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Recent advances in object segmentation have demonstrated that deep neural networks excel at object segmentation for specific classes in color and depth images. However, their performance is dictated by the number of classes and objects used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Chahat Deep Singh , Nitin J. Sanket , Chethan M. Parameshwara , Cornelia Fermüller , Yiannis Aloimonos

Automated recognition of surgical phases and steps is a fundamental capability for intraoperative decision support, workflow automation, and skill assessment in robotic-assisted surgery. Existing approaches either depend on large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Omar Mohamed , Edoardo Fazzari , Ayah Al-Naji , Hamdan Alhadhrami , Khalfan Hableel , Saif Alkindi , Ivan Laptev , Cesare Stefanini

Medical image segmentation is vital for clinical diagnosis, yet current deep learning methods often demand extensive expert effort, i.e., either through annotating large training datasets or providing prompts at inference time for each new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Xingjian Li , Qifeng Wu , Adithya S. Ubaradka , Yiran Ding , Colleen Que , Runmin Jiang , Jianhua Xing , Tianyang Wang , Min Xu

Video action localization aims to find the timings of specific actions from a long video. Although existing learning-based approaches have been successful, they require annotating videos, which comes with a considerable labor cost. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Naoki Wake , Atsushi Kanehira , Kazuhiro Sasabuchi , Jun Takamatsu , Katsushi Ikeuchi

Text-to-motion generation is an emerging and challenging problem, which aims to synthesize motion with the same semantics as the input text. However, due to the lack of diverse labeled training data, most approaches either limit to specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Junfan Lin , Jianlong Chang , Lingbo Liu , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin , Qi Tian , Chang Wen Chen

Generating 3D human motions from textual descriptions is an important research problem with broad applications in video games, virtual reality, and augmented reality. Recent methods align the textual description with human motion at the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Bowen Dang , Lin Wu , Xiaohang Yang , Zheng Yuan , Zhixiang Chen

Interpreting object-referential language and grounding objects in 3D with spatial relations and attributes is essential for robots operating alongside humans. However, this task is often challenging due to the diversity of scenes, large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Nader Zantout , Haochen Zhang , Pujith Kachana , Jinkai Qiu , Guofei Chen , Ji Zhang , Wenshan Wang

Dense video captioning, a task of localizing meaningful moments and generating relevant captions for videos, often requires a large, expensive corpus of annotated video segments paired with text. In an effort to minimize the annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Yongrae Jo , Seongyun Lee , Aiden SJ Lee , Hyunji Lee , Hanseok Oh , Minjoon Seo

We present lazy visual grounding, a two-stage approach of unsupervised object mask discovery followed by object grounding, for open-vocabulary semantic segmentation. Plenty of the previous art casts this task as pixel-to-text classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Dahyun Kang , Minsu Cho

Though the advancement of pre-trained large language models unfolds, the exploration of building a unified model for language and other multi-modal data, such as motion, remains challenging and untouched so far. Fortunately, human motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Biao Jiang , Xin Chen , Wen Liu , Jingyi Yu , Gang Yu , Tao Chen

Recent vision-language pre-training models have exhibited remarkable generalization ability in zero-shot recognition tasks. Previous open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding methods mostly focus on training 3D models using either image or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Ruihuang Li , Zhengqiang Zhang , Chenhang He , Zhiyuan Ma , Vishal M. Patel , Lei Zhang

Vision-language foundation models have shown impressive capabilities across various zero-shot tasks, including training-free localization and grounding, primarily focusing on localizing objects in images. However, leveraging those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Felix Vogel , Walid Bousselham , Anna Kukleva , Nina Shvetsova , Hilde Kuehne

Understanding human actions from visual observations is essential for human--robot interaction, particularly when semantic interpretation of unfamiliar or hard-to-annotate actions is required. In scenarios such as rapid and less common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Yongpeng Cao , Yuji Yamakawa

Object navigation (ObjectNav) requires an agent to navigate through unseen environments to find queried objects. Many previous methods attempted to solve this task by relying on supervised or reinforcement learning, where they are trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yuxuan Kuang , Hai Lin , Meng Jiang

Zero-shot skeleton-based action recognition aims to recognize unseen actions by transferring knowledge from seen categories through semantic descriptions. Most existing methods typically align skeleton features with textual embeddings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Ning Wang , Tieyue Wu , Naeha Sharif , Farid Boussaid , Guangming Zhu , Lin Mei , Mohammed Bennamoun , zhang liang

Spatio-temporal video grounding (STVG) aims at localizing the spatio-temporal tube of a video, as specified by the input text query. In this paper, we utilize multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to explore a zero-shot solution in STVG.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Zaiquan Yang , Yuhao Liu , Gerhard Hancke , Rynson W. H. Lau

The fusion of vision and language has brought about a transformative shift in computer vision through the emergence of Vision-Language Models (VLMs). However, the resource-intensive nature of existing VLMs poses a significant challenge. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Jordan Shipard , Arnold Wiliem , Kien Nguyen Thanh , Wei Xiang , Clinton Fookes

In this paper, we consider the problem of temporal action localization under low-shot (zero-shot & few-shot) scenario, with the goal of detecting and classifying the action instances from arbitrary categories within some untrimmed videos,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Chen Ju , Zeqian Li , Peisen Zhao , Ya Zhang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Qi Tian , Yanfeng Wang , Weidi Xie

The ability to grasp objects in-the-wild from open-ended language instructions constitutes a fundamental challenge in robotics. An open-world grasping system should be able to combine high-level contextual with low-level physical-geometric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Georgios Tziafas , Hamidreza Kasaei

The goal of this paper is to recognize actions in video without the need for examples. Different from traditional zero-shot approaches we do not demand the design and specification of attribute classifiers and class-to-attribute mappings to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-26 Mihir Jain , Jan C. van Gemert , Thomas Mensink , Cees G. M. Snoek