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Publications (29)

cs.CV2023

Open-world Text-specified Object Counting

Niki Amini-Naieni, Kiana Amini-Naieni, Tengda Han +1

Our objective is open-world object counting in images, where the target object class is specified by a text description. To this end, we propose CounTX, a class-agnostic, single-st…

cs.CV2022

Flamingo: a Visual Language Model for Few-Shot Learning

Jean-Baptiste Alayrac, Jeff Donahue, Pauline Luc +24

Building models that can be rapidly adapted to novel tasks using only a handful of annotated examples is an open challenge for multimodal machine learning research. We introduce Fl…

cs.SD2023

WhisperX: Time-Accurate Speech Transcription of Long-Form Audio

Max Bain, Jaesung Huh, Tengda Han +1

Large-scale, weakly-supervised speech recognition models, such as Whisper, have demonstrated impressive results on speech recognition across domains and languages. However, their a…

cs.CV2017

Human Pose Forecasting via Deep Markov Models

Sam Toyer, Anoop Cherian, Tengda Han +1

Human pose forecasting is an important problem in computer vision with applications to human-robot interaction, visual surveillance, and autonomous driving. Usually, forecasting al…

cs.CV2017

Human Action Forecasting by Learning Task Grammars

Tengda Han, Jue Wang, Anoop Cherian +1

For effective human-robot interaction, it is important that a robotic assistant can forecast the next action a human will consider in a given task. Unfortunately, real-world tasks…

cs.CV2021

Self-supervised Co-training for Video Representation Learning

Tengda Han, Weidi Xie, Andrew Zisserman

The objective of this paper is visual-only self-supervised video representation learning. We make the following contributions: (i) we investigate the benefit of adding semantic-cla…

cs.CV2024

It's Just Another Day: Unique Video Captioning by Discriminative Prompting

Toby Perrett, Tengda Han, Dima Damen +1

Long videos contain many repeating actions, events and shots. These repetitions are frequently given identical captions, which makes it difficult to retrieve the exact desired clip…

cs.CV2025

Learning from Streaming Video with Orthogonal Gradients

Tengda Han, Dilara Gokay, Joseph Heyward +6

We address the challenge of representation learning from a continuous stream of video as input, in a self-supervised manner. This differs from the standard approaches to video lear…

cs.CV2022

Temporal Alignment Networks for Long-term Video

Tengda Han, Weidi Xie, Andrew Zisserman

The objective of this paper is a temporal alignment network that ingests long term video sequences, and associated text sentences, in order to: (1) determine if a sentence is align…

cs.CV2022

Turbo Training with Token Dropout

Tengda Han, Weidi Xie, Andrew Zisserman

The objective of this paper is an efficient training method for video tasks. We make three contributions: (1) We propose Turbo training, a simple and versatile training paradigm fo…

cs.CV2026

Seeing without Pixels: Perception from Camera Trajectories

Zihui Xue, Kristen Grauman, Dima Damen +2

Can one perceive a video's content without seeing its pixels, just from the camera trajectory-the path it carves through space? This paper is the first to systematically investigat…

cs.CV2025

Character-Centric Understanding of Animated Movies

Zhongrui Gui, Junyu Xie, Tengda Han +2

Animated movies are captivating for their unique character designs and imaginative storytelling, yet they pose significant challenges for existing recognition systems. Unlike the c…

cs.CV2023

AutoAD II: The Sequel -- Who, When, and What in Movie Audio Description

Tengda Han, Max Bain, Arsha Nagrani +3

Audio Description (AD) is the task of generating descriptions of visual content, at suitable time intervals, for the benefit of visually impaired audiences. For movies, this presen…

cs.CV2024

Learning to Count without Annotations

Lukas Knobel, Tengda Han, Yuki M. Asano

While recent supervised methods for reference-based object counting continue to improve the performance on benchmark datasets, they have to rely on small datasets due to the cost a…

cs.CV2020

Memory-augmented Dense Predictive Coding for Video Representation Learning

Tengda Han, Weidi Xie, Andrew Zisserman

The objective of this paper is self-supervised learning from video, in particular for representations for action recognition. We make the following contributions: (i) We propose a…

