Video Representation Learning

Overview

Video representation learning studies how to encode frames and their evolution into features useful for tasks such as action recognition, dense tracking, retrieval, generation, and robot planning. Common approaches include masked reconstruction, contrastive learning, predictive latent objectives such as JEPA, explicit motion and trajectory cues, multimodal alignment, and transfer from image encoders. Evaluations span action datasets such as Kinetics and Something-Something, egocentric and tracking benchmarks such as Ego4D and TAP-Vid, and embodied settings such as NAVSIM and robotic manipulation. A central challenge is learning features that preserve semantic appearance while capturing temporal order, geometry, and action-relevant dynamics without prohibitive data and compute costs; standard recognition scores do not always reveal these capabilities.

Latest papers

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143 papers23 papers in the last four weeks, up 35% on the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

  1. Ego-CEVR: Learning Cross-Embodiment Visual Representations from Human Egocentric Videos

    Oct 27, 2026Keru Zhou, Zhirui Fang, Xinrun Xu +19Visual Representation LearningRobot Learning from Video

  2. Joint Latent Reasoning and Observation for Agentic Video Understanding

    Oct 26, 2026Junzhang Liu, Hao Yuan, Yiming Wu +3Video UnderstandingKnowledge Distillation

  3. TrackTok: Object-Centric Video Tokenization with Semantically Persistent Tokens

    Oct 24, 2026Nhi Pham, Christopher Wewer, Bernt Schiele +2Visual TokenizationVideo Object-Centric Learning

  4. EndoWorld-JEPA: Motion-Guided Global-Local Latent World Modeling for Endoscopic Video Representation Learning

    Oct 20, 2026Jie Wang, Shilong Yang, Tao Zhou +5Video Representation LearningLatent World Models

  5. Thinking from Above: Efficient Spatial Reasoning with Bird's-Eye-View Visual Tokens

    Oct 15, 2026Faizan Siddiqui, Nirav Savaliya, Sahith Reddy Chada +1Visual Spatial ReasoningBird's-Eye-View Representation

  6. One-shot Human Video-Guided Adaptation for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Oct 14, 2026Qi Chen, Yuwei Wu, Quan Chen +5VLA Model AdaptationVision-Language-Action Models

  7. VGGA: Geometry-Grounded Autoencoder for Video Generation

    Oct 12, 2026Chaofan Gan, Yian Zhao, Shijie Li +4Video GenerationAutoencoders

  8. MORE: Learning Motion-Oriented Registers for Driving World Models and Planning

    Oct 10, 2026Yingdong Gu, Haoyu Wang, Shaocheng Yan +9World Models for Autonomous DrivingVideo Representation Learning

  9. HuC-VideoMAE: Human-Centric Video Masked Autoencoding from synthetic data

    Oct 6, 2026Ricardo Pizarro, Roberto Valle, José M. Buenaposada +2Synthetic Data PretrainingMasked Autoencoders

  10. Video Encoders Built on Image Representations

    Oct 5, 2026Jusheng Zhang, Wenhao Wang, Longqi Cai +3Video-Language ModelsVideo Representation Learning

  11. World Embedding Benchmark

    Oct 2, 2026Yiqi Liu, Ruifeng Yuan, Yang Wang +7Physical Reasoning in VideoVideo Representation Learning

  12. Affine-Aligned Atlas for Canonical Gaussian Construction in Video Representation

    Oct 1, 2026Masaya Takabe, Hiroshi Watanabe, Sujun Hong +13D Gaussian SplattingDynamic Scene Reconstruction

  13. Image Classifiers are Efficient Self-Supervised Video Representation Learners

    Sep 30, 2026Owais Iqbal, Sudipta Sarkar, Shyam Marjit +3Self-Supervised Pre-TrainingVideo Representation Learning

  14. I Have a Stream: Making Self-Supervised Learning Work on Continuous Video

    Sep 30, 2026Ivan Martinović, Lukas Knobel, Yuki M. AsanoMasked AutoencodersSelf-Supervised Learning

  15. CoVisco: Codec-Native Vision Encoder with Native Token Compression for Unified Image-Video Understanding

    Sep 30, 2026Yulong Liu, Xiaotian Han, Junyuan Shang +6Video UnderstandingEfficient VLM Inference

  16. RESUME: Recurrent State Updates from Motion and Residual Signals for Efficient Video Language Modeling

    Sep 30, 2026Can Zhang, Xiaotian Han, Junyuan Shang +5Video-Language ModelsVideo Representation Learning

  17. CurvSpec: Adaptive Multi-Curvature Learning for Partial Relevant Video Retrieval

    Sep 29, 2026Zhen Liu, Letian Li, Jinpeng Wang +4Cross-Modal RetrievalVideo Representation Learning

  18. W2Rep: Learning Visual Representations by Watching the World Change

    Sep 28, 2026Wen Huang, Hang Guo, Jiarui Yang +3Video Representation LearningSelf-Supervised Visual Representation Learning

  19. Generative Uncertainty as a Self-supervised Signal for Semantic Similarity Learning

    Sep 28, 2026Enrico Pallotta, Sina Raoufi, Lars Doorenbos +2Video Representation LearningFeature Selection

  20. λλ-JEPA Spectral Anti-Collapse Regularization for Self-Supervised Learning

    Sep 28, 2026Berker Demirel, Clémentine Dominé, Valentino Maiorca +3Spectral RegularizationJoint-Embedding Predictive Architecture

  21. ReDrive: Shaping Representations with World Modeling for End-to-End Driving

    Sep 27, 2026Yueting Zhu, Shaoyu Chen, Yuehao Song +4World Model LearningEnd-to-End Autonomous Driving

  22. TT-VidT: Decoupling the Temporal Axis for Efficient Motion-Centric Video Pretraining

    Sep 27, 2026Shih-Ying Yeh, Daniel Z. Kaplan, Xuehai Wang +3Efficient ViTsVideo Representation Learning

  23. Octree-based Video Representation

    Sep 27, 2026Rungui Zhou, Chuanzhi Zhou, Yuk-Kit Hou +1Video Representation LearningNeural Video Compression

  24. Video-STLayout Pre-training

    Sep 21, 2026Akash Abdu Jyothi, Greg MoriVideo Action RecognitionVideo Representation Learning