Seeing Fast and Slow: Learning the Flow of Time in Videos

Seeing Fast and Slow: Learning the Flow of Time in Videos Time is everywhere in video — yet most computer vision models treat it as an afterthought. We compress temporal information into feature vectors, shuffle frames during training, and generally act like order doesn't matter. A new paper from researchers at the University of Washington and Google challenges that assumption head-on, treating time itself as a learnable visual concept. Key Idea The core insight is deceptively simple: if you can