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  • Recognizing human actions: A local SVM approach

    Christian Schüldt, Ivan Laptev, Barbara Caputo

    Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2004. ICPR 2004. · 2004

    4,230
  • On Space-Time Interest Points

    Ivan Laptev

    International Journal of Computer Vision · 2005

    This paper builds on the idea of the Harris and Förstner interest point operators and detects local structures in space-time where the image values have significant local variations in both space and time and illustrates how a video representation in terms of local space- time features allows for detection of walking people in scenes with occlusions and dynamic cluttered backgrounds.

    4,065
  • Learning realistic human actions from movies

    Ivan Laptev, Marcin Marszałek, Cordelia Schmid, Benjamin Rozenfeld

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2008

    3,819
  • Learning and Transferring Mid-level Image Representations Using Convolutional Neural Networks

    Maxime Oquab, Léon Bottou, Ivan Laptev, Josef Šivic

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2014

    3,316
  • Segmenter: Transformer for Semantic Segmentation

    Robin Strudel, Ricardo Alexandrino Garcia, Ivan Laptev, Cordelia Schmid

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2021

    This paper introduces Segmenter, a transformer model for semantic segmentation that outperforms the state of the art on both ADE20K and Pascal Context datasets and is competitive on Cityscapes.

    2,051
  • HowTo100M: Learning a Text-Video Embedding by Watching Hundred Million Narrated Video Clips

    Antoine Miech, Dimitri Zhukov, Jean-Baptiste Alayrac, Makarand Tapaswi, Ivan Laptev, Josef Šivic

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2019

    It is demonstrated that a text-video embedding trained on this data leads to state-of-the-art results for text-to-video retrieval and action localization on instructional video datasets such as YouCook2 or CrossTask.

    1,545
  • Evaluation of local spatio-temporal features for action recognition

    Heng Wang, Muhammad Muneeb Ullah, Alexander Kläser, Ivan Laptev, Cordelia Schmid

    British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) · 2009

    It is demonstrated that regular sampling of space-time features consistently outperforms all testedspace-time interest point detectors for human actions in realistic settings and is a consistent ranking for the majority of methods over different datasets.

    1,508
  • Hollywood in Homes: Crowdsourcing Data Collection for Activity Understanding

    Gunnar A. Sigurdsson, Gül Varol, Xiaolong Wang, Ali Farhadi, Ivan Laptev, Abhinav Gupta

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2016

    This work proposes a novel Hollywood in Homes approach to collect data, collecting a new dataset, Charades, with hundreds of people recording videos in their own homes, acting out casual everyday activities, and evaluates and provides baseline results for several tasks including action recognition and automatic description generation.

    1,455
  • Actions in context

    Marcin Marszałek, Ivan Laptev, Cordelia Schmid

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2009

    1,407
  • Learning from Synthetic Humans

    Gül Varol, Javier Romero, Xavier Martín, Naureen Mahmood, Michael J. Black, Ivan Laptev, Cordelia Schmid

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2017

    This work presents SURREAL (Synthetic hUmans foR REAL tasks): a new large-scale dataset with synthetically-generated but realistic images of people rendered from 3D sequences of human motion capture data and shows that CNNs trained on this synthetic dataset allow for accurate human depth estimation and human part segmentation in real RGB images.

    1,076
  • Long-Term Temporal Convolutions for Action Recognition

    Gül Varol, Ivan Laptev, Cordelia Schmid

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2017

    It is demonstrated that LTC-CNN models with increased temporal extents improve the accuracy of action recognition and the impact of different low-level representations, such as raw values of video pixels and optical flow vector fields, and the importance of high-quality optical flow estimation for learning accurate action models.

    954
  • Is object localization for free? - Weakly-supervised learning with convolutional neural networks

    Maxime Oquab, Léon Bottou, Ivan Laptev, Josef Šivic

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2015

    938
  • The THUMOS challenge on action recognition for videos “in the wild”

    Haroon Idrees, Amir Zamir, Yu–Gang Jiang, Alex Gorban, Ivan Laptev, Rahul Sukthankar, Mubarak A. Shah

    Computer Vision and Image Understanding · 2016

    The THUMOS benchmark is described in detail, the evaluation protocols used to quantify results in the two THUMOS tasks of action classification and temporal action detection are presented, and how well methods trained on trimmed videos generalize to untrimmed videos is evaluated.

