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  • Cordelia Schmid

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  • Zero-1-to-3: Zero-shot One Image to 3D Object

    Ruoshi Liu, Rundi Wu, Basile Van Hoorick, Pavel Tokmakov, Sergey Zakharov, Carl Vondrick

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2023

    Zero-1-to-3, a framework for changing the camera viewpoint of an object given just a single RGB image, is introduced and significantly outperforms state-of-the-art single-view 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis models by leveraging Internet-scale pre-training.

    1,901
  • Learning Video Object Segmentation with Visual Memory

    Pavel Tokmakov, Karteek Alahari, Cordelia Schmid

    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2017

    A novel two-stream neural network with an explicit memory module to achieve the task of segmenting moving objects in unconstrained videos and provides an extensive ablative analysis to investigate the influence of each component in the proposed framework.

    345
  • Learning Motion Patterns in Videos

    Pavel Tokmakov, Karteek Alahari, 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

    The core of this approach is a fully convolutional network, which is learned entirely from synthetic video sequences, and their ground-truth optical flow and motion segmentation, which outperforms the top method on the recently released DAVIS benchmark dataset by 5.6%.

    279
  • Learning to Track with Object Permanence

    Pavel Tokmakov, Jie Li, Wolfram Burgard, Adrien Gaidon

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

    This work introduces an end-to-end trainable approach for joint object detection and tracking that outperforms the state of the art on KITTI, and MOT17 datasets thanks to its robustness to occlusions.

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  • TAO: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Tracking Any Object

    Achal Dave, Tarasha Khurana, Pavel Tokmakov, Cordelia Schmid, Deva Ramanan

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2020

    It is shown that existing single- and multi-object trackers struggle when applied to this scenario in the wild, and that detection-based, multi- object trackers are in fact competitive with user-initialized ones.

    246
  • Learning Compositional Representations for Few-Shot Recognition

    Pavel Tokmakov, Yu-Xiong Wang, Martial Hebert

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

    This work introduces a simple regularization technique that allows the learned representation to be decomposable into parts, and demonstrates the value of compositional representations on three datasets and shows that they require fewer examples to learn classifiers for novel categories.

    135
  • Dreamitate: Real-World Visuomotor Policy Learning via Video Generation

    Junbang Liang, Ruoshi Liu, Ege Ozguroglu, Sudhakar, Sruthi, Achal Dave, Pavel Tokmakov, Shuran Song, Carl Vondrick

    arXiv · 2024

    A visuomotor policy learning framework that fine-tunes a video diffusion model on human demonstrations of a given task and demonstrates that harnessing internet-scale generative models allows the learned policy to achieve a significantly higher degree of generalization than existing behavior cloning approaches.

    126
  • A Structured Model for Action Detection

    Yubo Zhang, Pavel Tokmakov, Martial Hebert, 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

    A standard I3D network is augmented with a tracking module to aggregate long-term motion patterns, and a graph convolutional network is used to reason about interactions between actors and objects, simplifying optimization.

    118
  • Learning to Segment Moving Objects

    Pavel Tokmakov, Cordelia Schmid, Karteek Alahari

    International Journal of Computer Vision · 2018

    This work designs a framework with three cues: independent object motion between a pair of frames, which complements object recognition, object appearance, which helps to correct errors in motion estimation, and temporal consistency, which imposes additional constraints on the segmentation.

    101
  • pix2gestalt: Amodal Segmentation by Synthesizing Wholes

    Ege Ozguroglu, Ruoshi Liu, Dídac Surís, Dian Chen, Achal Dave, Pavel Tokmakov, Carl Vondrick

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2024

    99
  • Towards Segmenting Anything That Moves

    Achal Dave, Pavel Tokmakov, Deva Ramanan

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

    This work proposes a simple learning-based approach for spatio-temporal grouping that leverages motion cues from optical flow as a bottom-up signal for separating objects from each other, and shows that this model matches top-down methods on common categories, while significantly out-performing both top- down and bottom- up methods on never-before-seen categories.

    98
  • Video Generators are Robot Policies

    Junbang Liang, Pavel Tokmakov, Ruoshi Liu, Sudhakar, Sruthi, Paarth Shah, Rareş Ambruş, Carl Vondrick

    arXiv · 2025

    This paper proposes Video Policy, a modular framework that combines video and action generation that can be trained end-to-end, and shows strong generalization to unseen objects, backgrounds, and tasks, both in simulation and the real world.

    96
  • Standing Between Past and Future: Spatio-Temporal Modeling for Multi-Camera 3D Multi-Object Tracking

    Ziqi Pang, Jie Li, Pavel Tokmakov, Dian Chen, Sergey Zagoruyko, Yu-Xiong Wang

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

    91
  • Breaking the “Object” in Video Object Segmentation

    Pavel Tokmakov, Jie Li, Adrien Gaidon

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

    This work collects a new dataset for Video Object Segmentation under Transformations (VOST) and extensively evaluates state-of-the-art VOS methods, showing that existing methods struggle when applied to this novel task and that their main limitation lies in over-reliance on static appearance cues.

