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Videos are unique in their ability to capture actions which transcend multiple frames. Accordingly, for many years action recognition was the quintessential task for video understanding. Unfortunately, due to a lack of sufficiently diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Tanush Yadav , Mohammadreza Salehi , Jae Sung Park , Vivek Ramanujan , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Yejin Choi , Ali Farhadi , Rohun Tripathi , Ranjay Krishna

Precisely evaluating semantic alignment between text prompts and generated videos remains a challenge in Text-to-Video (T2V) Generation. Existing text-to-video alignment metrics like CLIPScore only generate coarse-grained scores without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Kaisi Guan , Zhengfeng Lai , Yuchong Sun , Peng Zhang , Wei Liu , Kieran Liu , Meng Cao , Ruihua Song

In this paper, we propose Concentrate and Concentrate (CaC), a coarse-to-fine anomaly reward model based on Vision-Language Models. During inference, it first conducts a global temporal scan to anchor anomalous time windows, then performs…

Computer-Use Agents (CUAs) are emerging as a new paradigm in human-computer interaction, enabling autonomous execution of tasks in desktop environment by perceiving high-level natural-language instructions. As such agents become…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Marta Sumyk , Oleksandr Kosovan

While recent multimodal models have shown progress in vision-language tasks, small-scale variants still struggle with the fine-grained temporal reasoning required for video understanding. We introduce ReasonAct, a method that enhances video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Jiaxin Liu , Zhaolu Kang

Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has driven recent progress in code large language models by leveraging execution-based feedback from unit tests, but its scalability is fundamentally constrained by the availability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xiao Zhu , Xinyu Zhou , Boyu Zhu , Hanxu Hu , Mingzhe Du , Haotian Zhang , Huiming Wang , Zhijiang Guo

Continual learning has recently attracted attention from the research community, as it aims to solve long-standing limitations of classic supervisedly-trained models. However, most research on this subject has tackled continual learning in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Giulia Castagnolo , Concetto Spampinato , Francesco Rundo , Daniela Giordano , Simone Palazzo

Agentic AI systems execute a sequence of actions, such as reasoning steps or tool calls, in response to a user prompt. To evaluate the success of their trajectories, researchers have developed verifiers, such as LLM judges and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Shuvom Sadhuka , Drew Prinster , Clara Fannjiang , Gabriele Scalia , Bonnie Berger , Aviv Regev , Hanchen Wang

This paper investigates the problem of understanding dynamic 3D scenes from egocentric observations, a key challenge in robotics and embodied AI. Unlike prior studies that explored this as long-form video understanding and utilized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Yue Fan , Xiaojian Ma , Rongpeng Su , Jun Guo , Rujie Wu , Xi Chen , Qing Li

For a general-purpose robot to operate in reality, executing a broad range of instructions across various environments is imperative. Central to the reinforcement learning and planning for such robotic agents is a generalizable reward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yanting Yang , Minghao Chen , Qibo Qiu , Jiahao Wu , Wenxiao Wang , Binbin Lin , Ziyu Guan , Xiaofei He

Understanding the structure of complex activities in untrimmed videos is a challenging task in the area of action recognition. One problem here is that this task usually requires a large amount of hand-annotated minute- or even hour-long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Rosaura G. VidalMata , Walter J. Scheirer , Anna Kukleva , David Cox , Hilde Kuehne

In this paper, we introduce an attribution method for explaining action recognition models. Such models fuse information from multiple frames within a video, through score aggregation or relational reasoning. We break down a model's class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Will Price , Dima Damen

Human videos offer a scalable way to train robot manipulation policies, but lack the action labels needed by standard imitation learning algorithms. Existing cross-embodiment approaches try to map human motion to robot actions, but often…

We train models to Predict Ego-centric Video from human Actions (PEVA), given the past video and an action represented by the relative 3D body pose. By conditioning on kinematic pose trajectories, structured by the joint hierarchy of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Yutong Bai , Danny Tran , Amir Bar , Yann LeCun , Trevor Darrell , Jitendra Malik

Imitation learning allows agents to learn complex behaviors from demonstrations. However, learning a complex vision-based task may require an impractical number of demonstrations. Meta-imitation learning is a promising approach towards…

Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has been widely adopted as the de facto method for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models and has demonstrated notable success in verifiable domains like math and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Jeff Da , Clinton Wang , Xiang Deng , Yuntao Ma , Nikhil Barhate , Sean Hendryx

Nuanced expressiveness, particularly through fine-grained hand and facial expressions, is pivotal for enhancing the realism and vitality of digital human representations. In this work, we focus on investigating the expressiveness of human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Hezhen Hu , Zhiwen Fan , Tianhao Wu , Yihan Xi , Seoyoung Lee , Georgios Pavlakos , Zhangyang Wang

Photorealistic Codec Avatars (PCA), which generate high-fidelity human face renderings, are increasingly being used in Virtual Reality (VR) environments to enable immersive communication and interaction through deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Mingzhi Zhu , Ding Shang , Sai Qian Zhang

Ultrasound acquisition requires skilled probe manipulation and real-time adjustments. Vision-language models (VLMs) could enable autonomous ultrasound systems, but existing benchmarks evaluate only static images, not dynamic procedural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Xucheng Wang , Xiaoman Zhang , Sung Eun Kim , Ankit Pal , Pranav Rajpurkar

Learning rewards from expert videos offers an affordable and effective solution to specify the intended behaviors for reinforcement learning (RL) tasks. In this work, we propose Diffusion Reward, a novel framework that learns rewards from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Tao Huang , Guangqi Jiang , Yanjie Ze , Huazhe Xu