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cs.CV2022

Hierarchical Self-supervised Representation Learning for Movie Understanding

Fanyi Xiao, Kaustav Kundu, Joseph Tighe +1

Most self-supervised video representation learning approaches focus on action recognition. In contrast, in this paper we focus on self-supervised video learning for movie understan…

cs.CV2023

SkeleTR: Towrads Skeleton-based Action Recognition in the Wild

Haodong Duan, Mingze Xu, Bing Shuai +4

We present SkeleTR, a new framework for skeleton-based action recognition. In contrast to prior work, which focuses mainly on controlled environments, we target more general scenar…

cs.CV2024

Benchmarking Zero-Shot Recognition with Vision-Language Models: Challenges on Granularity and Specificity

Zhenlin Xu, Yi Zhu, Tiffany Deng +6

This paper presents novel benchmarks for evaluating vision-language models (VLMs) in zero-shot recognition, focusing on granularity and specificity. Although VLMs excel in tasks li…

cs.CV2017

Do semantic parts emerge in Convolutional Neural Networks?

Abel Gonzalez-Garcia, Davide Modolo, Vittorio Ferrari

Semantic object parts can be useful for several visual recognition tasks. Lately, these tasks have been addressed using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), achieving outstanding r…

cs.CV2026

Learning Compact Video Representations for Efficient Long-form Video Understanding in Large Multimodal Models

Yuxiao Chen, Jue Wang, Zhikang Zhang +8

With recent advancements in video backbone architectures, combined with the remarkable achievements of large language models (LLMs), the analysis of long-form videos spanning tens…

cs.CV2022

TubeR: Tubelet Transformer for Video Action Detection

Jiaojiao Zhao, Yanyi Zhang, Xinyu Li +10

We propose TubeR: a simple solution for spatio-temporal video action detection. Different from existing methods that depend on either an off-line actor detector or hand-designed ac…

cs.CV2020

Combining detection and tracking for human pose estimation in videos

Manchen Wang, Joseph Tighe, Davide Modolo

We propose a novel top-down approach that tackles the problem of multi-person human pose estimation and tracking in videos. In contrast to existing top-down approaches, our method…

cs.CV2021

Multi-Object Tracking with Hallucinated and Unlabeled Videos

Daniel McKee, Bing Shuai, Andrew Berneshawi +4

In this paper, we explore learning end-to-end deep neural trackers without tracking annotations. This is important as large-scale training data is essential for training deep neura…

cs.CV2023

Early Action Recognition with Action Prototypes

Guglielmo Camporese, Alessandro Bergamo, Xunyu Lin +2

Early action recognition is an important and challenging problem that enables the recognition of an action from a partially observed video stream where the activity is potentially…

cs.CV2023

Denoising and Selecting Pseudo-Heatmaps for Semi-Supervised Human Pose Estimation

Zhuoran Yu, Manchen Wang, Yanbei Chen +2

We propose a new semi-supervised learning design for human pose estimation that revisits the popular dual-student framework and enhances it two ways. First, we introduce a denoisin…

cs.CV2020

Multi-Object Tracking with Siamese Track-RCNN

Bing Shuai, Andrew G. Berneshawi, Davide Modolo +1

Multi-object tracking systems often consist of a combination of a detector, a short term linker, a re-identification feature extractor and a solver that takes the output from these…

cs.CV2022

SCVRL: Shuffled Contrastive Video Representation Learning

Michael Dorkenwald, Fanyi Xiao, Biagio Brattoli +2

We propose SCVRL, a novel contrastive-based framework for self-supervised learning for videos. Differently from previous contrast learning based methods that mostly focus on learni…

cs.CV2017

Learning Semantic Part-Based Models from Google Images

Davide Modolo, Vittorio Ferrari

We propose a technique to train semantic part-based models of object classes from Google Images. Our models encompass the appearance of parts and their spatial arrangement on the o…

cs.CV2023

ScaleDet: A Scalable Multi-Dataset Object Detector

Yanbei Chen, Manchen Wang, Abhay Mittal +4

Multi-dataset training provides a viable solution for exploiting heterogeneous large-scale datasets without extra annotation cost. In this work, we propose a scalable multi-dataset…

cs.CV2019

Action recognition with spatial-temporal discriminative filter banks

Brais Martinez, Davide Modolo, Yuanjun Xiong +1

Action recognition has seen a dramatic performance improvement in the last few years. Most of the current state-of-the-art literature either aims at improving performance through c…

cs.CV2022

What to look at and where: Semantic and Spatial Refined Transformer for detecting human-object interactions

A S M Iftekhar, Hao Chen, Kaustav Kundu +3

We propose a novel one-stage Transformer-based semantic and spatial refined transformer (SSRT) to solve the Human-Object Interaction detection task, which requires to localize huma…

cs.AI2026

Escaping Confidence Trap: Evolutionary Decoding for Mathematical Reasoning in Diffusion LLMs

