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Triantafyllos Afouras

19 accepted papers

2026

SAM 3: Segment Anything with Concepts

ICLR 2026poster

We present Segment Anything Model (SAM) 3, a unified model that detects, segments, and tracks objects in images and videos based on concept prompts, which we define as either short noun phrases (e.g., “yellow school bus”), image exemplars, or a combination of both. Promptable Concept Segmentation (P…

Cited by 687SourcecodeScholar
2025

Enrich and Detect: Video Temporal Grounding with Multimodal LLMs

ICCV 2025poster

We introduce ED-VTG, a method for fine-grained video temporal grounding utilizing multi-modal large language models. Our approach harnesses the capabilities of multimodal LLMs to jointly process text and video, in order to effectively localize natural language queries in videos through a two-stage p…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

PerceptionLM: Open-Access Data and Models for Detailed Visual Understanding

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Vision-language models are integral to computer vision research, yet many high-performing models remain closed-source, obscuring their data, design and training recipe. The research community has responded by using distillation from black-box models to label training data, achieving strong benchmark…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2024

Ego-Exo4D: Understanding Skilled Human Activity from First- and Third-Person Perspectives

CVPR 2024poster

We present Ego-Exo4D a diverse large-scale multimodal multiview video dataset and benchmark challenge. Ego-Exo4D centers around simultaneously-captured egocentric and exocentric video of skilled human activities (e.g. sports music dance bike repair). 740 participants from 13 cities worldwide perform…

2024

MusicFlow: Cascaded Flow Matching for Text Guided Music Generation

ICML 2024poster

We introduce MusicFlow, a cascaded text-to-music generation model based on flow matching. Based on self-supervised representations to bridge between text descriptions and music audios, we construct two flow matching networks to model the conditional distribution of semantic and acoustic features. Ad…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2023

HT-Step: Aligning Instructional Articles with How-To Videos

NeurIPS 2023poster

We introduce HT-Step, a large-scale dataset containing temporal annotations of instructional article steps in cooking videos. It includes 122k segment-level annotations over 20k narrated videos (approximately 2.3k hours) of the HowTo100M dataset. Each annotation provides a temporal interval, and a c…

Cited by 18SourcePDFScholar
2023

Learning to Ground Instructional Articles in Videos through Narrations

ICCV 2023poster

In this paper we present an approach for localizing steps of procedural activities in narrated how-to videos. To deal with the scarcity of labeled data at scale, we source the step descriptions from a language knowledge base (wikiHow) containing instructional articles for a large variety of procedur…

Cited by 20PDFScholar
2023

Video-Mined Task Graphs for Keystep Recognition in Instructional Videos

NeurIPS 2023poster

Procedural activity understanding requires perceiving human actions in terms of a broader task, where multiple keysteps are performed in sequence across a long video to reach a final goal state---such as the steps of a recipe or the steps of a DIY fix-it task. Prior work largely treats keystep reco…

Cited by 29SourcePDFScholar
2022

Reading To Listen at the Cocktail Party: Multi-Modal Speech Separation

CVPR 2022poster

The goal of this paper is speech separation and enhancement in multi-speaker and noisy environments using a combination of different modalities. Previous works have shown good performance when conditioning on temporal or static visual evidence such as synchronised lip movements or face identity. In…

Cited by 34PDFScholar
2022

Self-Supervised Object Detection From Audio-Visual Correspondence

CVPR 2022poster

We tackle the problem of learning object detectors without supervision. Differently from weakly-supervised object detection, we do not assume image-level class labels. Instead, we extract a supervisory signal from audio-visual data, using the audio component to "teach" the object detector. While thi…

Cited by 64PDFScholar
2021

Aligning Subtitles in Sign Language Videos

ICCV 2021poster

The goal of this work is to temporally align asynchronous subtitles in sign language videos. In particular, we focus on sign-language interpreted TV broadcast data comprising (i) a video of continuous signing, and (ii) subtitles corresponding to the audio content. Previous work exploiting such weakl…

Cited by 39PDFScholar
2021

Localizing Visual Sounds the Hard Way

CVPR 2021poster

The objective of this work is to localize sound sources that are visible in a video without using manual annotations. Our key technical contribution is to show that, by training the network to explicitly discriminate challenging image fragments, even for images that do contain the object emitting th…

Cited by 234PDFScholar
2021

Read and Attend: Temporal Localisation in Sign Language Videos

CVPR 2021poster

The objective of this work is to annotate sign instances across a broad vocabulary in continuous sign language. We train a Transformer model to ingest a continuous signing stream and output a sequence of written tokens on a large-scale collection of signing footage with weakly-aligned subtitles. We…

Cited by 56PDFScholar
2021

SeeHear: Signer Diarisation and a New Dataset

ICASSP 2021accepted

In this work, we propose a framework to collect a large-scale, diverse sign language dataset that can be used to train automatic sign language recognition models.The first contribution of this work is SDTrack, a generic method for signer tracking and diarisation in the wild. Our second contribution…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2020

ASR is All You Need: Cross-Modal Distillation for Lip Reading

ICASSP 2020accepted

The goal of this work is to train strong models for visual speech recognition without requiring human annotated ground truth data. We achieve this by distilling from an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model that has been trained on a large-scale audio-only corpus. We use a cross-modal distillatio…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2020

BSL-1K: Scaling up co-articulated sign language recognition using mouthing cues

ECCV 2020poster

Recent progress in fine-grained gesture and action classification, and machine translation, point to the possibility of automated sign language recognition becoming a reality. A key stumbling block in making progress towards this goal is a lack of appropriate training data, stemming from the high co…

Cited by 221SourcePDFScholar
2020

Self-Supervised Learning of Audio-Visual Objects from Video

ECCV 2020poster

Our objective is to transform a video into a set of discrete audio-visual objects using self-supervised learning. To this end we introduce a model that uses attention to localize and group sound sources, and optical flow to aggregate information over time. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the aud…

Cited by 313SourcePDFScholar
2017

Stabilising Experience Replay for Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

ICML 2017poster

Many real-world problems, such as network packet routing and urban traffic control, are naturally modeled as multi-agent reinforcement learning (RL) problems. However, existing multi-agent RL methods typically scale poorly in the problem size. Therefore, a key challenge is to translate the success o…

Cited by 819SourcePDFScholar