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Optimal transport has been an essential tool for reconstructing dynamics from complex data. With the increasingly available multifaceted data, a system can often be characterized across multiple spaces. Therefore, it is crucial to maintain…

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Weakly-supervised temporal action localization aims to recognize and localize action segments in untrimmed videos given only video-level action labels for training. Without the boundary information of action segments, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Bo He , Xitong Yang , Le Kang , Zhiyu Cheng , Xin Zhou , Abhinav Shrivastava

Temporal action segmentation (TAS) demands dense temporal supervision, yet most of the annotation cost in untrimmed videos is spent identifying and refining action transitions, where segmentation errors concentrate and small temporal shifts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Halil Ismail Helvaci , Sen-ching Samson Cheung

In temporal action segmentation, Timestamp supervision requires only a handful of labelled frames per video sequence. For unlabelled frames, previous works rely on assigning hard labels, and performance rapidly collapses under subtle…

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Advances in surgical video analysis are transforming operating rooms into intelligent, data-driven environments. Computer-assisted systems support full surgical workflow, from preoperative planning to intraoperative guidance and…

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Scene segmentation is widely used in the field of autonomous driving for environment perception, and semantic scene segmentation (3S) has received a great deal of attention due to the richness of the semantic information it contains. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Yaqian Guo , Xin Wang , Ce Li , Shihui Ying

Open-Vocabulary Temporal Action Detection (OV-TAD) aims to classify and localize action segments in untrimmed videos for unseen categories. Previous methods rely solely on global alignment between label-level semantics and visual features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Sa Zhu , Wanqian Zhang , Lin Wang , Xiaohua Chen , Chenxu Cui , Jinchao Zhang , Bo Li

Semantic Segmentation is one of the most challenging vision tasks, usually requiring large amounts of training data with expensive pixel level annotations. With the success of foundation models and especially vision-language models, recent…

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Skeleton-based Temporal Action Segmentation (STAS) aims to segment and recognize various actions from long, untrimmed sequences of human skeletal movements. Current STAS methods typically employ spatio-temporal modeling to establish…

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Existing zero-shot temporal action detection (ZSTAD) methods predominantly use fully supervised or unsupervised strategies to recognize unseen activities. However, these training-based methods are prone to domain shifts and require high…

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The use of Autonomous Surface Vessels (ASVs) is growing rapidly. For safe and efficient surface auto-driving, a reliable perception system is crucial. Such systems allow the vessels to sense their surroundings and make decisions based on…

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Data scarcity and the modality gap between the speech and text modalities are two major obstacles of end-to-end Speech Translation (ST) systems, thus hindering their performance. Prior work has attempted to mitigate these challenges by…

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Fully supervised Video Semantic Segmentation (VSS) relies heavily on densely annotated video data, limiting practical applicability. Alternatively, applying pre-trained Image Semantic Segmentation (ISS) models frame-by-frame avoids…

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Surgical phase segmentation is central to computer-assisted surgery, yet robust models remain difficult to develop when labeled surgical videos are scarce. We study data-efficient phase segmentation for manual small-incision cataract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Lincoln Spencer , Song Wang , Chen Chen

We propose AnyTOD, an end-to-end, zero-shot task-oriented dialog (TOD) system capable of handling unseen tasks without task-specific training. We view TOD as a program executed by a language model (LM), where program logic and ontology is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Jeffrey Zhao , Yuan Cao , Raghav Gupta , Harrison Lee , Abhinav Rastogi , Mingqiu Wang , Hagen Soltau , Izhak Shafran , Yonghui Wu

Foundation models have attracted widespread attention across domains due to their powerful zero-shot classification capabilities. This work is motivated by two key observations: (1) \textit{Vision-Language Models} (VLMs), such as CLIP,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Zhanxuan Hu , Qiyu Xu , Yu Duan , Yonghang Tai , Huafeng Li

Entropic optimal transport (EOT) in continuous spaces with quadratic cost is a classical tool for solving the domain translation problem. In practice, recent approaches optimize a weak dual EOT objective depending on a single potential, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Roman Dyachenko , Nikita Gushchin , Kirill Sokolov , Petr Mokrov , Evgeny Burnaev , Alexander Korotin

Robot-assisted surgeries rely on accurate and real-time scene understanding to safely guide surgical instruments. However, segmentation models trained on static datasets face key limitations when deployed in these dynamic and evolving…

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Single-cell RNA-sequencing captures a temporal slice, or a snapshot, of a cell differentiation process. A major bioinformatical challenge is the inference of differentiation trajectories from a single snapshot, and methods that account for…

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