arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

Semantic Slots for Video Object-Centric Learning

Semantic Slots for Video Object-Centric Learning proposes a Transformer-based decoder that frees slots from spatial anchoring, enabling them to act as semantic queries invariant to object position. This design removes the need for complex temporal predictors, allowing a single-frame slot to decompose subsequent video frames. On YouTube-VIS, the method outperforms prior approaches, improving mBO by 31 points over VideoSAUR and achieving state-of-the-art results with 86.6% ARI and 62.8% mBO.

By Khalil Sabri, Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau, Nicolas Saunier, Wassim Bouachir
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 27

Skeleton-based Zero-Shot Spatio-Temporal Action Localization via Weakly-Supervised Pretraining

The paper introduces Skeleton-Language feature Pooling Switching, a weakly‑supervised vision‑language pretraining strategy for skeleton‑based zero‑shot spatio‑temporal action localization. It replaces video‑level pooling with instance‑level feature computation during inference, enabling the model to estimate unseen actions without costly annotations. Additionally, Scene‑Mixed Discriminative Contrastive Learning is proposed to separate actions at the instance level within mixed scenes using a MIL framework, and experiments on four public datasets confirm the method’s effectiveness.

By Koshiro Nagano, Fumiaki Sato, Ryo Hachiuma, Kazuki Tsutsukawa, Taiki Sekii
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Oct 8

SV-TAD: Native Sparse Convs for Efficient Temporal Action Detection

SV‑TAD introduces native sparse 2D convolutions to enable convolutional adapters to operate directly on dynamically pruned token sets, addressing the inefficiency of existing adapters that do not reduce inference‑time computation. By integrating this primitive, SV‑TAD cuts VideoMAEv2‑L computation by up to 64% and achieves 2.2× faster inference while preserving state‑of‑the‑art accuracy on THUMOS‑14 and ActivityNet‑1.3. When applied to InternVideoNext‑L, the approach surpasses prior state‑of‑the‑art performance at roughly half the computational cost and also supports auxiliary task tokens, improving fine‑grained assembly detection on ATTACH.