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Semantic segmentation of motion capture sequences plays a key part in many data-driven motion synthesis frameworks. It is a preprocessing step in which long recordings of motion capture sequences are partitioned into smaller segments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Noshaba Cheema , Somayeh Hosseini , Janis Sprenger , Erik Herrmann , Han Du , Klaus Fischer , Philipp Slusallek

Recent deep generative models are able to provide photo-realistic images as well as visual or textual content embeddings useful to address various tasks of computer vision and natural language processing. Their usefulness is nevertheless…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Antoine Plumerault , Hervé Le Borgne , Céline Hudelot

Navigating unknown environments to find a target object is a significant challenge. While semantic information is crucial for navigation, relying solely on it for decision-making may not always be efficient, especially in environments with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Mingjie Zhang , Yuheng Du , Chengkai Wu , Jinni Zhou , Zhenchao Qi , Jun Ma , Boyu Zhou

While diffusion models advance text-to-motion generation, their static semantic conditioning ignores temporal-frequency demands: early denoising requires structural semantics for motion foundations while later stages need localized details…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Wenshuo Chen , Kuimou Yu , Haozhe Jia , Kaishen Yuan , Zexu Huang , Bowen Tian , Songning Lai , Hongru Xiao , Erhang Zhang , Lei Wang , Yutao Yue

Recent works in video prediction have mainly focused on passive forecasting and low-level action-conditional prediction, which sidesteps the learning of interaction between agents and objects. We introduce the task of semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Wei Yu , Wenxin Chen , Songhenh Yin , Steve Easterbrook , Animesh Garg

Motion retargeting is a promising approach for generating natural and compelling animations for nonhuman characters. However, it is challenging to translate human movements into semantically equivalent motions for target characters with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Tianyu Li , Jungdam Won , Alexander Clegg , Jeonghwan Kim , Akshara Rai , Sehoon Ha

Retrieving videos based on semantic motion is a fundamental, yet unsolved, problem. Existing video representation approaches overly rely on static appearance and scene context rather than motion dynamics, a bias inherited from their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Saar Huberman , Kfir Goldberg , Or Patashnik , Sagie Benaim , Ron Mokady

Recent advancements in diffusion models have made a significant breakthrough in generative modeling. The combination of the generative model and semantic communication (SemCom) enables high-fidelity semantic information exchange at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Chunmei Xu , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli

Deep features are a cornerstone of computer vision research, capturing image semantics and enabling the community to solve downstream tasks even in the zero- or few-shot regime. However, these features often lack the spatial resolution to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Stephanie Fu , Mark Hamilton , Laura Brandt , Axel Feldman , Zhoutong Zhang , William T. Freeman

Semantic communications has received growing interest since it can remarkably reduce the amount of data to be transmitted without missing critical information. Most existing works explore the semantic encoding and transmission for text and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Danlan Huang , Feifei Gao , Xiaoming Tao , Qiyuan Du , Jianhua Lu

Despite recent progress in calibration-free monocular SLAM via 3D vision foundation models, scale drift remains severe on long sequences. Motion-agnostic partitioning breaks contextual coherence and causes zero-motion drift, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Zhuang Xiong , Chen Zhang , Qingshan Xu , Wenbing Tao

Despite significant progress of deep learning in recent years, state-of-the-art semantic matching methods still rely on legacy features such as SIFT or HoG. We argue that the strong invariance properties that are key to the success of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-18 David Novotny , Diane Larlus , Andrea Vedaldi

We present a learning-based method for building driving-signal aware full-body avatars. Our model is a conditional variational autoencoder that can be animated with incomplete driving signals, such as human pose and facial keypoints, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Timur Bagautdinov , Chenglei Wu , Tomas Simon , Fabian Prada , Takaaki Shiratori , Shih-En Wei , Weipeng Xu , Yaser Sheikh , Jason Saragih

Semantic segmentation approaches are typically trained on large-scale data with a closed finite set of known classes without considering unknown objects. In certain safety-critical robotics applications, especially autonomous driving, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Mennatullah Siam , Alex Kendall , Martin Jagersand

Navigating to out-of-sight targets from human instructions in unfamiliar environments is a core capability for service robots. Despite substantial progress, most approaches underutilize reusable, persistent memory, constraining performance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Haochen Niu , Lantao Zhang , Xingwu Ji , Rendong Ying , Peilin Liu , Fei Wen

We study universal zero-shot segmentation in this work to achieve panoptic, instance, and semantic segmentation for novel categories without any training samples. Such zero-shot segmentation ability relies on inter-class relationships in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Shuting He , Henghui Ding , Wei Jiang

We present a new recurrent neural network topology to enhance state-of-the-art machine learning systems by incorporating a broader context. Our approach overcomes recent limitations with extended narratives through a multi-layered…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Patrick Huber , Jan Niehues , Alex Waibel

Recent studies show that deep vision-only and language-only models--trained on disjoint modalities--nonetheless project their inputs into a partially aligned representational space. Yet we still lack a clear picture of where in each network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Zoe Wanying He , Sean Trott , Meenakshi Khosla

Recent advances in text-driven human motion generation enable models to synthesize realistic motion sequences from natural language descriptions. However, most existing approaches assume identity-neutral motion and generate movements using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Wenqi Jia , Zekun Li , Abhay Mittal , Chengcheng Tang , Chuan Guo , Lezi Wang , James Matthew Rehg , Lingling Tao , Size An

With the emergence of diverse and massive data in the upcoming sixth-generation (6G) networks, the task-agnostic semantic communication system is regarded to provide robust intelligent services. In this paper, we propose a task-agnostic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Shiyao Jiang , Jian Jiao , Xingjian Zhang , Ye Wang , Dusit Niyato , Qinyu Zhang