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20122023
most citedThe THUMOS Challenge on Action Recognition for Videos "in the Wild"

628 citations · 2.1k across the 30 of their papers we have counts for

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38 papers

cs.CV2023

Self-supervised Hypergraphs for Learning Multiple World Interpretations

Alina Marcu, Mihai Pirvu, Dragos Costea +5

We present a method for learning multiple scene representations given a small labeled set, by exploiting the relationships between such representations in the form of a multi-task…

cs.CV2022★ 9 cited

HSPACE: Synthetic Parametric Humans Animated in Complex Environments

Eduard Gabriel Bazavan, Andrei Zanfir, Mihai Zanfir +3

Advances in the state of the art for 3d human sensing are currently limited by the lack of visual datasets with 3d ground truth, including multiple people, in motion, operating in…

cs.CV2021★ 10 cited

Discrete Representations Strengthen Vision Transformer Robustness

Chengzhi Mao, Lu Jiang, Mostafa Dehghani +3

Vision Transformer (ViT) is emerging as the state-of-the-art architecture for image recognition. While recent studies suggest that ViTs are more robust than their convolutional cou…

cs.CV2021

THUNDR: Transformer-based 3D HUmaN Reconstruction with Markers

Mihai Zanfir, Andrei Zanfir, Eduard Gabriel Bazavan +3

We present THUNDR, a transformer-based deep neural network methodology to reconstruct the 3d pose and shape of people, given monocular RGB images. Key to our methodology is an inte…

cs.CV2020★ 3 cited

Semi-Supervised Learning for Multi-Task Scene Understanding by Neural Graph Consensus

Marius Leordeanu, Mihai Pirvu, Dragos Costea +3

We address the challenging problem of semi-supervised learning in the context of multiple visual interpretations of the world by finding consensus in a graph of neural networks. Ea…

cs.CV2020★ 10 cited

The End-of-End-to-End: A Video Understanding Pentathlon Challenge (2020)

Samuel Albanie, Yang Liu, Arsha Nagrani +18

We present a new video understanding pentathlon challenge, an open competition held in conjunction with the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2020.…

cs.CV2020

Neural Descent for Visual 3D Human Pose and Shape

Andrei Zanfir, Eduard Gabriel Bazavan, Mihai Zanfir +3

We present deep neural network methodology to reconstruct the 3d pose and shape of people, given an input RGB image. We rely on a recently introduced, expressivefull body statistic…

cs.CV2020★ 16 cited

Learning Video Representations from Textual Web Supervision

Jonathan C. Stroud, Zhichao Lu, Chen Sun +4

Videos on the Internet are paired with pieces of text, such as titles and descriptions. This text typically describes the most important content in the video, such as the objects i…

cs.CV2020

Speech2Action: Cross-modal Supervision for Action Recognition

Arsha Nagrani, Chen Sun, David Ross +3

Is it possible to guess human action from dialogue alone? In this work we investigate the link between spoken words and actions in movies. We note that movie screenplays describe a…

cs.CV2020

Weakly Supervised 3D Human Pose and Shape Reconstruction with Normalizing Flows

Andrei Zanfir, Eduard Gabriel Bazavan, Hongyi Xu +3

Monocular 3D human pose and shape estimation is challenging due to the many degrees of freedom of the human body and thedifficulty to acquire training data for large-scale supervis…

cs.RO2019

Selfie Drone Stick: A Natural Interface for Quadcopter Photography

Saif Alabachi, Gita Sukthankar, Rahul Sukthankar

A physical selfie stick extends the user's reach, enabling the acquisition of personal photos that include more of the background scene. Similarly, a quadcopter can capture photos…

cs.CV2019★ 23 cited

An Efficient 3D CNN for Action/Object Segmentation in Video

Rui Hou, Chen Chen, Rahul Sukthankar +1

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based image segmentation has made great progress in recent years. However, video object segmentation remains a challenging task due to its high c…

cs.CV2019★ 7 cited

Relational Action Forecasting

Chen Sun, Abhinav Shrivastava, Carl Vondrick +3

This paper focuses on multi-person action forecasting in videos. More precisely, given a history of H previous frames, the goal is to detect actors and to predict their future acti…

cs.RO2019

Customizing Object Detectors for Indoor Robots

Saif Alabachi, Gita Sukthankar, Rahul Sukthankar

Object detection models based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) demonstrate impressive performance when trained on large-scale labeled datasets. While a generic object detect…

cs.CV2018

D3D: Distilled 3D Networks for Video Action Recognition

Jonathan C. Stroud, David A. Ross, Chen Sun +2

State-of-the-art methods for video action recognition commonly use an ensemble of two networks: the spatial stream, which takes RGB frames as input, and the temporal stream, which…

cs.LG2018★ 5 cited

Modulated Policy Hierarchies

Alexander Pashevich, Danijar Hafner, James Davidson +2

Solving tasks with sparse rewards is a main challenge in reinforcement learning. While hierarchical controllers are an intuitive approach to this problem, current methods often req…

cs.CV2018★ 14 cited

Actor-Centric Relation Network

Chen Sun, Abhinav Shrivastava, Carl Vondrick +3

Current state-of-the-art approaches for spatio-temporal action localization rely on detections at the frame level and model temporal context with 3D ConvNets. Here, we go one step…

cs.CV2018★ 33 cited

Rethinking the Faster R-CNN Architecture for Temporal Action Localization

Yu-Wei Chao, Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan, Bryan Seybold +3

We propose TAL-Net, an improved approach to temporal action localization in video that is inspired by the Faster R-CNN object detection framework. TAL-Net addresses three key short…

cs.CV2018★ 7 cited

Object category learning and retrieval with weak supervision

Steven Hickson, Anelia Angelova, Irfan Essa +1

We consider the problem of retrieving objects from image data and learning to classify them into meaningful semantic categories with minimal supervision. To that end, we propose a…

cs.CV2017★ 14 cited

WebVision Challenge: Visual Learning and Understanding With Web Data

Wen Li, Limin Wang, Wei Li +5

We present the 2017 WebVision Challenge, a public image recognition challenge designed for deep learning based on web images without instance-level human annotation. Following the…

cs.CV2017★ 13 cited

Motion Prediction Under Multimodality with Conditional Stochastic Networks

Katerina Fragkiadaki, Jonathan Huang, Alex Alemi +3

Given a visual history, multiple future outcomes for a video scene are equally probable, in other words, the distribution of future outcomes has multiple modes. Multimodality is no…

cs.CV2017★ 18 cited

AVA: A Video Dataset of Spatio-temporally Localized Atomic Visual Actions

Chunhui Gu, Chen Sun, David A. Ross +9

This paper introduces a video dataset of spatio-temporally localized Atomic Visual Actions (AVA). The AVA dataset densely annotates 80 atomic visual actions in 430 15-minute video…

cs.CV2017★ 349 cited

SfM-Net: Learning of Structure and Motion from Video

Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan, Susanna Ricco, Cordelia Schmid +2

We propose SfM-Net, a geometry-aware neural network for motion estimation in videos that decomposes frame-to-frame pixel motion in terms of scene and object depth, camera motion an…

cs.LG2017★ 384 cited

Robust Adversarial Reinforcement Learning

Lerrel Pinto, James Davidson, Rahul Sukthankar +1

Deep neural networks coupled with fast simulation and improved computation have led to recent successes in the field of reinforcement learning (RL). However, most current RL-based…