Summary of Learning to Visually Connect Actions and Their Effects, by Paritosh Parmar et al.
Learning to Visually Connect Actions and their Effects
by Paritosh Parmar, Eric Peh, Basura Fernando
First submitted to arxiv on: 19 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Robotics (cs.RO)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The novel concept of visually Connecting Actions and Their Effects (CATE) is introduced in the realm of video understanding. This concept has potential applications in task planning and learning from demonstration. Two distinct aspects of CATE are explored: Action Selection (AS) and Effect-Affinity Assessment (EAA), where models connect actions and effects at semantic and fine-grained levels, respectively. Baseline models for AS and EAA are designed, revealing that despite its intuitive nature, the task is challenging even for state-of-the-art models. Humans outperform these models by a significant margin. The study demonstrates that CATE can be an effective self-supervised task for learning video representations from unlabeled videos. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary CATE is a new way to understand videos by linking actions and their effects. This idea has many uses, like planning tasks or learning from demonstrations. There are two main parts to CATE: choosing the right action (AS) and determining how well an effect matches with its action (EAA). Models struggle with this task, even though it seems simple. Humans do much better than models. The study shows that CATE is a good way to learn about videos without any labels. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Self supervised
