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In visual Reinforcement Learning (RL), upstream representation learning largely determines the effect of downstream policy learning. Employing auxiliary tasks allows the agent to enhance visual representation in a targeted manner, thereby…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Xin Liu , Yaran Chen , Dongbin Zhao

Learning transferable latent actions from large-scale object manipulation videos can significantly enhance generalization in downstream robotics tasks, as such representations are agnostic to different robot embodiments. Existing approaches…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zuolei Li , Xingyu Gao , Xiaofan Wang , Jianlong Fu

Stochastic video generation is particularly challenging when the camera is mounted on a moving platform, as camera motion interacts with observed image pixels, creating complex spatio-temporal dynamics and making the problem partially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Meenakshi Sarkar , Devansh Bhardwaj , Debasish Ghose

In this paper, we propose Spatio-TEmporal Progressive (STEP) action detector---a progressive learning framework for spatio-temporal action detection in videos. Starting from a handful of coarse-scale proposal cuboids, our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Xitong Yang , Xiaodong Yang , Ming-Yu Liu , Fanyi Xiao , Larry Davis , Jan Kautz

We propose C-LAIfO, a computationally efficient algorithm designed for imitation learning from videos in the presence of visual mismatch between agent and expert domains. We analyze the problem of imitation from expert videos with visual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Vittorio Giammarino , James Queeney , Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis

Despite recent progress in reinforcement learning (RL) from raw pixel data, sample inefficiency continues to present a substantial obstacle. Prior works have attempted to address this challenge by creating self-supervised auxiliary tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Ruijie Zheng , Xiyao Wang , Yanchao Sun , Shuang Ma , Jieyu Zhao , Huazhe Xu , Hal Daumé , Furong Huang

Learning long-horizon robotic manipulation requires jointly achieving expressive behavior modeling, real-time inference, and stable execution, which remains challenging for existing generative policies. Diffusion-based approaches offer…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Wu Songwei , Jiang Zhiduo , Sun Wandong , Xie Guanghu , Zhao Rui , Liu Hong , Liu Yang

Instruction-following LLMs have recently allowed systems to discover hidden concepts from a collection of unstructured documents based on a natural language description of the purpose of the discovery (i.e., goal). Still, the quality of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Zhouhang Xie , Tushar Khot , Bhavana Dalvi Mishra , Harshit Surana , Julian McAuley , Peter Clark , Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder

Optical flow estimation is a crucial subfield of computer vision, serving as a foundation for video tasks. However, the real-world robustness is limited by animated synthetic datasets for training. This introduces domain gaps when applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yingping Liang , Ying Fu , Yutao Hu , Wenqi Shao , Jiaming Liu , Debing Zhang

Existing methods to recognize actions in static images take the images at their face value, learning the appearances---objects, scenes, and body poses---that distinguish each action class. However, such models are deprived of the rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Ruohan Gao , Bo Xiong , Kristen Grauman

The recent success in human action recognition with deep learning methods mostly adopt the supervised learning paradigm, which requires significant amount of manually labeled data to achieve good performance. However, label collection is an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Junnan Li , Yongkang Wong , Qi Zhao , Mohan S. Kankanhalli

Understanding human behavior is an important problem in the pursuit of visual intelligence. A challenge in this endeavor is the extensive and costly effort required to accurately label action segments. To address this issue, we consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Seth Z. Zhao , Reza Ghoddoosian , Isht Dwivedi , Nakul Agarwal , Behzad Dariush

Video prediction is a fundamental task for various downstream applications, including robotics and world modeling. Although general video prediction models have achieved remarkable performance in standard scenarios, occlusion is still an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Eliyas Suleyman , Paul Henderson , Eksan Firkat , Nicolas Pugeault

Learning predictive world models from visual observations is a core problem in embodied AI, with applications to model-based reinforcement learning and robotic planning. Existing latent world models typically generate future states with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Qixin Xiao , Maani Ghaffari

Self-supervised learning (SSL) of graph neural networks is emerging as a promising way of leveraging unlabeled data. Currently, most methods are based on contrastive learning adapted from the image domain, which requires view generation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Yaochen Xie , Zhao Xu , Shuiwang Ji

Enhancing the efficiency of high-quality image generation using Diffusion Models (DMs) is a significant challenge due to the iterative nature of the process. Flow Matching (FM) is emerging as a powerful generative modeling paradigm based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Pascal Zwick , Nils Friederich , Maximilian Beichter , Lennart Hilbert , Ralf Mikut , Oliver Bringmann

Underwater imaging is fundamentally challenging due to wavelength-dependent light attenuation, strong scattering from suspended particles, turbidity-induced blur, and non-uniform illumination. These effects impair standard cameras and make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Nick Truong , Pritam P. Karmokar , William J. Beksi

Latent actions serve as an intermediate representation that enables consistent modeling of vision-language-action (VLA) models across heterogeneous datasets. However, approaches to supervising VLAs with latent actions are fragmented and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yihan Lin , Haoyang Li , Yang Li , Haitao Shen , Yihan Zhao , Chao Shao , Jing Zhang

Real-time moving object detection in unconstrained scenes is a difficult task due to dynamic background, changing foreground appearance and limited computational resource. In this paper, an optical flow based moving object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Junjie Huang , Wei Zou , Jiagang Zhu , Zheng Zhu

In this work, we propose a novel framework for unsupervised learning for event cameras that learns motion information from only the event stream. In particular, we propose an input representation of the events in the form of a discretized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Alex Zihao Zhu , Liangzhe Yuan , Kenneth Chaney , Kostas Daniilidis