    70
  • One click mining: interactive local pattern discovery through implicit preference and performance learning

    Mario Boley, Michael Mampaey, Bo Kang, Pavel Tokmakov, Stefan Wrobel

    Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Interactive Data Exploration and Analytics · 2013

    A fundamentally new approach towards user involvement that relies exclusively on the implicit feedback available from the natural analysis behavior of the user, and at the same time allows the user to work with a multitude of pattern classes and discovery algorithms simultaneously without even knowing the details of each algorithm is presented.

    69
  • Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation Using Motion Cues

    Pavel Tokmakov, Karteek Alahari, Cordelia Schmid

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2016

    This work presents motion-CNN (M-CNN), a novel FCNN framework which incorporates motion cues and is learned from video-level weak annotations, and demonstrates that the performance of M-CNN learned with 150 weak video annotations is on par with state-of-the-art weakly-supervised methods trained with thousands of images.

    56
  • Discovering Objects that Can Move

    Zhipeng Bao, Pavel Tokmakov, Allan Jabri, Yu-Xiong Wang, Adrien Gaidon, Martial Hebert

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2022

    This paper simplifies the recent auto-encoder based frameworks for unsuper-vised object discovery, and augment the resulting model with a weak learning signal from general motion segmentation algorithms, which is enough to generalize to segment both moving and static instances of dynamic objects.

    52
  • Heterogeneous-Agent Trajectory Forecasting Incorporating Class Uncertainty

    Boris Ivanovic, Kuan-Hui Lee, Pavel Tokmakov, Blake Wulfe, Rowan Mcllister, Adrien Gaidon, Marco Pavone

    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) · 2022

    HAICU, a method for heterogeneous-agent trajectory forecasting that explicitly incorporates agents' class probabilities, is presented, demonstrating that incorporating class probabilities in trajectory forecasting significantly improves performance in the face of uncertainty, and enables new forecasting capabilities such as counterfactual predictions.

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  • Object Permanence Emerges in a Random Walk along Memory

    Pavel Tokmakov, Allan Jabri, Jie Li, Adrien Gaidon

    arXiv · 2022

    It is shown that object permanence can emerge by optimizing for temporal coherence of memory: a Markov walk along a space-time graph of memories, where the states in each time step are non-Markovian features from a sequence encoder.

    35
  • Relational linear programming

    Kristian Kersting, Martin Mladenov, Pavel Tokmakov

    Artificial Intelligence · 2015

    RLP's relational nature allows a more intuitive representation of optimization problems, in particular over relational domains, and is illustrated empirically by experiments on approximate inference in Markov logic networks using LP relaxations, on solving Markov decision processes, and on collective inference using LP support vector machines.

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  • Object Discovery from Motion-Guided Tokens

    Zhipeng Bao, Pavel Tokmakov, Yu-Xiong Wang, Adrien Gaidon, Martial Hebert

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

    This work augments the auto-encoder representation learning framework with two key components: motion-guidance and mid-level feature tokenization, and introduces a new transformer decoder showing that their benefits can compound thanks to motion-guided vector quantization.

    31
  • Generative Camera Dolly: Extreme Monocular Dynamic Novel View Synthesis

    Basile Van Hoorick, Rundi Wu, Ege Ozguroglu, Kyle Sargent, Ruoshi Liu, Pavel Tokmakov, Achal Dave, Changxi Zheng, +1 more

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2024

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  • Understanding Video Transformers via Universal Concept Discovery

    Matthew D. Kowal, Achal Dave, Rareş Ambruş, Adrien Gaidon, Konstantinos G. Derpanis, Pavel Tokmakov

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2024

    This work proposes an efficient approach for unsupervised identification of units of video transformer representations - concepts, and ranking their importance to the output of a model, and discovers that some of these mechanism are universal in video transformers.

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  • Unsupervised Learning of Video Representations via Dense Trajectory Clustering

    Pavel Tokmakov, Martial Hebert, Cordelia Schmid

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2020

    This paper proposes to adapt two top performing objectives in this class - instance recognition and local aggregation, to the video domain, and forms clusters in the IDT space, using heuristic-based IDT descriptors as a an unsupervised prior in the iterative local aggregation algorithm.

    22
  • Tracking Through Containers and Occluders in the Wild

    Basile Van Hoorick, Pavel Tokmakov, Simon Stent, Jie Li, Carl Vondrick

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

    TCOW is introduced, a new benchmark and model for visual tracking through heavy occlusion and containment, and a task where the goal is to segment both the projected extent of the target object, as well as the surrounding container or occluder whenever one exists.

