Feature based visual odometry and SLAM methods require accurate and fast correspondence matching between consecutive image frames for precise camera pose estimation in real-time. Current feature matching pipelines either rely solely on the descriptive capabilities of the feature extractor or need computationally complex optimization schemes. We present the lightweight pipeline DynaMiTe, which is agnostic to the descriptor input and leverages spatial-temporal cues with efficient statistical measures. The theoretical backbone of the method lies within a probabilistic formulation of feature matching and the respective study of physically motivated constraints. A dynamically adaptable local motion model encapsulates groups of features in an efficient data structure. Temporal constraints transfer information of the local motion model across time, thus additionally reducing the search space complexity for matching. DynaMiTe achieves superior results both in terms of matching accuracy and camera pose estimation with high frame rates, outperforming state-of-the-art matching methods while being computationally more efficient.
Czech Technical University in Prague（捷克布拉格技术大学）；NAVER LABS Europe（NAVER欧洲实验室）
Few-shot action recognition, i.e. recognizing new action classes given only a few examples, benefits from incorporating temporal information. Prior work either encodes such information in the representation itself and learns classifiers at test time, or obtains frame-level features and performs pairwise temporal matching. We first evaluate a number of matching-based approaches using features from spatio-temporal backbones, a comparison missing from the literature, and show that the gap in performance between simple baselines and more complicated methods is significantly reduced. Inspired by th…
Huazhong University of Science and Technology（华中科技大学）
Similarity matching is a core operation in Siamese trackers. Most Siamese trackers carry out similarity learning via cross correlation that originates from the image matching field. However, unlike 2-D image matching, the matching network in object tracking requires 4-D information (height, width, channel and time). Cross correlation neglects the information from channel and time dimensions, and thus produces ambiguous matching. This paper proposes a spatio-temporal matching process to thoroughly explore the capability of 4-D matching in space (height, width and channel) and time. In spatial m…
Temporal action proposal generation is an challenging and promising task which aims to locate temporal regions in real-world videos where action or event may occur. Current bottom-up proposal generation methods can generate proposals with precise boundary, but cannot efficiently generate adequately reliable confidence scores for retrieving proposals. To address these difficulties, we introduce the Boundary-Matching (BM) mechanism to evaluate confidence scores of densely distributed proposals, which denote a proposal as a matching pair of starting and ending boundaries and combine all densely d…
Historically, researchers in the field have spent a great deal of effort to create image representations that have scale invariance and retain spatial location information. This paper proposes to encode equivalent temporal characteristics in video representations for action recognition. To achieve temporal scale invariance, we develop a method called temporal scale pyramid (TSP). To encode temporal information, we present and compare two methods called temporal extension descriptor (TED) and temporal division pyramid (TDP) . Our purpose is to suggest solutions for matching complex actions that…
Alibaba Group（阿里巴巴集团）；Twitter（推特）；Huazhong University of Science and Technology（华中科技大学）
Recent attempts mainly focus on learning deep representations for each video individually under the episodic meta-learning regime and then performing temporal alignment to match query and support videos. However, they still suffer from two drawbacks: (i) learning individual features without considering the entire task may result in limited representation capability, and (ii) existing alignment strategies are sensitive to noises and misaligned instances. To handle the two limitations, we propose a novel Hybrid Relation guided temporal Set Matching (HyRSM++) approach for few-shot action recognit…
DropMAE: Learning Representations via Masked Autoencoders with Spatial-Attention Dropout for Temporal Matching Tasks
City University of Hong Kong（香港城市大学）；Alibaba DAMO Academy（阿里巴巴达摩院）；Queen Mary University of London（伦敦玛丽女王大学）；The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen（香港中文大学（深圳））
State Key Lab for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University（南京大学计算机软件新技术国家重点实验室）
Temporal action detection aims to locate the boundaries of action in the video. The current method based on boundary matching enumerates and calculates all possible boundary matchings to generate proposals. However, these methods neglect the long-range context aggregation in boundary prediction. At the same time, due to the similar semantics of adjacent matchings, local semantic aggregation of densely-generated matchings cannot improve semantic richness and discrimination. In this paper, we propose the end-to-end proposal generation method named Dual Context Aggregation Network (DCAN) to aggre…
Seoul National University（首尔大学）；Facebook, Inc.（Facebook公司）