cs.CV2025

CountGD: Multi-Modal Open-World Counting

Niki Amini-Naieni, Tengda Han, Andrew Zisserman

The goal of this paper is to improve the generality and accuracy of open-vocabulary object counting in images. To improve the generality, we repurpose an open-vocabulary detection…

cs.CV2026

GMOS: Grounding Moving Object Segmentation in 3D Space and Time

Junyu Xie, Tengda Han, Weidi Xie +1

Moving Object Segmentation (MOS) aims to discover, segment, and track objects that move independently of the camera. Current MOS methods, however, exhibit two fundamental limitatio…

cs.CV2026

Dynamic Reflections: Probing Video Representations with Text Alignment

Tyler Zhu, Tengda Han, Leonidas Guibas +2

The alignment of representations from different modalities has recently been shown to provide insights on the structural similarities and downstream capabilities of different encod…

cs.CV2025

More than a Moment: Towards Coherent Sequences of Audio Descriptions

Eshika Khandelwal, Junyu Xie, Tengda Han +5

Audio Descriptions (ADs) convey essential on-screen information, allowing visually impaired audiences to follow videos. To be effective, ADs must form a coherent sequence that help…

cs.CV2025

Shot-by-Shot: Film-Grammar-Aware Training-Free Audio Description Generation

Junyu Xie, Tengda Han, Max Bain +5

Our objective is the automatic generation of Audio Descriptions (ADs) for edited video material, such as movies and TV series. To achieve this, we propose a two-stage framework tha…

cs.CV2024

AutoAD-Zero: A Training-Free Framework for Zero-Shot Audio Description

Junyu Xie, Tengda Han, Max Bain +4

Our objective is to generate Audio Descriptions (ADs) for both movies and TV series in a training-free manner. We use the power of off-the-shelf Visual-Language Models (VLMs) and L…

cs.CV2026

Unique Lives, Shared World: Learning from Single-Life Videos

Tengda Han, Sayna Ebrahimi, Dilara Gokay +8

We introduce the "single-life" learning paradigm, where we train a distinct vision model exclusively on egocentric videos captured by one individual. We leverage the multiple viewp…

cs.CV2023

AutoAD: Movie Description in Context

Tengda Han, Max Bain, Arsha Nagrani +3

The objective of this paper is an automatic Audio Description (AD) model that ingests movies and outputs AD in text form. Generating high-quality movie AD is challenging due to the…

cs.CV2024

AutoAD III: The Prequel -- Back to the Pixels

Tengda Han, Max Bain, Arsha Nagrani +3

Generating Audio Description (AD) for movies is a challenging task that requires fine-grained visual understanding and an awareness of the characters and their names. Currently, vi…

cs.CV2024

Prompt Generation Networks for Input-Space Adaptation of Frozen Vision Transformers

Jochem Loedeman, Maarten C. Stol, Tengda Han +1

With the introduction of the transformer architecture in computer vision, increasing model scale has been demonstrated as a clear path to achieving performance and robustness gains…

cs.CV2019

Video Representation Learning by Dense Predictive Coding

Tengda Han, Weidi Xie, Andrew Zisserman

The objective of this paper is self-supervised learning of spatio-temporal embeddings from video, suitable for human action recognition. We make three contributions: First, we intr…

cs.CV2022

Prompting Visual-Language Models for Efficient Video Understanding

Chen Ju, Tengda Han, Kunhao Zheng +2

Image-based visual-language (I-VL) pre-training has shown great success for learning joint visual-textual representations from large-scale web data, revealing remarkable ability fo…

cs.CV2024

Multi-Sentence Grounding for Long-term Instructional Video

Zeqian Li, Qirui Chen, Tengda Han +3

In this paper, we aim to establish an automatic, scalable pipeline for denoising the large-scale instructional dataset and construct a high-quality video-text dataset with multiple…

cs.CV2024

Stale Diffusion: Hyper-realistic 5D Movie Generation Using Old-school Methods

Joao F. Henriques, Dylan Campbell, Tengda Han

Two years ago, Stable Diffusion achieved super-human performance at generating images with super-human numbers of fingers. Following the steady decline of its technical novelty, we…