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48 results for motion understanding

Finsler space is differentiable manifold for which Minkowski space is the fiber of the tangent bundle. To understand structure of the reference frame in Finsler space, we need to understand the structure of orthonormal basis in Minkowski space. In this paper, I considered the definition of orthonormal basis in Minkowsk…

2011-07-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Selective relevance method improves motion explainability in 3D activity recognition models.

problem Models do not appropriately factor motion information into their decisions.
method Selective relevance method to adapt 2D explanation techniques for 3D inputs.
result Improves selectivity of motion explanations, revealing model's spatial bias.

Introduces Motion Programs for better video analysis of human motion.

problem Current video analysis focuses on raw pixels or keypoints, missing higher-level motion primitives.
method Introduces Motion Programs as a neuro-symbolic representation of motions as a composition of high-level primitives.
result Motion Programs accurately describe diverse human motions and improve downstream tasks.

There is a remarkable and canonical problem in 3D geometry and topology: To understand existing models of 3D fluid motion or to create new ones that may be useful. We discuss from an algebraic viewpoint the PDE called Euler's equation for incompressible frictionless fluid motion. In part I we define a "finite dimension…

2010-10-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper introduces TAP-Vid, a benchmark for tracking any point in videos.

problem Tackles the problem of tracking arbitrary physical points on surfaces over longer video clips.
method Formalizes the problem as TAP, introduces TAP-Vid benchmark, uses crowdsourced pipeline with optical flow estimates, proposes TAP-Net model.
result TAP-Net outperforms all prior methods on TAP-Vid benchmark when trained on synthetic data.

Understanding how images of objects and scenes behave in response to specific ego-motions is a crucial aspect of proper visual development, yet existing visual learning methods are conspicuously disconnected from the physical source of their images. We propose to exploit proprioceptive motor signals to provide unsuperv…

2015-05-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep network predicts action sequences for complex tasks from a scene image.

problem Scalable task and motion planning from initial scene images.
method Deep convolutional recurrent neural network that predicts action sequences.
result Predicts promising action sequences, reducing motion planning problems.

Motion analysis is used in computer vision to understand the behaviour of moving objects in sequences of images. Optimising the interpretation of dynamic biological systems requires accurate and precise motion tracking as well as efficient representations of high-dimensional motion trajectories so that these can be use…

2018-10-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Geometric approach improves motion alignment accuracy and efficiency.

problem Temporal alignment of human motion data for various applications.
method Geometric point of view, principal fiber bundle, reparameterization invariant projection, dynamic programming, keyframe correspondences.
result Temporal alignment procedures are more accurate and computationally efficient.

Finsler space is differentiable manifold for which Minkowski space is the fiber of the tangent bundle. To understand structure of the reference frame in Finsler space, we need to understand the structure of orthonormal basis in Minkowski space. In this paper, we considered the definition of orthonormal basis in Minkows…

2012-01-19abs ↗pdf ↗

New perspective on SGD reveals short-range memory effects in deep learning.

problem Understanding the efficacy of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) in deep learning.
method Proposed that SGD is a discretization of an SDE driven by fractional Brownian motion (FBM).
result SGD stays longer in flat minima, favoring generalization.

This paper is an attempt at understanding the quantum-like dynamics of financial markets in terms of non-differentiable price-time continuum having fractal properties. The main steps of this development are the statistical scaling, the non-differentiability hypothesis, and the equations of motion entailed by this hypot…

2013-12-11abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we determine the Poisson boundary of the relativistic Brownian motion in two classes of Lorentzian manifolds, namely model manifolds of constant scalar curvature and Robertson--Walker space-times, the latter constituting a large family of curved manifolds. Our objective is two fold: on the one hand, to u…

2018-12-29abs ↗pdf ↗

The minority game (MG) model introduced recently provides promising insights into the understanding of the evolution of prices, indices and rates in the financial markets. In this paper we perform a time series analysis of the model employing tools from statistics, dynamical systems theory and stochastic processes. Usi…

2002-03-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Study of a generalized geometric Brownian motion with varying entry and exit rates.

problem Understanding the long-run behavior of economic systems with growth, volatility, entry, and exit.
method Generalized geometric Brownian motion framework with varying entry and exit rates, analyzing moments and survival probability.
result Optimal exit rate minimizes mean first-passage time, influencing system outcome.

