Improved representations from multiple video views.
problem Learning reliable representations across unaligned video modalities.
method Correlation-based representation learning on a 4-way parallel multimodal dataset.
result Best models achieve retrieval rates up to 96.9% on open-domain instructional videos.
Study finds neural dialog models struggle with conversational tasks.
problem Insufficient understanding of dialog by neural models.
method Analysis of internal representations and evaluation of model performance.
result Neural dialog models lack key conversational skills like answering questions and inferring contradiction.
HRL improves open-domain dialog models by optimizing long-term conversational goals.
problem Challenges in open-domain dialog generation, including repetitive outputs, difficulty tracking conversational goals, and inappropriate text.
method Proposes VHRL, a hierarchical reinforcement learning approach using policy gradients to tune utterance-level embeddings of a variational sequence model.
result Significant improvements in human evaluation and automatic metrics over state-of-the-art dialog models.
This study compares hierarchical and non-hierarchical models for open-domain multi-turn dialog generation.
problem Which kind of models (hierarchical or non-hierarchical) is better for open-domain multi-turn dialog generation?
method Systematically compared nearly all representative hierarchical and non-hierarchical models over the same experimental settings.
result Nearly all hierarchical models are worse than non-hierarchical models in open-domain multi-turn dialog generation, except for HRAN.
In this Note we establish a relation between sections in globally generated holomorphic vector bundles on Kähler manifolds, isotropic with respect to a non-degenerate quadratic form, and totally geodesic foliations on Euclidean open domains. We find a geometric condition for a totally geodesic foliation to originate in…
Meena is a chatbot trained on social media data, achieving human-like conversation quality.
problem Creating a chatbot that can have human-like conversations in an open-domain setting.
method End-to-end training of a 2.6B parameter neural network on social media data, using perplexity and a human evaluation metric (SSA) to assess quality.
result Meena achieves a high human-like conversation quality (79% SSA) when compared to existing chatbots.
New domains of discontinuity found for Anosov representations.
problem Understanding Anosov representations acting on homogeneous spaces.
method Constructing open domains of discontinuity for Anosov representations acting on specific homogeneous spaces.
result Describes the largest possible open domains of discontinuity for Zariski dense Anosov representations.
We investigate different concentration-compactness phenomena related to the Q-curvature in arbitrary even dimension. We first treat the case of an open domain in R2m, then that of a closed manifold and, finally, the particular case of the sphere S2m. In all cases we allow the sign of the Q-curvature to vary, …
Paper improves emotion expression in AI chatbots.
problem AI chatbots generate responses that lack emotion.
method Developed neural models to express specific emotions in generated responses.
result An encoder-decoder model with multiple attention layers performs best in expressing required emotion.
We construct open domains in Euclidean 3-space which do not admit complete properly immersed minimal surfaces with an annular end. These domains can not be smooth by a recent result of Martin and Morales
Paper proposes a self-play method to approximate human evaluation of conversational agents.
problem Challenges in evaluating open-domain dialog systems.
method Self-play scenario with sentiment and semantic coherence proxies.
result Self-play metric correlates significantly with human ratings (r>.7, p<.05).
Paper develops a model for verifying facts in tables without pre-retrieved evidence.
problem Verification of factual claims in structured data, especially in open-domain settings.
method Joint reranking-and-verification model that fuses evidence documents.
result Model achieves comparable performance to closed-domain state-of-the-art on TabFact dataset.
It is a theorem of S. Bando that if g(t) is a solution to the Ricci flow on a compact manifold M, then (M,g(t)) is real-analytic for each t>0. In this note, we extend his result to smooth solutions on open domains U⊂M.
We prove that given an open Riemann surface N, there exists an open domain M⊂N homeomorphic to N which properly holomorphically embeds in C2. Furthermore, M can be chosen with hyperbolic conformal type. In particular, any open orientable surface admits a complex structure properly holomorphic…
Improved text embeddings enhance retrieval from a knowledge base.
problem Efficiently retrieving relevant paragraphs from a large knowledge base.
method Used Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD) for open-domain question answering. Compared various text-embedding methods and trained deep residual neural models for retrieval.
result Training deep residual neural models for retrieval purposes significantly improves paragraph recall.
