activity
20192026
most citedMindstorms in Natural Language-Based Societies of Mind

8 citations · 19 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

15 papers

cs.CV2026

HyperGS: Fast and Generalizable Gaussian Video Representation

Fatimah Zohra, Chen Zhao, Shuming Liu +2

Gaussian Splatting has emerged as an effective representation for video, but existing methods rely on per-video optimization. This leads to slow encoding and limits generalization…

cs.CV2026

Sparse Attention for Dense Open-Vocabulary Prediction in CLIP

Fatimah Zohra, Chen Zhao, Shuming Liu +1

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) relies on softmax-based self-attention, a strictly positive distribution that assigns probability mass to every pair of tokens-even s…

cs.CV2025

BOLT: Boost Large Vision-Language Model Without Training for Long-form Video Understanding

Shuming Liu, Chen Zhao, Tianqi Xu +1

Large video-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated promising progress in various video understanding tasks. However, their effectiveness in long-form video analysis is constraine…

cs.CV2025

TimeLoc: A Unified End-to-End Framework for Precise Timestamp Localization in Long Videos

Chen-Lin Zhang, Lin Sui, Shuming Liu +3

Temporal localization in untrimmed videos, which aims to identify specific timestamps, is crucial for video understanding but remains challenging. This task encompasses several sub…

cs.CV2025

OpenTAD: A Unified Framework and Comprehensive Study of Temporal Action Detection

Shuming Liu, Chen Zhao, Fatimah Zohra +10

Temporal action detection (TAD) is a fundamental video understanding task that aims to identify human actions and localize their temporal boundaries in videos. Although this field…

cs.CV2024

Harnessing Temporal Causality for Advanced Temporal Action Detection

Shuming Liu, Lin Sui, Chen-Lin Zhang +3

As a fundamental task in long-form video understanding, temporal action detection (TAD) aims to capture inherent temporal relations in untrimmed videos and identify candidate actio…

cs.CV2024

ColorMAE: Exploring data-independent masking strategies in Masked AutoEncoders

Carlos Hinojosa, Shuming Liu, Bernard Ghanem

Masked AutoEncoders (MAE) have emerged as a robust self-supervised framework, offering remarkable performance across a wide range of downstream tasks. To increase the difficulty of…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

DrNet: Dynamic Reversible Dual-Residual Networks for Memory-Efficient Finetuning

Chen Zhao, Shuming Liu, Karttikeya Mangalam +5

Large pretrained models are increasingly crucial in modern computer vision tasks. These models are typically used in downstream tasks by end-to-end finetuning, which is highly memo…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

End-to-End Temporal Action Detection with 1B Parameters Across 1000 Frames

Shuming Liu, Chen-Lin Zhang, Chen Zhao +1

Recently, temporal action detection (TAD) has seen significant performance improvement with end-to-end training. However, due to the memory bottleneck, only models with limited sca…

cs.AI2023★ 8 cited

Mindstorms in Natural Language-Based Societies of Mind

Mingchen Zhuge, Haozhe Liu, Francesco Faccio +23

Both Minsky's "society of mind" and Schmidhuber's "learning to think" inspire diverse societies of large multimodal neural networks (NNs) that solve problems by interviewing each o…

cs.CV2023★ 5 cited

Boundary-Denoising for Video Activity Localization

Mengmeng Xu, Mattia Soldan, Jialin Gao +3

Video activity localization aims at understanding the semantic content in long untrimmed videos and retrieving actions of interest. The retrieved action with its start and end loca…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

Look, Listen, and Attack: Backdoor Attacks Against Video Action Recognition

Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Shuming Liu, Mohammed Alkhrashi +2

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to a class of attacks called "backdoor attacks", which create an association between a backdoor trigger and a target label the attacker i…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Re^2TAL: Rewiring Pretrained Video Backbones for Reversible Temporal Action Localization

Chen Zhao, Shuming Liu, Karttikeya Mangalam +1

Temporal action localization (TAL) requires long-form reasoning to predict actions of various durations and complex content. Given limited GPU memory, training TAL end to end (i.e.…

cs.CV2022

ETAD: Training Action Detection End to End on a Laptop

Shuming Liu, Mengmeng Xu, Chen Zhao +2

Temporal action detection (TAD) with end-to-end training often suffers from the pain of huge demand for computing resources due to long video duration. In this work, we propose an…

cs.CV2019

Multi-Granularity Fusion Network for Proposal and Activity Localization: Submission to ActivityNet Challenge 2019 Task 1 and Task 2

Haisheng Su, Xu Zhao, Shuming Liu

This technical report presents an overview of our solution used in the submission to ActivityNet Challenge 2019 Task 1 (\textbf{temporal action proposal generation}) and Task 2 (\t…