    21
  • The Second Visual Object Tracking Segmentation VOTS2024 Challenge Results

    Matej Kristan, Jiřı́ Matas, Pavel Tokmakov, Michael Felsberg, Luka Čehovin Zajc, Alan Lukežič, Khanh-Tung Tran, Xuan-Son Vu, +22 more

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2025

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  • Learning Semantic Segmentation with Weakly-Annotated Videos

    Pavel Tokmakov, Karteek Alahari, Cordelia Schmid

    arXiv · 2016

    This work presents motion-CNN (M-CNN), a novel FCNN framework which incorporates motion cues and is learned from video-level weak annotations, and demonstrates that the performance of M-CNN learned with 150 weak video annotations is on par with state-of-the-art weakly-supervised methods trained with thousands of images.

    13
  • ReferevErything: Towards Segmenting Everything we can Speak of in Videos

    Anurag Bagchi, Zhipeng Bao, Yu-Xiong Wang, Pavel Tokmakov, Martial Hebert

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2025

    12
  • Zero-Shot Open-Vocabulary Tracking with Large Pre-Trained Models

    Wen-Hsuan Chu, Adam W. Harley, Pavel Tokmakov, Achal Dave, Leonidas J. Guibas, Katerina Fragkiadaki

    Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings · 2024

    This paper combines an open-vocabulary detector, segmenter, and dense optical flow estimator into a model that tracks and segments any object in 2D videos, and outperforms previous state-of-the-art in UVO and BURST, benchmarks for open-world object tracking and segmentation, despite never being explicitly trained for tracking.

    11
  • Towards Latent Attribute Discovery From Triplet Similarities

    Ishan Nigam, Pavel Tokmakov, Deva Ramanan

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

    11
  • A Study on Action Detection in the Wild

    Yubo Zhang, Pavel Tokmakov, Martial Hebert, Cordelia Schmid

    arXiv · 2019

    11
  • A careful examination of large behavior models for multitask dexterous manipulation

    Jose Augusto Lima Barreiros, Andrew Beaulieu, Aditya D. Bhat, Rick Cory, Eric A. Cousineau, Hongkai Dai, Ching-Hsin Fang, Kunimatsu Hashimoto, +22 more

    Science Robotics · 2026

    It is found that multitask pretraining made the policies more successful and robust and enabled teaching complex new tasks more quickly, using a fraction of the data when compared with single-task baselines, and performance predictably increased as pretraining scale and diversity grows.

    8
  • GRIN: Zero-Shot Metric Depth with Pixel-Level Diffusion

    Vitor Guizilini, Pavel Tokmakov, Achal Dave, Rareş Ambruş

    International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) · 2025

    This paper presents GRIN, an efficient diffusion model designed to ingest sparse unstructured training data, and uses image features with 3D geometric positional encodings to condition the diffusion process both globally and locally, generating depth predictions at a pixel-level.

    8
  • Learning to Track Any Object

    Achal Dave, Pavel Tokmakov, Cordelia Schmid, Deva Ramanan

    arXiv · 2019

    6
  • Robot Critics that Sweat the Small Stuff

    Sruthi Sudhakar, Junbang Liang, Sreehari Rammohan, Pavel Tokmakov, Richard Zemel, Carl Vondrick

    arXiv · 2026

    A method to fine-tune critics by constructing pairwise progress supervision using success and failure rollouts obtained from a policy, which results in a fine-tuned critic that excels at fine-grained progress reasoning and subtle failure detection, outperforming prior progress reasoning baselines.

    5
  • Robust Multi-Object 4D Generation for In-the-wild Videos

    Wen-Hsuan Chu, Lei Ke, Jianmeng Liu, Mingxiao Huo, Pavel Tokmakov, Katerina Fragkiadaki

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2025

    5
  • Capturing Visual Environment Structure Correlates with Control Performance

    Jiahua Dong, Yunze Man, Pavel Tokmakov, Yu-Xiong Wang

    arXiv · 2026

    This study provides insight into the representational properties that support generalizable manipulation, suggesting that learning to encode the latent physical state of the environment is a promising objective for control.

    3
  • RoboDream: Compositional World Models for Scalable Robot Data Synthesis

    Junjie Ye, Rong Xue, Basile Van Hoorick, Runhao Li, Harshitha Rajaprakash, Pavel Tokmakov, Muhammad Zubair Irshad, Vitor Guizilini, +1 more

    arXiv · 2026

    This work presents a generalizable embodiment-centric world model that achieves scalable data generation by synthesizing photorealistic demonstrations with novel objects, in novel scenes, and from novel viewpoints, and demonstrates with real-world experiments that the generated data consistently improves downstream policy performance and significantly reduces real-world data requirements across diverse manipulation tasks.

