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Referring Expression Comprehension (REC), which aims to ground a local visual region via natural language, is a task that heavily relies on multimodal alignment. Most existing methods utilize powerful pre-trained models to transfer…

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Multimodal video summarization requires visual features that align semantically with language generation. Traditional approaches rely on CNN features trained for object classification, which represent visual concepts as discrete categories…

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Demystifying complex human-ground interactions is essential for accurate and realistic 3D human motion reconstruction from RGB videos, as it ensures consistency between the humans and the ground plane. Prior methods have modeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Sihan Ma , Qiong Cao , Hongwei Yi , Jing Zhang , Dacheng Tao

Upsampling videos of human activity is an interesting yet challenging task with many potential applications ranging from gaming to entertainment and sports broadcasting. The main difficulty in synthesizing video frames in this setting stems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Hsuan-I Ho , Xu Chen , Jie Song , Otmar Hilliges

Video enhancement is a challenging problem, more than that of stills, mainly due to high computational cost, larger data volumes and the difficulty of achieving consistency in the spatio-temporal domain. In practice, these challenges are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-13 Dario Fuoli , Zhiwu Huang , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

While recent multimodal models have shown progress in vision-language tasks, small-scale variants still struggle with the fine-grained temporal reasoning required for video understanding. We introduce ReasonAct, a method that enhances video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Jiaxin Liu , Zhaolu Kang

Deep image matting methods have achieved increasingly better results on benchmarks (e.g., Composition-1k/alphamatting.com). However, the robustness, including robustness to trimaps and generalization to images from different domains, is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Yutong Dai , Brian Price , He Zhang , Chunhua Shen

We propose a smooth regularization technique that instills a strong temporal inductive bias in video recognition models, particularly benefiting lightweight architectures. Our method encourages smoothness in the intermediate-layer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Gil Goldman , Raja Giryes , Mahadev Satyanarayanan

Atmospheric turbulence severely degrades video quality by introducing distortions such as geometric warping, blur, and temporal flickering, posing significant challenges to both visual clarity and temporal consistency. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Zhiming Liu , Zhicheng Zou , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

When autonomous vehicles are deployed on public roads, they will encounter countless and diverse driving situations. Many manually designed driving policies are difficult to scale to the real world. Fortunately, reinforcement learning has…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Letian Wang , Jie Liu , Hao Shao , Wenshuo Wang , Ruobing Chen , Yu Liu , Steven L. Waslander

Fine-grained visual reasoning remains a core challenge for multimodal large language models (MLLMs). The recently introduced ReasonMap highlights this gap by showing that even advanced MLLMs struggle with spatial reasoning in structured and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Sicheng Feng , Kaiwen Tuo , Song Wang , Lingdong Kong , Jianke Zhu , Huan Wang

The rapid increase in the amount of published visual data and the limited time of users bring the demand for processing untrimmed videos to produce shorter versions that convey the same information. Despite the remarkable progress that has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Washington Ramos , Michel Silva , Edson Araujo , Leandro Soriano Marcolino , Erickson Nascimento

Learning to localize temporal boundaries of procedure steps in instructional videos is challenging due to the limited availability of annotated large-scale training videos. Recent works focus on learning the cross-modal alignment between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Yuxiao Chen , Kai Li , Wentao Bao , Deep Patel , Yu Kong , Martin Renqiang Min , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Reinforcement learning has advanced video reasoning in large multi-modal models, yet dominant pipelines either rely on on-policy self-exploration, which plateaus at the model's knowledge boundary, or hybrid replay that mixes policies and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Haojian Huang , Chuanyu Qin , Yinchuan Li , Yingcong Chen

Representation learning stands as one of the critical machine learning techniques across various domains. Through the acquisition of high-quality features, pre-trained embeddings significantly reduce input space redundancy, benefiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Suiyao Chen , Jing Wu , Naira Hovakimyan , Handong Yao

Learning from multiple modalities, such as audio and video, offers opportunities for leveraging complementary information, enhancing robustness, and improving contextual understanding and performance. However, combining such modalities…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Konstantinos Kontras , Christos Chatzichristos , Matthew Blaschko , Maarten De Vos

Reward design remains a critical bottleneck in visual reinforcement learning (RL) for robotic manipulation. In simulated environments, rewards are conventionally designed based on the distance to a target position. However, such precise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Nan Tang , Jing-Cheng Pang , Guanlin Li , Chao Qian , Yang Yu

Multimodal language models now integrate text, audio, and video for unified reasoning. Yet existing RL post-training pipelines treat all input signals as equally relevant, ignoring which modalities each task actually requires. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Nikhil Verma , Minjung Kim , JooYoung Yoo , Kyung-Min Jin , Manasa Bharadwaj , Kevin Ferreira , Ko Keun Kim , Youngjoon Kim

Existing large video-language models (LVLMs) struggle to comprehend long videos correctly due to limited context. To address this problem, fine-tuning long-context LVLMs and employing GPT-based agents have emerged as promising solutions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yongdong Luo , Xiawu Zheng , Guilin Li , Shukang Yin , Haojia Lin , Chaoyou Fu , Jinfa Huang , Jiayi Ji , Fei Chao , Jiebo Luo , Rongrong Ji

Enabling VLA models to predict environmental dynamics, known as world modeling, has been recognized as essential for improving robotic reasoning and generalization. However, current approaches face two main issues: 1. The training objective…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Han Zhao , Jingbo Wang , Wenxuan Song , Shuai Chen , Yang Liu , Yan Wang , Haoang Li , Donglin Wang