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Temporal prediction is inherently uncertain, but representing the ambiguity in natural image sequences is a challenging high-dimensional probabilistic inference problem. For natural scenes, the curse of dimensionality renders explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Pierre-Étienne H. Fiquet , Eero P. Simoncelli

Decentralized deployment of drone swarms usually relies on inter-agent communication or visual markers that are mounted on the vehicles to simplify their mutual detection. This letter proposes a vision-based detection and tracking algorithm…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Fabian Schilling , Fabrizio Schiano , Dario Floreano

Distinguishing visually similar objects by their motion remains a critical challenge in computer vision. Although supervised trackers show promise, contemporary self-supervised trackers struggle when visual cues become ambiguous, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Chenshuang Zhang , Kang Zhang , Joon Son Chung , In So Kweon , Junmo Kim , Chengzhi Mao

In this work we tackle the task of video-based visual emotion recognition in the wild. Standard methodologies that rely solely on the extraction of bodily and facial features often fall short of accurate emotion prediction in cases where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Ioannis Pikoulis , Panagiotis P. Filntisis , Petros Maragos

To plan safe trajectories in urban environments, autonomous vehicles must be able to quickly assess the future intentions of dynamic agents. Pedestrians are particularly challenging to model, as their motion patterns are often uncertain…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Sarah Ferguson , Brandon Luders , Robert C. Grande , Jonathan P. How

The vast majority of visual animals actively control their eyes, heads, and/or bodies to direct their gaze toward different parts of their environment. In contrast, recent applications of reinforcement learning in robotic manipulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Youssef Zaky , Gaurav Paruthi , Bryan Tripp , James Bergstra

Context plays a significant role in the generation of motion for dynamic agents in interactive environments. This work proposes a modular method that utilises a learned model of the environment for motion prediction. This modularity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Todor Davchev , Michael Burke , Subramanian Ramamoorthy

Visual representations play a crucial role in developing generalist robotic policies. Previous vision encoders, typically pre-trained with single-image reconstruction or two-image contrastive learning, tend to capture static information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yucheng Hu , Yanjiang Guo , Pengchao Wang , Xiaoyu Chen , Yen-Jen Wang , Jianke Zhang , Koushil Sreenath , Chaochao Lu , Jianyu Chen

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

Forecasting a typical object's future motion is a critical task for interpreting and interacting with dynamic environments in computer vision. Event-based sensors, which could capture changes in the scene with exceptional temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Song Wu , Zhiyu Zhu , Junhui Hou , Guangming Shi , Jinjian Wu

Studying animal movements is essential for effective wildlife conservation and conflict mitigation. For aerial movements, operational weather radars have become an indispensable data source in this respect. However, partial measurements,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Fiona Lippert , Bart Kranstauber , E. Emiel van Loon , Patrick Forré

All organisms make temporal predictions, and their evolutionary fitness level depends on the accuracy of these predictions. In the context of visual perception, the motions of both the observer and objects in the scene structure the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-05 Pierre-Étienne H. Fiquet , Eero P. Simoncelli

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance in generation tasks. Nevertheless, explaining the diffusion process remains challenging due to it being a sequence of denoising noisy images that are difficult for experts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Ji-Hoon Park , Yeong-Joon Ju , Seong-Whan Lee

We introduce a method for generating realistic pedestrian trajectories and full-body animations that can be controlled to meet user-defined goals. We draw on recent advances in guided diffusion modeling to achieve test-time controllability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Davis Rempe , Zhengyi Luo , Xue Bin Peng , Ye Yuan , Kris Kitani , Karsten Kreis , Sanja Fidler , Or Litany

This paper presents a Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS) based system for reasoning about high speed motion. As a representative scenario, we consider the case of a robot at rest reacting to a small, fast approaching object at speeds higher than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Anthony Bisulco , Fernando Cladera Ojeda , Volkan Isler , Daniel D. Lee

Activity recognition and, more generally, behavior inference tasks are gaining a lot of interest. Much of it is work in the context of human behavior. New available tracking technologies for wild animals are generating datasets that…

Human trajectory forecasting is a critical challenge in fields such as robotics and autonomous driving. Due to the inherent uncertainty of human actions and intentions in real-world scenarios, various unexpected occurrences may arise. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Yuxin Yang , Pengfei Zhu , Mengshi Qi , Huadong Ma

In this paper, we realize automatic visual recognition and direction estimation of pointing. We introduce the first neural pointing understanding method based on two key contributions. The first is the introduction of a first-of-its-kind…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Shu Nakamura , Yasutomo Kawanishi , Shohei Nobuhara , Ko Nishino

Decentralized drone swarms deployed today either rely on sharing of positions among agents or detecting swarm members with the help of visual markers. This work proposes an entirely visual approach to coordinate markerless drone swarms…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Fabian Schilling , Julien Lecoeur , Fabrizio Schiano , Dario Floreano

Animal vision is thought to optimize various objectives from metabolic efficiency to discrimination performance, yet its ultimate objective is to facilitate the survival of the animal within its ecological niche. However, modeling animal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Sacha Sokoloski , Jure Majnik , Philipp Berens