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. Towards Data-Efficient Video Pre-training with Frozen Image Foundation Models

    May 18, 2026Svetlana Orlova, Niccolò Cavagnero, Gijs DubbelmanStreaming Video UnderstandingVision Foundation Model Adaptation

  2. Latent Video Prediction for World Modeling: An Evaluation Uncovering Intriguing Favorable Evidence

    May 15, 2026Ali J Alrasheed, Aryan Yazdan Parast, Basim Azam +2Video Representation LearningVideo Prediction

  3. STAR: Semantic-Temporal Adaptive Representation Learning for Few-Shot Action Recognition

    May 13, 2026Hongli Liu, Yu Wang, Shengjie ZhaoCross-Modal Representation LearningFew-Shot Learning

  4. Contrastive Learning under Noisy Temporal Self-Supervision for Colonoscopy Videos

    May 12, 2026Luca Parolari, Pietro Gori, Lamberto Ballan +2Contrastive LearningEndoscopy

  5. Hi-GaTA: Hierarchical Gated Temporal Aggregation Adapter for Surgical Video Report Generation

    May 11, 2026Kedi Sun, Chaohui Dang, Yue Feng +3Surgical Video UnderstandingVideo Representation Learning

  6. Compressed Video Aggregator: Content-driven Module for Efficient Micro-Video Recommendation

    May 9, 2026Yang Xiao, Huiyuan Chen, Kaiyuan Deng +5Video Representation LearningEmbedding Compression

  7. LookWhen? Fast Video Recognition by Learning When, Where, and What to Compute

    May 7, 2026Ali Salamatian, Anthony Fuller, Pritam Sarkar +3Efficient ViTsVideo Action Recognition

  8. HumanNet: Scaling Human-centric Video Learning to One Million Hours

    May 7, 2026Yufan Deng, Daquan ZhouHuman Activity RecognitionCross-Embodiment Robot Learning

  9. Video Generation with Predictive Latents

    May 4, 2026Yian Zhao, Feng Wang, Qiushan Guo +4Variational AutoencodersPredictive Coding

  10. TRIMMER: A New Paradigm for Video Summarization through Self-Supervised Reinforcement Learning

    May 3, 2026Pritam Mishra, Coloma Ballester, Dimosthenis KaratzasReinforcement LearningVideo Summarization

  11. Featurising Pixels from Dynamic 3D Scenes with Linear In-Context Learners

    Apr 29, 2026Nikita Araslanov, Martin Sundermeyer, Hidenobu Matsuki +2Video Representation Learning3D Scene Understanding

  12. Micro-Expression-Aware Avatar Fingerprinting via Inter-Frame Feature Differencing

    Apr 25, 2026Masoumeh Chapariniya, Jean-Marc Odobez, Volker Dellwo +1Biometric IdentificationVideo Representation Learning

  13. Efficient Logic Gate Networks for Video Copy Detection

    Apr 23, 2026Katarzyna FojcikEfficient Neural Network InferenceVideo Representation Learning

  14. Temporal Prototyping and Hierarchical Alignment for Unsupervised Video-based Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification

    Apr 23, 2026Zhiyong Li, Wei Jiang, Haojie Liu +3Prototype LearningVideo Representation Learning

  15. Motion-Guided Semantic Alignment with Negative Prompts for Zero-Shot Video Action Recognition

    Apr 18, 2026Yiming Wang, Frederick W. B. Li, Jingyun WangRepresentation LearningVideo Action Recognition

  16. ConvFormer3D-TAP: Phase/Uncertainty-Aware Front-End Fusion for Cine CMR View Classification Pipelines

    Apr 13, 2026Nafiseh Ghaffar Nia, Vinesh Appadurai, Suchithra V. +4Medical Image ClassificationCardiac MRI

  17. STGV: Spatio-Temporal Hash Encoding for Gaussian-based Video Representation

    Apr 13, 2026Jierun Lin, Jiacong Chen, Qingyu Mao +4Video Representation Learning3D Gaussian Splatting

  18. GTASA: Ground Truth Annotations for Spatiotemporal Analysis, Evaluation and Training of Video Models

    Apr 12, 2026Nicolae Cudlenco, Mihai Masala, Marius LeordeanuSynthetic Data GenerationVideo Representation Learning

  19. InstrAct: Towards Action-Centric Understanding in Instructional Videos

    Apr 9, 2026Zhuoyi Yang, Jiapeng Yu, Reuben Tan +2Video UnderstandingVideo-Language Models

  20. CWRNN-INVR: A Coupled WarpRNN based Implicit Neural Video Representation

    Apr 8, 2026Yiyang Li, Yanbo Gao, Shuai Li +5Video Representation LearningImplicit Neural Representations

  21. Interpreting Video Representations with Spatio-Temporal Sparse Autoencoders

    Apr 5, 2026Atahan Dokme, Sriram VishwanathSparse AutoencodersVideo Representation Learning

  22. Imagine Before Concentration: Diffusion-Guided Registers Enhance Partially Relevant Video Retrieval

    Apr 4, 2026Jun Li, Xuhang Lou, Jinpeng Wang +4Cross-Modal RetrievalInformation Retrieval

  23. Scaling Video Pretraining for Surgical Foundation Models

    Mar 31, 2026Sicheng Lu, Zikai Xiao, Jianhui Wei +7Surgical Video UnderstandingVideo Representation Learning

  24. TrackMAE: Video Representation Learning via Track Mask and Predict

    Mar 28, 2026Renaud Vandeghen, Fida Mohammad Thoker, Marc Van Droogenbroeck +1Video Representation LearningSelf-Supervised Visual Representation Learning

  25. From Static to Dynamic: Exploring Self-supervised Image-to-Video Representation Transfer Learning

    Mar 27, 2026Yang Liu, Qianqian Xu, Peisong Wen +3Video Representation LearningTransfer Learning

  26. Low-Rank-Modulated Functa: Exploring the Latent Space of Implicit Neural Representations for Interpretable Ultrasound Video Analysis

    Mar 26, 2026Julia Wolleb, Cristiana Baloescu, Alicia Durrer +2Medical Image Representation LearningImplicit Neural Representations

  27. Focus-to-Perceive Representation Learning: A Cognition-Inspired Hierarchical Framework for Endoscopic Video Analysis

    Mar 26, 2026Yuan Zhang, Sihao Dou, Kai Hu +4Video Representation LearningTemporal Video Understanding