g., objects) dynamically and generate a description. Such a setting can help explain the decisions of captioning models and prevents the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Wenqiao Zhang , Xin Eric Wang , Siliang Tang , Haizhou Shi , Haocheng Shi , Jun Xiao , Yueting Zhuang , William Yang Wang

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

Accurate video understanding involves reasoning about the relationships between actors, objects and their environment, often over long temporal intervals. In this paper, we propose a message passing graph neural network that explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Anurag Arnab , Chen Sun , Cordelia Schmid

Vision foundation models (FMs) have become the predominant architecture in computer vision, providing highly transferable representations learned from large-scale, multimodal corpora. Nonetheless, they exhibit persistent limitations on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Fatemeh Ziaeetabar

Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) has emerged as a promising paradigm that organizes external knowledge into structured graphs of entities and relations, enabling large language models (LLMs) to perform complex reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jinyoung Park , Sanghyeok Lee , Omar Zia Khan , Hyunwoo J. Kim , Joo-Kyung Kim