    918
  • End-to-End Learning of Visual Representations From Uncurated Instructional Videos

    Antoine Miech, Jean-Baptiste Alayrac, Lucas Smaira, Ivan Laptev, Josef Šivic, Andrew Zisserman

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2020

    This work proposes a new learning approach, MIL-NCE, capable of addressing mis- alignments inherent in narrated videos and outperforms all published self-supervised approaches for these tasks as well as several fully supervised baselines.

    813
  • Learning Joint Reconstruction of Hands and Manipulated Objects

    Yana Hasson, Gül Varol, Dimitrios Tzionas, Igor Kalevatykh, Michael J. Black, Ivan Laptev, Cordelia Schmid

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2019

    This work presents an end-to-end learnable model that exploits a novel contact loss that favors phys- ically plausible hand-object constellations, and improves grasp quality metrics over baselines, using RGB images as input.

    683
  • P-CNN: Pose-Based CNN Features for Action Recognition

    Guilhem Chéron, Ivan Laptev, Cordelia Schmid

    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2015

    A new Pose-based Convolutional Neural Network descriptor (P-CNN) for action recognition that aggregates motion and appearance information along tracks of human body parts is proposed.

    641
  • Retrieving actions in movies

    Ivan Laptev, Patrick Pérez

    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2007

    511
  • BodyNet: Volumetric Inference of 3D Human Body Shapes

    Gül Varol, Duygu Ceylan, Bryan Russell, Jimei Yang, Ersin Yumer, Ivan Laptev, Cordelia Schmid

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2018

    BodyNet is an end-to-end trainable network that benefits from a volumetric 3D loss, a multi-view re-projection loss, and intermediate supervision of 2D pose, 2D body part segmentation, and 3D pose and achieves state-of-the-art performance.

    457
  • Vid2Seq: Large-Scale Pretraining of a Visual Language Model for Dense Video Captioning

    Antoine Yang, Arsha Nagrani, Paul Hongsuck Seo, Antoine Miech, Jordi Pont-Tuset, Ivan Laptev, Josef Šivic, Cordelia Schmid

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2023

    Vid2Seq is introduced, a multi-modal single-stage dense event captioning model pretrained on narrated videos which are readily-available at scale and improves the state of the art on a variety of dense video captioning benchmarks including YouCook2, ViTT and ActivityNet Captions.

    427
  • View-Independent Action Recognition from Temporal Self-Similarities

    Imran Nazir Junejo, Émilie Dexter, Ivan Laptev, Patrick Pérez

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2010

    392
  • Density-aware person detection and tracking in crowds

    Mikel D. Rodriguez, Ivan Laptev, Josef Šivic, Jean-Yves Audibert

    International Conference on Computer Vision · 2011

    381
  • Hand gesture recognition using multi-scale colour features, hierarchical models and particle filtering

    Lars Bretzner, Ivan Laptev, Tony Lindeberg

    Proceedings of Fifth IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face Gesture Recognition · 2003

    378
  • Just Ask: Learning to Answer Questions from Millions of Narrated Videos

    Antoine Yang, Antoine Miech, Josef Šivic, Ivan Laptev, Cordelia Schmid

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2021

    This work proposes to avoid manual annotation and generate a large-scale training dataset for video question answering making use of automatic cross-modal supervision, and introduces iVQA, a new VideoQA dataset with reduced language biases and high-quality redundant manual annotations.

    360
  • Cross-Task Weakly Supervised Learning From Instructional Videos

    Dimitri Zhukov, Jean-Baptiste Alayrac, Ramazan Gökberk Cinbiş, David F. Fouhey, Ivan Laptev, Josef Šivic

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2019

    The experiments demonstrate that sharing across tasks improves performance, especially when done at the component level and that the component model can parse previously unseen tasks by virtue of its compositionality.

    330
  • Unsupervised Learning from Narrated Instruction Videos

    Jean-Baptiste Alayrac, Piotr Bojanowski, Nishant Agrawal, Josef Šivic, Ivan Laptev, Simon Lacoste-Julien

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2016

    A new unsupervised learning approach that takes advantage of the complementary nature of the input video and the associated narration to solve two clustering problems, one in text and one in video, and can automatically discover the main steps to achieve the task and locate the steps in the input videos.

    329

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