    3
  • The Third Visual Object Tracking Segmentation VOTS2025 Challenge Results

    Matei Kristan, Jiřı́ Matas, Pavel Tokmakov, Alan Lukežič, Michael Felsberg, Luka Čehovin Zajc, Khanh-Tung Tran, Xuan-Son Vu, +22 more

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW) · 2025

    3
  • Understanding Complexity in VideoQA via Visual Program Generation

    Cristóbal Eyzaguirre, Igor Vasiljevic, Achal Dave, Jiajun Wu, Rareş Ambruş, Thomas Kollar, Juan Carlos Niebles, Pavel Tokmakov

    arXiv · 2025

    An algorithm for estimating question complexity from code is proposed, which identifies fine-grained primitives that correlate with the hardest questions for any given set of models, making it easy to scale to new approaches in the future.

    3
  • Learning from motion

    Pavel Tokmakov

    2018

    This thesis attempts to bridge the gap between weakly- supervised and fully-supervised methods by utilizing motion information by proposing a learning-based method for motion segmentation: a convolutional neural network that takes optical flow as input and is trained to segment objects that move independently from the camera.

    3
  • Learning Generalizable Representations via Diverse Supervision.

    Ziqi Pang, Zhiyuan Hu, Pavel Tokmakov, Yu-Xiong Wang, Martial Hebert

    arXiv · 2019

    The ADE-FewShot benchmark is introduced, which stands upon the ADE dataset for scene parsing that features a realistic, long-tail distribution of categories as well as a diverse set of annotations and is turned into a realistic few-shot classification benchmark.

    2
  • Walk Through Paintings: Egocentric World Models from Internet Priors

    Anurag Bagchi, Zhipeng Bao, Homanga Bharadhwaj, Yu-Xiong Wang, Pavel Tokmakov, Martial Hebert

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2026

    1
  • Generative 4D Scene Gaussian Splatting with Object View-Synthesis Priors

    Wen-Hsuan Chu, Lei Ke, Liu, Jianmeng, Mingxiao Huo, Pavel Tokmakov, Katerina Fragkiadaki

    arXiv · 2025

    GenMOJO, a novel approach that integrates rendering-based deformable 3D Gaussian optimization with generative priors for view synthesis, generates more realistic novel views of scenes and produces more accurate point tracks compared to existing approaches.

    1
  • Unlocking the Full Potential of Small Data with Diverse Supervision

    Ziqi Pang, Zhiyuan Hu, Pavel Tokmakov, Yu-Xiong Wang, Martial Hebert

    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW) · 2021

    1
  • Relational Linear Programs

    Kristian Kersting, Martin Mladenov, Pavel Tokmakov

    arXiv · 2014

    1
  • Data from: A careful examination of large behavior models for multitask dexterous manipulation

    Hadas Kress‐Gazit, Naveen Suresh Kuppuswamy, Mengchao Zhang, Russ Tedrake, Jose Augusto Lima Barreiros, Andrew Beaulieu, Bhat, Aditya, Rick Cory, +22 more

    DRYAD · 2026

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  • UniGen-AR: Unifying Visual Generation with Auto-Regressive Modeling

    Zhipeng Bao, Zhen Zhu, Nupur Kumari, Anurag Bagchi, Yu-Xiong Wang, Pavel Tokmakov, Martial Hebert

    arXiv · 2026

    Unigen-AR, a framework that pairs a general-purpose multi-modal language model (MLLM) with an efficient next-scale visual auto-regressive (VAR) decoder, is proposed, establishing visual auto-regressive modeling as a compelling and efficient backbone for unified visual generation.

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  • AnyView: Synthesizing Any Novel View in Dynamic Scenes

    Basile Van Hoorick, Dian Chen, Shun Iwase, Pavel Tokmakov, Muhammad Zubair Irshad, Igor Vasiljevic, Swati Gupta, Fangzhou Cheng, +2 more

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2026

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  • What 30,000 Hours of Ego-centric Video Does Not Teach

    Jiahua Dong, Anurag Bagchi, Yash Jangir, Muhammad Zubair Irshad, Sergey Zakharov, Martial Hebert, Homanga Bharadhwaj, Yu-Xiong Wang, +2 more

    arXiv · 2026

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  • New Results - Visual Recognition in Images and Videos

    Gunnar A. Sigurdsson, Abhinav Kumar Gupta, Cordelia Schmid, Ali Farhadi, Karteek Alahari, Pavel Tokmakov, Daan Wynen, Julien Mairal, +22 more

    2018

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  • New Results - Visual recognition in videos

    Philippe Weinzaepfel, Xavier Martín, Cordelia Schmid, Pavel Tokmakov, Karteek Alahari, Xiaojiang Peng, Vicky S. Kalogeiton, Vittorio Ferrari

    2016

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