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Video representation is a key challenge in many computer vision applications such as video classification, video captioning, and video surveillance. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for video representation that captures…

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We present a multiscale simulation algorithm for amorphous materials, which we illustrate and validate in a canonical case of dense granular flow. Our algorithm is based on the recently proposed Spot Model, where particles in a dense random…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Chris H. Rycroft , Martin Z. Bazant , Gary S. Grest , James W. Landry

Movement is how people interact with and affect their environment. For realistic character animation, it is necessary to synthesize such interactions between virtual characters and their surroundings. Despite recent progress in character…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Mohamed Hassan , Yunrong Guo , Tingwu Wang , Michael Black , Sanja Fidler , Xue Bin Peng

Generative models such as diffusion and flow matching have become dominant paradigms for visuomotor policy learning, yet their reliance on iterative denoising incurs high inference latency incompatible with real-time robotic control. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Jiaqi Bai , Jindou Jia , Yuxuan Hu , Gen Li , Xiangyu Chen , Tuo An , Kuangji Zuo , Jianfei Yang

Forecasting a typical object's future motion is a critical task for interpreting and interacting with dynamic environments in computer vision. Event-based sensors, which could capture changes in the scene with exceptional temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Song Wu , Zhiyu Zhu , Junhui Hou , Guangming Shi , Jinjian Wu

Pose transfer refers to the probabilistic image generation of a person with a previously unseen novel pose from another image of that person having a different pose. Due to potential academic and commercial applications, this problem is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Prasun Roy , Saumik Bhattacharya , Subhankar Ghosh , Umapada Pal

In this paper, we propose a real-time adaptive prediction method to calculate smooth and accurate haptic feedback in complex scenarios. Smooth haptic feedback is an important task for haptic rendering with complex virtual objects. However,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Xiyuan Hou , Olga Sourina

Forecasting pedestrians' future motions is essential for autonomous driving systems to safely navigate in urban areas. However, existing prediction algorithms often overly rely on past observed trajectories and tend to fail around abrupt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Dongxu Guo , Taylor Mordan , Alexandre Alahi

Diffusion models have recently exhibited remarkable abilities to synthesize striking image samples since the introduction of denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs). Their key idea is to disrupt images into noise through a fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Zijian Zhang , Zhou Zhao , Jun Yu , Qi Tian

Pretraining on large-scale collections of PDE-governed spatiotemporal trajectories has recently shown promise for building generalizable models of dynamical systems. Yet most existing PDE foundation models rely on deterministic Transformer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zituo Chen , Sili Deng

Point cloud scene flow estimation is fundamental to long-term and fine-grained 3D motion analysis. However, existing methods are typically limited to pairwise settings and struggle to maintain temporal consistency over long sequences as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Min Lin , Gangwei Xu , Xianqi Wang , Yuyi Peng , Xin Yang

Integrated optical models allow for accurate prediction of the as-built performance of an optical instrument. Optical models are typically composed of a separate ray trace and diffraction model to capture both the geometrical and physical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-12 Jaren N. Ashcraft , Ewan S. Douglas , Daewook Kim , A. J. E. Riggs , Ramya Anche , Trent Brendel , Kevin Derby , Brandon D. Dube , Quinn Jarecki , Emory Jenkins , Kian Milani

When interacting with highly dynamic environments, scene flow allows autonomous systems to reason about the non-rigid motion of multiple independent objects. This is of particular interest in the field of autonomous driving, in which many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Himangi Mittal , Brian Okorn , David Held

Many motion-centric video analysis tasks, such as atomic actions, detecting atypical motor behavior in individuals with autism, or analyzing articulatory motion in real-time MRI of human speech, require efficient and interpretable temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Hong Nguyen , Dung Tran , Hieu Hoang , Phong Nguyen , Shrikanth Narayanan

Existing methods of multi-person video 3D human Pose and Shape Estimation (PSE) typically adopt a two-stage strategy, which first detects human instances in each frame and then performs single-person PSE with temporal model. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Zhongwei Qiu , Yang Qiansheng , Jian Wang , Haocheng Feng , Junyu Han , Errui Ding , Chang Xu , Dongmei Fu , Jingdong Wang

The task of action detection aims at deducing both the action category and localization of the start and end moment for each action instance in a long, untrimmed video. While vision Transformers have driven the recent advances in video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Yuetian Weng , Zizheng Pan , Mingfei Han , Xiaojun Chang , Bohan Zhuang

Pose-guided person image generation and animation aim to transform a source person image to target poses. These tasks require spatial manipulation of source data. However, Convolutional Neural Networks are limited by the lack of ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Yurui Ren , Ge Li , Shan Liu , Thomas H. Li

Predicting pedestrian behavior is challenging yet crucial for applications such as autonomous driving and smart city. Recent deep learning models have achieved remarkable performance in making accurate predictions, but they fail to provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Yan Feng , Alexander Carballo , Kazuya Takeda

Stochastic particle--based models are useful tools for describing the collective movement of large crowds of pedestrians in crowded confined environments. Using descriptions based on the simple exclusion process, two populations of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Emilio N. M. Cirillo , Matteo Colangeli , Adrian Muntean , T. K. Thoa Thieu

Segments in computer vision are often defined by semantic considerations and are highly dependent on category-specific conventions. In contrast, developmental psychology suggests that humans perceive the world in terms of Spelke…