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Learning Space-Time Semantic Correspondences

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2023-06-21 v1

Abstract

We propose a new task of space-time semantic correspondence prediction in videos. Given a source video, a target video, and a set of space-time key-points in the source video, the task requires predicting a set of keypoints in the target video that are the semantic correspondences of the provided source keypoints. We believe that this task is important for fine-grain video understanding, potentially enabling applications such as activity coaching, sports analysis, robot imitation learning, and more. Our contributions in this paper are: (i) proposing a new task and providing annotations for space-time semantic correspondences on two existing benchmarks: Penn Action and Pouring; and (ii) presenting a comprehensive set of baselines and experiments to gain insights about the new problem. Our main finding is that the space-time semantic correspondence prediction problem is best approached jointly in space and time rather than in their decomposed sub-problems: time alignment and spatial correspondences.

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@article{arxiv.2306.10208,
  title  = {Learning Space-Time Semantic Correspondences},
  author = {Du Tran and Jitendra Malik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.10208},
  year   = {2023}
}
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