Ground-A-Video edits videos without training, preserving intended changes.
problem Complex multi-attribute video editing with omitted or wrong changes.
method Grounding-guided video-to-video translation with Cross-Frame Gated Attention.
result Zero-shot multi-attribute video editing with improved accuracy and frame consistency.
The reduction of biharmonic maps equation in terms of the Maurer-Cartan form for all smooth map of any compact Riemannian manifolds into a compact Lie group with bi-invariant Riemannian metric is obtained. By this formula, all the biharmonic curves into a compact Lie group and all biharmonic maps from a 2-dimensional o…
Consider a strictly convex bounded regular domain C of R3. For any arbitrary finite topological type we find a compact Riemann surface M, an open domain M⊂M with the fixed topological type, and a conformal complete proper minimal immersion X:M→C which can be extended to a conti…
CB-GLNs learn video data's complex dependencies via graph representation.
problem Capturing complex dependency structures in sequential data like videos.
method Represent video data as a graph, find compositional dependencies via graph-cut and message passing.
result CB-GLNs efficiently learn video data's semantic compositional structure.
RaMViD uses diffusion models for video prediction and infilling.
problem Predicting and infilling missing information in videos.
method Extends image diffusion models to videos using 3D convolutions and a new conditioning technique.
result Achieves state-of-the-art results on video prediction benchmarks.
Current deep learning results on video generation are limited while there are only a few first results on video prediction and no relevant significant results on video completion. This is due to the severe ill-posedness inherent in these three problems. In this paper, we focus on human action videos, and propose a gene…
New metric for video generation models, addressing quality, coherence, and diversity.
problem Lack of metrics for evaluating generative models of video.
method Proposed Fréchet Video Distance (FVD) and StarCraft 2 Videos (SCV) benchmark.
result FVD correlates well with human judgment of generated videos.
LumièreNet creates lecture videos from audio narration.
problem Creating high-quality lecture videos from audio narration.
method Modular deep-learning architecture that learns from audio to video.
result Synthesizes high-quality lecture videos from any length of audio.
Paper defends against adversarial videos by detecting and reducing imperceptible perturbations.
problem Adversarial videos can fool well-trained video classification models.
method Temporal consistency between frames and spatial denoising to detect and reduce perturbations.
result The proposed method significantly improves robustness against adversarial attacks.
Paper improves video categorization using temporal coherence.
problem Video categorization in multiple modalities.
method Temporal coherence-based regularization for multimodal models.
result Models with temporal coherence outperform state-of-the-art.
Improves video search by balancing text and visual modalities.
problem Modality imbalance in video search models, focusing mainly on text matching.
method Proposes MBVR with MS samples and DM to balance modalities.
result Empirically shows significant improvement in modality balance and search effectiveness.
A new video prediction model treats videos as continuous processes, reducing sampling steps and improving efficiency.
problem Efficiency and temporal coherence in video prediction models.
method Treats videos as a continuous multi-dimensional process, reducing sampling steps.
result Reduction of 75% sampling steps, state-of-the-art performance on benchmark datasets.
UDVD uses deep learning to denoise videos without supervision.
problem Lack of clean video data for training deep learning models.
method UDVD is a CNN trained solely on noisy video data, adapting to local motion.
result UDVD performs as well as supervised methods, even with limited training data.
Proposes TDNs for learning complex video structures.
problem Complex temporal dependencies in sequential data, especially videos.
method Temporal Dependency Networks (TDNs) using graph representations and graph convolutions.
result Efficiently learns complex semantic structures of video data.
SummaryNet automates video summarisation using deep learning.
problem Creating informative video summaries from videos.
method Two-stream convolutional network for spatial and temporal features, encoder-decoder model for salient features, sigmoid regression with LSTM for frame probability.
result SummaryNet achieves comparable or better results than state-of-the-art methods on benchmark datasets.
Paper proposes SMFN for high-res spherical video super-resolution.
problem Super-resolution of 360-degree panoramic videos is expensive and challenging.
method Deformable convolutions, mixed attention mechanism, dual learning strategy, weighted mean square error loss function.
result The proposed SMFN method improves super-resolution of equatorial regions in 360-degree videos.
Generative model produces high-fidelity video samples.
problem Generating high-fidelity videos from complex datasets.
method Large GAN trained on Kinetics-600 dataset, using a computationally efficient discriminator.
result Achieved state-of-the-art metrics in video synthesis and prediction.