Zhenhong Sun, Hanqing Zhao, Yatao Bian +7

Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive LLMs, offering efficient generation through block-wise progressive unmasking. Howe…

cs.CV2021

SiamMOT: Siamese Multi-Object Tracking

Bing Shuai, Andrew Berneshawi, Xinyu Li +2

In this paper, we focus on improving online multi-object tracking (MOT). In particular, we introduce a region-based Siamese Multi-Object Tracking network, which we name SiamMOT. Si…

cs.CV2026

Visual Reasoning through Tool-supervised Reinforcement Learning

Qihua Dong, Gozde Sahin, Pei Wang +4

In this paper, we investigate the problem of how to effectively master tool-use to solve complex visual reasoning tasks for Multimodal Large Language Models. To achieve that, we pr…

cs.CV2024

Hyperbolic Learning with Synthetic Captions for Open-World Detection

Fanjie Kong, Yanbei Chen, Jiarui Cai +1

Open-world detection poses significant challenges, as it requires the detection of any object using either object class labels or free-form texts. Existing related works often use…

cs.CV2022

MaCLR: Motion-aware Contrastive Learning of Representations for Videos

Fanyi Xiao, Joseph Tighe, Davide Modolo

We present MaCLR, a novel method to explicitly perform cross-modal self-supervised video representations learning from visual and motion modalities. Compared to previous video repr…

cs.CV2015

Context Forest for efficient object detection with large mixture models

Davide Modolo, Alexander Vezhnevets, Vittorio Ferrari

We present Context Forest (ConF), a technique for predicting properties of the objects in an image based on its global appearance. Compared to standard nearest-neighbour techniques…

cs.AI2025

The Amazon Nova Family of Models: Technical Report and Model Card

Amazon AGI, Aaron Langford, Aayush Shah +783

We present Amazon Nova, a new generation of state-of-the-art foundation models that deliver frontier intelligence and industry-leading price performance. Amazon Nova Pro is a highl…

cs.CV2020

Understanding the impact of mistakes on background regions in crowd counting

Davide Modolo, Bing Shuai, Rahul Rama Varior +1

Every crowd counting researcher has likely observed their model output wrong positive predictions on image regions not containing any person. But how often do these mistakes happen…

cs.CV2024

Musketeer: Joint Training for Multi-task Vision Language Model with Task Explanation Prompts

Zhaoyang Zhang, Yantao Shen, Kunyu Shi +7

We present a vision-language model whose parameters are jointly trained on all tasks and fully shared among multiple heterogeneous tasks which may interfere with each other, result…

cs.CV2026

STORM: End-to-End Referring Multi-Object Tracking in Videos

Zijia Lu, Jingru Yi, Jue Wang +4

Referring multi-object tracking (RMOT) is a task of associating all the objects in a video that semantically match with given textual queries or referring expressions. Existing RMO…

cs.CV2022

Semi-supervised Vision Transformers at Scale

Zhaowei Cai, Avinash Ravichandran, Paolo Favaro +5

We study semi-supervised learning (SSL) for vision transformers (ViT), an under-explored topic despite the wide adoption of the ViT architectures to different tasks. To tackle this…

cs.CV2021

Selective Feature Compression for Efficient Activity Recognition Inference

Chunhui Liu, Xinyu Li, Hao Chen +2

Most action recognition solutions rely on dense sampling to precisely cover the informative temporal clip. Extensively searching temporal region is expensive for a real-world appli…

cs.CV2018

Objects as context for detecting their semantic parts

Abel Gonzalez-Garcia, Davide Modolo, Vittorio Ferrari

We present a semantic part detection approach that effectively leverages object information.We use the object appearance and its class as indicators of what parts to expect. We als…

cs.CV2019

Multi-Scale Attention Network for Crowd Counting

Rahul Rama Varior, Bing Shuai, Joseph Tighe +1

In crowd counting datasets, people appear at different scales, depending on their distance from the camera. To address this issue, we propose a novel multi-branch scale-aware atten…

cs.CV2026

Mural: Transferring LLM knowledge to image generation via Mixture-of-Transformers

Achin Jain, Jie An, Siddharth Chaudhary +1

Leveraging capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in text-to-image (T2I) synthesis is an important research direction. In this work we investigate whether the knowledge of a…

cs.AI2026

MM-ReCoder: Advancing Chart-to-Code Generation with Reinforcement Learning and Self-Correction

Zitian Tang, Xu Zhang, Jianbo Yuan +4

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have recently demonstrated promising capabilities in multimodal coding tasks such as chart-to-code generation. However, existing methods pr…

cs.CV2024

Self-Supervised Multi-Object Tracking with Path Consistency

Zijia Lu, Bing Shuai, Yanbei Chen +2

In this paper, we propose a novel concept of path consistency to learn robust object matching without using manual object identity supervision. Our key idea is that, to track a obj…

cs.CV2022

Transfer of Representations to Video Label Propagation: Implementation Factors Matter

Daniel McKee, Zitong Zhan, Bing Shuai +3

This work studies feature representations for dense label propagation in video, with a focus on recently proposed methods that learn video correspondence using self-supervised sign…

cs.CV2015

Joint calibration of Ensemble of Exemplar SVMs

Davide Modolo, Alexander Vezhnevets, Olga Russakovsky +1

We present a method for calibrating the Ensemble of Exemplar SVMs model. Unlike the standard approach, which calibrates each SVM independently, our method optimizes their joint per…

cs.CV2023

SemiGPC: Distribution-Aware Label Refinement for Imbalanced Semi-Supervised Learning Using Gaussian Processes

Abdelhak Lemkhenter, Manchen Wang, Luca Zancato +3

In this paper we introduce SemiGPC, a distribution-aware label refinement strategy based on Gaussian Processes where the predictions of the model are derived from the labels poster…