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Inferring physical actions from visual observations is a fundamental capability for advancing machine intelligence in the physical world. Achieving this requires large-scale, open-vocabulary video action datasets that span broad domains. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Delong Chen , Tejaswi Kasarla , Yejin Bang , Mustafa Shukor , Willy Chung , Jade Yu , Allen Bolourchi , Theo Moutakanni , Pascale Fung

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in video captioning tasks, particularly for short videos. However, as the length of the video increases, generating long, detailed captions becomes a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Hongchen Wei , Zhihong Tan , Yaosi Hu , Chang Wen Chen , Zhenzhong Chen

Automatic video description requires the generation of natural language statements about the actions, events, and objects in the video. An important human trait, when we describe a video, is that we are able to do this with variable levels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Fatemeh Ziaeetabar , Reza Safabakhsh , Saeedeh Momtazi , Minija Tamosiunaite , Florentin Wörgötter

Humor, deeply rooted in societal meanings and cultural details, poses a unique challenge for machines. While advances have been made in natural language processing, real-world humor often thrives in a multi-modal context, encapsulated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Yuyan Chen , Songzhou Yan , Zhihong Zhu , Zhixu Li , Yanghua Xiao

Amodal segmentation and amodal content completion require using object priors to estimate occluded masks and features of objects in complex scenes. Until now, no data has provided an additional dimension for object context: the possibility…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Alexander Moore , Amar Saini , Kylie Cancilla , Doug Poland , Carmen Carrano

Text-to-video (T2V) generation has made tremendous progress in generating complicated scenes based on texts. However, human-object interaction (HOI) often cannot be precisely generated by current T2V models due to the lack of large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Kun Liu , Qi Liu , Xinchen Liu , Jie Li , Yongdong Zhang , Jiebo Luo , Xiaodong He , Wu Liu

Video captioning is a popular task that challenges models to describe events in videos using natural language. In this work, we investigate the ability of various visual feature representations derived from state-of-the-art convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Praveen S , Akhilesh Bharadwaj , Harsh Raj , Janhavi Dadhania , Ganesh Samarth C. A , Nikhil Pareek , S R M Prasanna

In the domain of video surveillance, describing the behavior of each individual within the video is becoming increasingly essential, especially in complex scenarios with multiple individuals present. This is because describing each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Lingru Zhou , Yiqi Gao , Manqing Zhang , Peng Wu , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

Video captions play a crucial role in text-to-video generation tasks, as their quality directly influences the semantic coherence and visual fidelity of the generated videos. Although large vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Shi-Xue Zhang , Hongfa Wang , Duojun Huang , Xin Li , Xiaobin Zhu , Xu-Cheng Yin

We introduce MotionScript, a novel framework for generating highly detailed, natural language descriptions of 3D human motions. Unlike existing motion datasets that rely on broad action labels or generic captions, MotionScript provides…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Payam Jome Yazdian , Rachel Lagasse , Hamid Mohammadi , Eric Liu , Li Cheng , Angelica Lim

Video captioning is a challenging task since it requires generating sentences describing various diverse and complex videos. Existing video captioning models lack adequate visual representation due to the neglect of the existence of gaps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Mingkang Tang , Zhanyu Wang , Zhenhua Liu , Fengyun Rao , Dian Li , Xiu Li

We introduce MoCA, a Motion-Conditioned Image Animation approach for video editing. It leverages a simple decomposition of the video editing problem into image editing followed by motion-conditioned image animation. Furthermore, given the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Wilson Yan , Andrew Brown , Pieter Abbeel , Rohit Girdhar , Samaneh Azadi

Multi-modal transformers are rapidly gaining attention in video captioning tasks. Existing multi-modal video captioning methods typically extract a fixed number of frames, which raises critical challenges. When a limited number of frames…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Sangho Lee , Il Yong Chun , Hogun Park

This paper introduces a novel approach to enhance existing motion captioning methods, which directly map representations of movement to high-level descriptive captions (e.g., ``a person doing jumping jacks"). The existing methods require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Clayton Leite , Yu Xiao

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

With advances in data-driven machine learning research, a wide variety of prediction models have been proposed to capture spatio-temporal features for the analysis of video streams. Recognising actions and detecting action transitions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Harshala Gammulle , David Ahmedt-Aristizabal , Simon Denman , Lachlan Tychsen-Smith , Lars Petersson , Clinton Fookes

Human-scene vision-language tasks are increasingly prevalent in diverse social applications, yet recent advancements predominantly rely on models specifically tailored to individual tasks. Emerging research indicates that large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Dawei Dai , Xu Long , Li Yutang , Zhang Yuanhui , Shuyin Xia

Recent advances in vision-language models have led to impressive progress in caption generation for images and short video clips. However, these models remain constrained by their limited temporal receptive fields, making it difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Sanghyeok Chu , Seonguk Seo , Bohyung Han

Despite substantial progress in video understanding, most existing datasets are limited to Earth's gravitational conditions. However, microgravity alters human motion, interactions, and visual semantics, revealing a critical gap for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Di Wen , Lei Qi , Kunyu Peng , Kailun Yang , Fei Teng , Ao Luo , Jia Fu , Yufan Chen , Ruiping Liu , Yitian Shi , M. Saquib Sarfraz , Rainer Stiefelhagen

This paper strives for motion-focused video-language representations. Existing methods to learn video-language representations use spatial-focused data, where identifying the objects and scene is often enough to distinguish the relevant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Hazel Doughty , Fida Mohammad Thoker , Cees G. M. Snoek