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Space-Time Correspondence as a Contrastive Random Walk
Allan Jabri · Andrew Owens · Alexei Efros

Tue Dec 08 06:00 PM -- 06:15 PM (PST) @ Orals & Spotlights: Vision Applications
in Orals & Spotlights Track 12: Vision Applications »

This paper proposes a simple self-supervised approach for learning a representation for visual correspondence from raw video. We cast correspondence as prediction of links in a space-time graph constructed from video. In this graph, the nodes are patches sampled from each frame, and nodes adjacent in time can share a directed edge. We learn a representation in which pairwise similarity defines transition probability of a random walk, such that prediction of long-range correspondence is computed as a walk along the graph. We optimize the representation to place high probability along paths of similarity. Targets for learning are formed without supervision, by cycle-consistency: the objective is to maximize the likelihood of returning to the initial node when walking along a graph constructed from a palindrome of frames. Thus, a single path-level constraint implicitly supervises chains of intermediate comparisons. When used as a similarity metric without adaptation, the learned representation outperforms the self-supervised state-of-the-art on label propagation tasks involving objects, semantic parts, and pose. Moreover, we demonstrate that a technique we call edge dropout, as well as self-supervised adaptation at test-time, further improve transfer for object-centric correspondence.

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Allan Jabri (UC Berkeley)
Andrew Owens (UC Berkeley)
Alexei Efros (UC Berkeley)

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