The Lie group Sol(p,q) is the semidirect product induced by the action of the real numbers R on the plane R^2 which is given by (x,y) --> (exp{p z} x, exp{-q z} y), where z is in R. Viewing Sol(p,q) as a 3-dimensional manifold, it carries a natural Riemannian metric and Laplace-Beltrami operator. We add a linear drift …

2011-05-23abs ↗pdf ↗

In considering the mathematical problem of describing the geodesics on a torus or any other surface of revolution, there is a tremendous advantage in conceptual understanding that derives from taking the point of view of a physicist by interpreting parametrized geodesics as the paths traced out in time by the motion of…

2012-12-26abs ↗pdf ↗

New method extracts stochastic laws from data, including Lévy noise.

problem Extracting stochastic laws from data with non-Gaussian noise.
method Using normalizing flows to estimate transition density, then applying nonlocal Kramers-Moyal formulas.
result Can learn stochastic differential equations with Lévy motion.

Zero-shot understanding of accidents from surveillance videos using vision-language models

problem Accident understanding from surveillance videos
method Three-stage pipeline with vision-language similarity, metadata-driven multi-prompt reasoning, and entropy-gated pairwise adjudicator
result Substantial improvement in harmonic-mean score over baseline

Research on long-range memory in financial and social systems using various models.

problem Understanding the nature of long-range memory in socioeconomic systems.
method Various Markov processes including point processes, stochastic differential equations, and agent-based models.
result New estimators of self-similarity and long-range memory for non-Gaussian systems are needed.

Unified framework for human motion generation on Riemannian manifolds.

problem Learning valid human motion in Euclidean spaces.
method Riemannian Motion Generation (RMG) on product manifolds, Riemannian flow matching.
result Achieves state-of-the-art FID (0.043) on HumanML3D and surpasses strong baselines on MotionMillion.

Study on determinants of unitary Brownian motion and their asymptotic laws.

problem Understanding determinants of unitary Brownian motion and their behavior over time.
method Using Stiefel fibration and skew-product decomposition of the Stiefel Brownian motion.
result Prove asymptotic laws for determinants of block entries of unitary Brownian motion.

New framework predicts diverse, contextually plausible 3D human motions.

problem Predicting multiple plausible future 3D poses given observed poses.
method Developed a new variational framework that conditions latent variable on past observation to encourage relevant information.
result Our approach generates motions of higher quality and preserves contextual information.

Shapelet transform improves time series classification for earthquake, wind, and wave events.

problem Autonomous detection of specific events from large time series datasets in civil engineering.
method Shapelet transform for local similarity in time series subsequences, combined with machine learning.
result Shapelet transform yields a new feature representation for time series signals in civil engineering.

Cointegration helps insurers understand long-range mortality patterns.

problem Insurers struggle to detect long-range dependence in their mortality data.
method Cointegration techniques applied to mixed fractional Brownian motion (mfBm) to capture long-range dependence.
result Cointegration brings long-range dependence information from national mortality data to insurers' models.

Humans gain an implicit understanding of physical laws through observing and interacting with the world. Endowing an autonomous agent with an understanding of physical laws through experience and observation is seldom practical: we should seek alternatives. Fortunately, many of the laws of behaviour of the physical wor…

2018-12-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural network predicts vessel motions with high accuracy.

problem Real-time prediction of heave and surge motions for improved performance and safety.
method Developed an LSTM-based machine learning model trained on measured waves and motion data.
result The model predicts vessel motions up to 46.5 seconds into the future with an average accuracy of 90%.

Let EE be a closed set in the Riemann sphere C^\widehat{\mathbb{C}}. We consider a holomorphic motion φφ of EE over a complex manifold MM, that is, a holomorphic family of injections on EE parametrized by MM. It is known that if MM is the unit disk ΔΔ in the complex plane, then any holomorphic motion of EE ove…

2017-09-22abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we use the generalized Hurst exponent approach to study the multi- scaling behavior of different financial time series. We show that this approach is robust and powerful in detecting different types of multiscaling. We observe a puzzling phenomenon where an apparent increase in multifractality is measure…

2012-01-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Study cohomological equation for robotic screw motions on SE(3).

problem Understanding obstruction phenomena in robotic rigid-body motion.
method Combining Fourier analysis and Peter-Weyl theory, reduce to finite-dimensional linear transport systems.
result Explicit screw motion illustrates resonance conditions and finite-dimensional obstructions.

New approach for obstacle avoidance in robotics using learned representations.

problem Challenges in sensor-based motion planning for new and dynamic environments.
method Proposes a new obstacle representation using PointNet architecture trained jointly with policies for obstacle avoidance.
result Significant improvements in accuracy and efficiency compared to state of the art.