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CAREER: Learning to See, Reason, and Act: Language-Grounded Video Intelligence for Percept — NSF Award to University of North Caro

Modern artificial intelligence (AI) systems can recognize simple actions in short video clips, yet they cannot understand the full complexity of events unfolding over time. They struggle to follow multi-step activities, explain why something happened, imagine what would happen under different circumstances, or use what

Award titleCAREER: Learning to See, Reason, and Act: Language-Grounded Video Intelligence for Percept
Award ID2541848
AwardeeUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CityCHAPEL HILL
StateNC
Amount obligated$343,839
Principal investigatorGediminas Bertasius
ProgramRobust Intelligence
Start date08/01/2026
AbstractModern artificial intelligence (AI) systems can recognize simple actions in short video clips, yet they cannot understand the full complexity of events unfolding over time. They struggle to follow multi-step activities, explain why something happened, imagine what would happen under different circumstances, or use what they observe to guide physical actions. These limitations prevent AI from having a transformative impact in areas of national importance such as robotics, healthcare, and manufact
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