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We present a meta-learning framework for weakly supervised anomaly detection in videos, where the detector learns to adapt to unseen types of abnormal activities effectively when only video-level annotations of binary labels are available.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Jaeyoo Park , Junha Kim , Bohyung Han

Accurate characterization of the equilibrium distributions of complex molecular systems and their dependence on environmental factors such as temperature is essential for understanding thermodynamic properties and transition mechanisms.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yunrui Qiu , Richard John , Lukas Herron , Pratyush Tiwary

We focus on the problem of imitation learning from visual observations, where the learning agent has access to videos of experts as its sole learning source. The challenges of this framework include the absence of expert actions and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Vittorio Giammarino , James Queeney , Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis

We introduce Latent Action Pretraining for general Action models (LAPA), an unsupervised method for pretraining Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models without ground-truth robot action labels. Existing Vision-Language-Action models require…

In this work, we focus on label efficient learning for video action detection. We develop a novel semi-supervised active learning approach which utilizes both labeled as well as unlabeled data along with informative sample selection for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Ayush Singh , Aayush J Rana , Akash Kumar , Shruti Vyas , Yogesh Singh Rawat

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) holds promise as a means to learn high-reward policies from a static dataset, without the need for further environment interactions. However, a key challenge in offline RL lies in effectively stitching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Siddarth Venkatraman , Shivesh Khaitan , Ravi Tej Akella , John Dolan , Jeff Schneider , Glen Berseth

Modeling the mechanics of fluid in complex scenes is vital to applications in design, graphics, and robotics. Learning-based methods provide fast and differentiable fluid simulators, however most prior work is unable to accurately model how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Arjun Mani , Ishaan Preetam Chandratreya , Elliot Creager , Carl Vondrick , Richard Zemel

Traffic flow forecasting aims to predict future traffic flows based on the historical traffic conditions and the road network. It is an important problem in intelligent transportation systems, with a plethora of methods been proposed.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Yusheng Zhao , Xiao Luo , Haomin Wen , Zhiping Xiao , Wei Ju , Ming Zhang

Learning reliable motion representation between consecutive frames, such as optical flow, has proven to have great promotion to video understanding. However, the TV-L1 method, an effective optical flow solver, is time-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Xiaohang Yang , Lingtong Kong , Jie Yang

Current methods in training and benchmarking vision models exhibit an over-reliance on passive, curated datasets. Although models trained on these datasets have shown strong performance in a wide variety of tasks such as classification,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Xinran Liang , Anthony Han , Wilson Yan , Aditi Raghunathan , Pieter Abbeel

Latent Action Models (LAMs) have emerged as an effective paradigm for handling heterogeneous datasets during Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model pretraining, offering a unified action space across embodiments. However, existing LAMs often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Qiwei Li , Xicheng Gong , Xinghang Li , Peiyan Li , Quanyun Zhou , Hangjun Ye , Jiahuan Zhou , Yadong Mu

Unsupervised learning of latent motion from Internet videos is crucial for robot learning. Existing discrete methods generally mitigate the shortcut learning caused by extracting excessive static backgrounds through vector quantization with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Jiange Yang , Yansong Shi , Haoyi Zhu , Mingyu Liu , Kaijing Ma , Yating Wang , Gangshan Wu , Tong He , Limin Wang

Robust and accurate perception of humans in their 3D scene context is essential for integrating robots into everyday environments. Existing approaches, however, often fail to predict plausible and accurate human motion estimates that are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Simon Schaefer , Joshua Näf , Stefan Leutenegger

In the context of safe exploration, Reinforcement Learning (RL) has long grappled with the challenges of balancing the tradeoff between maximizing rewards and minimizing safety violations, particularly in complex environments with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Simon Sinong Zhan , Yixuan Wang , Qingyuan Wu , Ruochen Jiao , Chao Huang , Qi Zhu

This paper presents a simple, self-supervised method for magnifying subtle motions in video: given an input video and a magnification factor, we manipulate the video such that its new optical flow is scaled by the desired amount. To train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Zhaoying Pan , Daniel Geng , Andrew Owens

Humans perceive actions through key transitions that structure actions across multiple abstraction levels, whereas machines, relying on visual features, tend to over-segment. This highlights the difficulty of enabling hierarchical reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Junxian Huang , Ruichu Cai , Hao Zhu , Juntao Fang , Boyan Xu , Weilin Chen , Zijian Li , Shenghua Gao

We introduce FALCON, a unified self-supervised video pretraining approach for UAV action recognition from raw RGB aerial footage, requiring no additional preprocessing at inference. UAV videos exhibit severe spatial imbalance: large,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Ruiqi Xian , Xiyang Wu , Tianrui Guan , Xijun Wang , Boqing Gong , Dinesh Manocha

Intelligent agents can learn to represent the action spaces of other agents simply by observing them act. Such representations help agents quickly learn to predict the effects of their own actions on the environment and to plan complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Oleh Rybkin , Karl Pertsch , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Kostas Daniilidis , Andrew Jaegle

We propose a novel method for learning convolutional neural image representations without manual supervision. We use motion cues in the form of optical flow, to supervise representations of static images. The obvious approach of training a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Aravindh Mahendran , James Thewlis , Andrea Vedaldi

The rapid development of autonomous vehicles (AVs) holds vast potential for transportation systems through improved safety, efficiency, and access to mobility. However, the progression of these impacts, as AVs are adopted, is not well…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Cathy Wu , Aboudy Kreidieh , Kanaad Parvate , Eugene Vinitsky , Alexandre M Bayen