Abstract
This paper proposes to learn reliable dense correspondence from videos in a self-supervised manner. Our learning process integrates two highly related tasks: tracking large image regions and establishing fine-grained pixel-level associations between consecutive video frames. We exploit the synergy between both tasks through a shared inter-frame affinity matrix, which simultaneously models transitions between video frames at both the region- and pixel-levels. While region-level localization helps reduce ambiguities in fine-grained matching by narrowing down search regions; fine-grained matching provides bottom-up features to facilitate region-level localization. Our method outperforms the state-of-the-art self-supervised methods on a variety of visual correspondence tasks, including video-object and part-segmentation propagation, keypoint tracking, and object tracking. Our self-supervised method even surpasses the fully-supervised affinity feature representation obtained from a ResNet-18 pre-trained on the ImageNet. The project website can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/uvc2019/.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems |
Volume | 32 |
Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Event | 33rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2019 - Vancouver, Canada Duration: 2019 Dec 8 → 2019 Dec 14 |
Bibliographical note
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All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Information Systems
- Signal Processing