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cs.CV2026

Where Do We (Not) Need Temporal Context in Low-Resource Video Task Adaptation?

Luc P. J. Sträter, Hazel Doughty

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) and probing enable adaptation of foundation models using only a small number of trainable parameters, making it attractive for video understa…

cs.CV2026

Let's Split Up: Zero-Shot Classifier Edits for Fine-Grained Video Understanding

Kaiting Liu, Hazel Doughty

Video recognition models are typically trained on fixed taxonomies which are often too coarse, collapsing distinctions in object, manner or outcome under a single label. As tasks a…

cs.CV2025

Segmenting Collision Sound Sources in Egocentric Videos

Kranti Kumar Parida, Omar Emara, Hazel Doughty +1

Humans excel at multisensory perception and can often recognise object properties from the sound of their interactions. Inspired by this, we propose the novel task of Collision Sou…

cs.CV2025

SEVERE++: Evaluating Benchmark Sensitivity in Generalization of Video Representation Learning

Fida Mohammad Thoker, Letian Jiang, Chen Zhao +4

Continued advances in self-supervised learning have led to significant progress in video representation learning, offering a scalable alternative to supervised approaches by removi…

cs.CV2025

HD-EPIC: A Highly-Detailed Egocentric Video Dataset

Toby Perrett, Ahmad Darkhalil, Saptarshi Sinha +16

We present a validation dataset of newly-collected kitchen-based egocentric videos, manually annotated with highly detailed and interconnected ground-truth labels covering: recipe…

cs.CV2024

LocoMotion: Learning Motion-Focused Video-Language Representations

Hazel Doughty, Fida Mohammad Thoker, Cees G. M. Snoek

This paper strives for motion-focused video-language representations. Existing methods to learn video-language representations use spatial-focused data, where identifying the objec…

cs.CV2024

Beyond Coarse-Grained Matching in Video-Text Retrieval

Aozhu Chen, Hazel Doughty, Xirong Li +1

Video-text retrieval has seen significant advancements, yet the ability of models to discern subtle differences in captions still requires verification. In this paper, we introduce…

cs.CV2024

SelEx: Self-Expertise in Fine-Grained Generalized Category Discovery

Sarah Rastegar, Mohammadreza Salehi, Yuki M. Asano +2

In this paper, we address Generalized Category Discovery, aiming to simultaneously uncover novel categories and accurately classify known ones. Traditional methods, which lean heav…

cs.CV2024

Low-Resource Vision Challenges for Foundation Models

Yunhua Zhang, Hazel Doughty, Cees G. M. Snoek

Low-resource settings are well-established in natural language processing, where many languages lack sufficient data for deep learning at scale. However, low-resource problems are…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Learn to Categorize or Categorize to Learn? Self-Coding for Generalized Category Discovery

Sarah Rastegar, Hazel Doughty, Cees G. M. Snoek

In the quest for unveiling novel categories at test time, we confront the inherent limitations of traditional supervised recognition models that are restricted by a predefined cate…

cs.CV2023

Learning Unseen Modality Interaction

Yunhua Zhang, Hazel Doughty, Cees G. M. Snoek

Multimodal learning assumes all modality combinations of interest are available during training to learn cross-modal correspondences. In this paper, we challenge this modality-comp…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Tubelet-Contrastive Self-Supervision for Video-Efficient Generalization

Fida Mohammad Thoker, Hazel Doughty, Cees Snoek

We propose a self-supervised method for learning motion-focused video representations. Existing approaches minimize distances between temporally augmented videos, which maintain hi…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Day2Dark: Pseudo-Supervised Activity Recognition beyond Silent Daylight

Yunhua Zhang, Hazel Doughty, Cees G. M. Snoek

This paper strives to recognize activities in the dark, as well as in the day. We first establish that state-of-the-art activity recognizers are effective during the day, but not t…

cs.CV2022

Audio-Adaptive Activity Recognition Across Video Domains

Yunhua Zhang, Hazel Doughty, Ling Shao +1

This paper strives for activity recognition under domain shift, for example caused by change of scenery or camera viewpoint. The leading approaches reduce the shift in activity app…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

How Severe is Benchmark-Sensitivity in Video Self-Supervised Learning?

Fida Mohammad Thoker, Hazel Doughty, Piyush Bagad +1

Despite the recent success of video self-supervised learning models, there is much still to be understood about their generalization capability. In this paper, we investigate how s…

cs.CV2022

How Do You Do It? Fine-Grained Action Understanding with Pseudo-Adverbs

Hazel Doughty, Cees G. M. Snoek

We aim to understand how actions are performed and identify subtle differences, such as 'fold firmly' vs. 'fold gently'. To this end, we propose a method which recognizes adverbs a…

cs.CV2021

Skeleton-Contrastive 3D Action Representation Learning

Fida Mohammad Thoker, Hazel Doughty, Cees G. M. Snoek

This paper strives for self-supervised learning of a feature space suitable for skeleton-based action recognition. Our proposal is built upon learning invariances to input skeleton…

cs.CV2021

On Semantic Similarity in Video Retrieval

Michael Wray, Hazel Doughty, Dima Damen

Current video retrieval efforts all found their evaluation on an instance-based assumption, that only a single caption is relevant to a query video and vice versa. We demonstrate t…

cs.CV2021

WiCV 2020: The Seventh Women In Computer Vision Workshop

Hazel Doughty, Nour Karessli, Kathryn Leonard +5

In this paper we present the details of Women in Computer Vision Workshop - WiCV 2020, organized in alongside virtual CVPR 2020. This event aims at encouraging the women researcher…

cs.CV2020

Rescaling Egocentric Vision

Dima Damen, Hazel Doughty, Giovanni Maria Farinella +8

This paper introduces the pipeline to extend the largest dataset in egocentric vision, EPIC-KITCHENS. The effort culminates in EPIC-KITCHENS-100, a collection of 100 hours, 20M fra…

cs.CV2020★ 7 cited

The EPIC-KITCHENS Dataset: Collection, Challenges and Baselines

Dima Damen, Hazel Doughty, Giovanni Maria Farinella +8

Since its introduction in 2018, EPIC-KITCHENS has attracted attention as the largest egocentric video benchmark, offering a unique viewpoint on people's interaction with objects, t…

cs.CV2019

Action Modifiers: Learning from Adverbs in Instructional Videos

Hazel Doughty, Ivan Laptev, Walterio Mayol-Cuevas +1

We present a method to learn a representation for adverbs from instructional videos using weak supervision from the accompanying narrations. Key to our method is the fact that the…

cs.CV2018

The Pros and Cons: Rank-aware Temporal Attention for Skill Determination in Long Videos

Hazel Doughty, Walterio Mayol-Cuevas, Dima Damen

We present a new model to determine relative skill from long videos, through learnable temporal attention modules. Skill determination is formulated as a ranking problem, making it…

cs.CV2018★ 283 cited

Scaling Egocentric Vision: The EPIC-KITCHENS Dataset

Dima Damen, Hazel Doughty, Giovanni Maria Farinella +8

First-person vision is gaining interest as it offers a unique viewpoint on people's interaction with objects, their attention, and even intention. However, progress in this challen…