Generative model learns compact codes for video recovery.
problem Efficiently represent and reconstruct videos from missing data.
method Generative network trained to map compact latent codes to images, with low-rank and similarity constraints.
result Can recover true video sequences even if not in pretrained network's range.
Paper proposes new principles and framework for AVC learning from user-generated videos.
problem Challenges in learning audio-visual correspondence from short-term user-generated videos.
method Introduced new principles and a framework to facilitate AVC learning from videos' themes.
result Proposed approach outperformed baseline by 23.15% on KWAI-AD-AudVis corpus.
The extension of image generation to video generation turns out to be a very difficult task, since the temporal dimension of videos introduces an extra challenge during the generation process. Besides, due to the limitation of memory and training stability, the generation becomes increasingly challenging with the incre…
In this paper, the description of biharmonic map equation in terms of the Maurer-Cartan form for all smooth map of a compact Riemannian manifold into a Riemannian symmetric space (G/K,h) induced from the bi-invariant Riemannian metric h on G is obtained. By this formula, all biharmonic curves into symmetric space…
Lower-dimensional video discriminators improve GAN performance.
problem High curvature in unconstrained video discriminator loss surfaces.
method Proposed Lower-Dimensional Video Discriminators (LDVD GANs).
result LDVD GANs double Temporal-GAN performance and achieve state-of-the-art performance.
In this paper we analyze the problem of the geodesic connectedness of subsets of Riemannian manifolds. By using variational methods, the geodesic connectedness of open domains (whose boundaries can be not differentiable and not convex) of a smooth Riemannian manifold is proved. In some cases also the convexity of the d…
System automates discovery and classification of training videos for career progression.
problem Difficulties in planning and navigating career paths due to changing job requirements and emerging sectors.
method Extracted educational videos, built a machine learning classifier, and optimized probability thresholds.
result Significant improvements in model performance by incorporating video attributes.
With the growth of user-generated content, we observe the constant rise of the number of companies, such as search engines, content aggregators, etc., that operate with tremendous amounts of web content not being the services hosting it. Thus, aiming to locate the most important content and promote it to the users, the…
Scalable system predicts hot videos for peak VOD service.
problem Improving peak service quality of video on demand.
method Two neural networks: clustering and dispatch policy. Clustering reduces video numbers, dispatch policy ranks videos with probabilities. Networks are trained end-to-end.
result Average prediction accuracy of 17% compared to 3% baseline, for same number of dispatches.
Paper proposes graph-based separable transforms for video coding.
problem Improving video coding efficiency by better capturing residual block statistics.
method Derives graph-based separable transforms (GBSTs) from line graphs with weights determined by parameters.
result GBSTs achieve about 0.4% average coding gain over existing transforms in VVC.
Jointly trains images and videos using residual vectors.
problem Generating high-quality videos from images and vice versa.
method Simultaneously learns latent variables for images and videos using residual vectors.
result Improves sample quality and diversity in video generation and image generation.
Paper proposes detecting video manipulation using stream descriptors.
problem Misuse of manipulated video content.
method Binary classifiers on multimedia stream descriptors.
result Scalable approach can detect high-quality manipulations.
We present a geometric proof of the averaging theorem for perturbed dynamical systems on a Riemannian manifold, in the case where the flow of the unperturbed vector field is periodic and the S1-action associated to this vector field is not necessarily trivial. We generalize the averaging procedure \cite{A…
Paper introduces adversarial lossy compression for video artifacts reduction.
problem Unpleasant reconstruction artifacts in standard video coding schemes at low bit-rates.
method Adversarial lossy video compression model minimizing an adversarial distortion objective.
result Reduction of perceptual artifacts and detail reconstruction under extreme compression.
Advanced video classification systems decode video frames to derive the necessary texture and motion representations for ingestion and analysis by spatio-temporal deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, when considering visual Internet-of-Things applications, surveillance systems and semantic crawlers of la…
This paper highlights the need for explainable AI in video deep learning models.
problem Lack of explainable AI methods for video deep learning models.
method Illustrates the current state of video deep learning and highlights the need for explainability methods.
result Current explainability methods for video deep learning are insufficient and need improvement.