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Group Activity Recognition detects the activity collectively performed by a group of actors, which requires compositional reasoning of actors and objects. We approach the task by modeling the video as tokens that represent the multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Honglu Zhou , Asim Kadav , Aviv Shamsian , Shijie Geng , Farley Lai , Long Zhao , Ting Liu , Mubbasir Kapadia , Hans Peter Graf

Experimental verification has been the method of choice for verifying the stability of a multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithm as the number of agents grows and theoretical analysis becomes prohibitively complex. For…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2009-04-16 Sherief Abdallah

Generating visual instructions in a given context is essential for developing interactive world simulators. While prior works address this problem through either text-guided image manipulation or video prediction, these tasks are typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yujiang Pu , Zhanbo Huang , Vishnu Boddeti , Yu Kong

Designers of autonomous agents, whether in physical or virtual environments, need to express nondeterminisim, failure, and parallelism in behaviors, as well as accounting for synchronous coordination between agents. Behavior Trees are a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Chris Martens , Eric Butler , Joseph C. Osborn

In contrast with classical approaches, we present the project based on considering Collective Behaviours as coherent sequences of states adopted by different single systems consisting of the same elements interacting over time in different…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-10-12 Gianfranco Minati

With the rapid development of the Internet, users have increasingly higher expectations for the recommendation accuracy of online content consumption platforms. However, short videos often contain diverse segments, and users may not hold…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Wenhao Li , Zihan Lin , Zhengxiao Guo , Jie Zhou , Shukai Liu , Yongqi Liu , Chuan Luo , Chaoyi Ma , Ruiming Tang , Han Li

Dynamic patterns are characterized by complex spatial and motion patterns. Understanding dynamic patterns requires a disentangled representational model that separates the factorial components. A commonly used model for dynamic patterns is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Jianwen Xie , Ruiqi Gao , Zilong Zheng , Song-Chun Zhu , Ying Nian Wu

World-Action Models (WAM) initialized from pre-trained video generation backbones have demonstrated remarkable potential for robot policy learning. However, existing approaches face two critical bottlenecks that hinder performance and…

Pretrained video generation models provide strong priors for robot control, but existing unified world action models still struggle to decode reliable actions without substantial robot-specific training. We attribute this limitation to a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Liaoyuan Fan , Zetian Xu , Chen Cao , Wenyao Zhang , Mingqi Yuan , Jiayu Chen

Visual event perception tasks such as action localization have primarily focused on supervised learning settings under a static observer, i.e., the camera is static and cannot be controlled by an algorithm. They are often restricted by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Shubham Trehan , Sathyanarayanan N. Aakur

Detecting actions in untrimmed videos is an important yet challenging task. In this paper, we present the structured segment network (SSN), a novel framework which models the temporal structure of each action instance via a structured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Yue Zhao , Yuanjun Xiong , Limin Wang , Zhirong Wu , Xiaoou Tang , Dahua Lin

Human action analysis and understanding in videos is an important and challenging task. Although substantial progress has been made in past years, the explainability of existing methods is still limited. In this work, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Tao Zhuo , Zhiyong Cheng , Peng Zhang , Yongkang Wong , Mohan Kankanhalli

In this paper, we propose a new, simple, and effective Self-supervised Spatio-temporal Transformers (SPARTAN) approach to Group Activity Recognition (GAR) using unlabeled video data. Given a video, we create local and global Spatio-temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Naga VS Raviteja Chappa , Pha Nguyen , Alexander H Nelson , Han-Seok Seo , Xin Li , Page Daniel Dobbs , Khoa Luu

In this paper, we address the challenge of generating temporally consistent videos with motion guidance. While many existing methods depend on additional control modules or inference-time fine-tuning, recent studies suggest that effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Xinyu Zhang , Zicheng Duan , Dong Gong , Lingqiao Liu

We introduce the Action Transformer model for recognizing and localizing human actions in video clips. We repurpose a Transformer-style architecture to aggregate features from the spatiotemporal context around the person whose actions we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Rohit Girdhar , João Carreira , Carl Doersch , Andrew Zisserman

Many tasks in control, robotics, and planning can be specified using desired goal configurations for various entities in the environment. Learning goal-conditioned policies is a natural paradigm to solve such tasks. However, current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Allan Zhou , Vikash Kumar , Chelsea Finn , Aravind Rajeswaran

Action-conditioned video models offer a promising path to building general-purpose robot simulators that can improve directly from data. Yet, despite training on large-scale robot datasets, current state-of-the-art video models still…

Automatically recognizing activities in video is a classic problem in vision and helps to understand behaviors, describe scenes and detect anomalies. We propose an unsupervised method for such purposes. Given video data, we discover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-12 He Wang , Carol O'Sullivan

Previous group activity recognition approaches were limited to reasoning using human relations or finding important subgroups and tended to ignore indispensable group composition and human-object interactions. This absence makes a partial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Youliang Zhang , Zhuo Zhou , Wenxuan Liu , Danni Xu , Zheng Wang

We propose a method for human action recognition, one that can localize the spatiotemporal regions that `define' the actions. This is a challenging task due to the subtlety of human actions in video and the co-occurrence of contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Yang Wang , Vinh Tran , Gedas Bertasius , Lorenzo Torresani , Minh Hoai