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6 papers

cs.CV2026

K9-Bench: Evaluating Multimodal LLMs on Canine-Centric Videos

Khush Attarde, Yusuf Ali, Megha Thukral +3

MLLMs have shown strong zero-shot capabilities across diverse inputs such as across images, video, audio, and text. A crucial, yet underexplored, application of these models lies i…

cs.CV2026

Fine-grained Motion Retrieval via Joint-Angle Motion Images and Token-Patch Late Interaction

Yao Zhang, Zhuchenyang Liu, Yanlan He +2

Text-motion retrieval aims to learn a semantically aligned latent space between natural language descriptions and 3D human motion skeleton sequences, enabling bidirectional search…

cs.CV2026

Encoder-Free Human Motion Understanding via Structured Motion Descriptions

Yao Zhang, Zhuchenyang Liu, Thomas Ploetz +1

The world knowledge and reasoning capabilities of text-based large language models (LLMs) are advancing rapidly, yet current approaches to human motion understanding, including mot…

eess.SP2026

Foundation Models Defining A New Era In Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition: A Survey And Outlook

Sizhen Bian, Mengxi Liu, Lala Shakti Swarup Ray +7

Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) underpins many ubiquitous and wearable computing applications, yet current models remain limited by scarce labels, sensor heterogeneit…

cs.LG2025

Models Got Talent: Identifying High Performing Wearable Human Activity Recognition Models Without Training

Richard Goldman, Varun Komperla, Thomas Ploetz +1

A promising alternative to the computationally expensive Neural Architecture Search (NAS) involves the development of Zero Cost Proxies (ZCPs), which correlate well with trained pe…

cs.AI2025

Thou Shalt Not Prompt: Zero-Shot Human Activity Recognition in Smart Homes via Language Modeling of Sensor Data & Activities

Sourish Gunesh Dhekane, Thomas Ploetz

Developing zero-shot human activity recognition (HAR) methods is a critical direction in smart home research -- considering its impact on making HAR systems work across smart homes…