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In recent years, there has been a rapid development of spatio-temporal prediction techniques in response to the increasing demands of traffic management and travel planning. While advanced end-to-end models have achieved notable success in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Zhonghang Li , Lianghao Xia , Yong Xu , Chao Huang

Recent advances in Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have showcased remarkable capabilities in vision-language understanding. However, enabling robust video spatial reasoning-the ability to comprehend object locations, orientations,…

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Most existing spatial reasoning benchmarks focus on static or globally observable environments, failing to capture the challenges of long-horizon reasoning and memory utilization under partial observability and dynamic changes. We introduce…

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Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have recently shown strong performance in basic video understanding tasks, such as captioning and coarse-grained question answering, but struggle with compositional reasoning that requires multi-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Haiyi Qiu , Minghe Gao , Long Qian , Kaihang Pan , Qifan Yu , Juncheng Li , Wenjie Wang , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang , Tat-Seng Chua

Conversational agents must translate egocentric utterances (e.g., "on my right") into allocentric orientations (N/E/S/W). This challenge is particularly critical in indoor or complex facilities where GPS signals are weak and detailed maps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yu Ti Huang

Robotic generalization relies on physical intelligence: the ability to reason about state changes, contact-rich interactions, and long-horizon planning under egocentric perception and action. Vision Language Models (VLMs) are essential to…

Genuine spatial reasoning relies on the capacity to construct and manipulate coherent internal spatial representations, often conceptualized as mental models, rather than merely processing surface linguistic associations. While large…

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Recent advances in deep thinking models have demonstrated remarkable reasoning capabilities on mathematical and coding tasks. However, their effectiveness in embodied domains which require continuous interaction with environments through…

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Procedure learning involves identifying the key-steps and determining their logical order to perform a task. Existing approaches commonly use third-person videos for learning the procedure, making the manipulated object small in appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Siddhant Bansal , Chetan Arora , C. V. Jawahar

Establishing object-level correspondence between egocentric and exocentric views is essential for intelligent assistants to deliver precise and intuitive visual guidance. However, this task faces numerous challenges, including extreme…

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A key objective of embodied intelligence is enabling agents to perform long-horizon tasks in dynamic environments while maintaining robust decision-making and adaptability. To achieve this goal, we propose the Spatio-Temporal Memory Agent…

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Current End-to-End Autonomous Driving (E2E-AD) methods resort to unifying modular designs for various tasks (e.g. perception, prediction and planning). Although optimized with a fully differentiable framework in a planning-oriented manner,…

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Long context egocentric video understanding has recently attracted significant research attention, with augmented reality (AR) highlighted as one of its most important application domains. Nevertheless, the task remains highly challenging…

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Operating rooms (ORs) demand precise coordination among surgeons, nurses, and equipment in a fast-paced, occlusion-heavy environment, necessitating advanced perception models to enhance safety and efficiency. Existing datasets either…

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The goal of the Step Grounding task is to locate temporal boundaries of activities based on natural language descriptions. This technical report introduces a Bayesian-VSLNet to address the challenge of identifying such temporal segments in…

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We present EMBED (Egocentric Models Built with Exocentric Data), a method designed to transform exocentric video-language data for egocentric video representation learning. Large-scale exocentric data covers diverse activities with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Zi-Yi Dou , Xitong Yang , Tushar Nagarajan , Huiyu Wang , Jing Huang , Nanyun Peng , Kris Kitani , Fu-Jen Chu

Robotic manipulation is often specified through language instructions or task identifiers, yet cluttered environments with similar objects are better handled by spatially indicating what to move and where to place it. Addressing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yifan Li , Xinyu Zhou , Yunhao Ge , Yu Kong

Correlated time series analysis plays an important role in many real-world industries. Learning an efficient representation of this large-scale data for further downstream tasks is necessary but challenging. In this paper, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Luxuan Wang , Lei Bai , Ziyue Li , Rui Zhao , Fugee Tsung

We introduce a gradient-based approach for learning task graphs from procedural activities, improving over hand-crafted methods. Our method directly optimizes edge weights via maximum likelihood, enabling integration into neural…

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Despite recent successes, test-time scaling - i.e., dynamically expanding the token budget during inference as needed - remains brittle for vision-language models (VLMs): unstructured chains-of-thought about images entangle perception and…

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