Semi-supervised video object segmentation (semi-VOS) is widely used in many applications. This task is tracking class-agnostic objects from a given target mask. For doing this, various approaches have been developed based on online-learning, memory networks, and optical flow. These methods show high accuracy but are hard to be utilized in real-world applications due to slow inference time and tremendous complexity. To resolve this problem, template matching methods are devised for fast processing speed but sacrificing lots of performance in previous models. We introduce a novel semi-VOS model …
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology（光州科学技术院）
In this paper, we propose the methods to handle temporal errors during multi-object tracking. Temporal error occurs when objects are occluded or noisy detections appear near the object. In those situations, tracking may fail and various errors like drift or ID-switching occur. It is hard to overcome temporal errors only by using motion and shape information. So, we propose the historical appearance matching method and joint-input siamese network which was trained by 2-step process. It can prevent tracking failures although objects are temporally occluded or last matching information is unrelia…
Temporal Flow Matching for Learning Spatio-Temporal Trajectories in 4D Longitudinal Medical Imaging
Division of Medical Image Computing, German Cancer Research Center（德国癌症研究中心医学影像计算部）；HIDSS4Health - Helmholtz Information and Data Science School for Health（HIDSS4Health-海德堡信息与数据科学健康学校）；Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Heidelberg（海德堡大学数学与计算机科学学院）；Pattern Analysis and Learning Group, Department of Radiation Oncology Heidelberg University Hospital（海德堡大学医院放射肿瘤科模式分析与学习组）；Medical Faculty Heidelberg, University of Heidelberg（海德堡大学医学学院）；Pattern Analysis and Learning Group, Department of Radiation Oncology, Heidelberg University Hospital（海德堡大学医院放射肿瘤科模式分析与学习组）
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology（香港科技大学）；Tencent（腾讯）
Significant progress has been made in Video Object Segmentation (VOS), the video object tracking task in its finest level. While the VOS task can be naturally decoupled into image semantic segmentation and video object tracking, significantly much more research effort has been made in segmentation than tracking. In this paper, we introduce "tracking-by-detection" into VOS which can coherently integrate segmentation into tracking, by proposing a new temporal aggregation network and a novel dynamic time-evolving template matching mechanism to achieve significantly improved performance. Notably, …
We address the problem of generating video features for action recognition. The spatial pyramid and its variants have been very popular feature models due to their success in balancing spatial location encoding and spatial invariance. Although it seems straightforward to extend spatial pyramid to the temporal domain (spatio-temporal pyramid), the large spatio-temporal diversity of unconstrained videos and the resulting significantly higher dimensional representations make it less appealing. This paper introduces the space-time extended descriptor, a simple but efficient alternative way to incl…
Cross Spatial Temporal Fusion Attention for Remote Sensing Object Detection via Image Feature Matching
College of Computer Science and Technology（计算机科学与技术学院）；Jilin University（吉林大学）；College of Data Science（数据科学学院）；Taiyuan University of Technology（太原理工大学）；Department of Computer Science（计算机科学系）
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence（穆罕默德·本·扎耶德人工智能大学）；Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IIAI)（启程人工智能研究院）
For person re-identification, existing deep networks often focus on representation learning. However, without transfer learning, the learned model is fixed as is, which is not adaptable for handling various unseen scenarios. In this paper, beyond representation learning, we consider how to formulate person image matching directly in deep feature maps. We treat image matching as finding local correspondences in feature maps, and construct query-adaptive convolution kernels on the fly to achieve local matching. In this way, the matching process and results are interpretable, and this explicit ma…
We identify a novel instance of the background subtraction problem that focuses on extracting near-field foreground objects captured using handheld cameras. Given two user-generated videos of a scene, one with and the other without the foreground object(s), our goal is to efficiently generate an output video with only the foreground object(s) present in it. We cast this challenge as a spatio-temporal frame matching problem, and propose an efficient solution for it that exploits the temporal smoothness of the video sequences. We present theoretical analyses for the error bounds of our approach,…
IBM Research Dublin, Ireland（爱尔兰都柏林IBM研究）；Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering University of Ioannina, Greece（希腊约阿尼纳大学计算机科学与工程系）
The primary objective of graph pattern matching is to find all appearances of an input graph pattern query in a large data graph. Such appearances are called matches. In this paper, we are interested in finding matches of interaction patterns in temporal graphs. To this end, we propose a hybrid approach that achieves effective filtering of potential matches based both on structure and time. Our approach exploits a graph representation where edges are ordered by time. We present experiments with real datasets that illustrate the efficiency of our approach.
National Chiao Tung University（国立交通大学）；NEC Laboratories America（NEC美国实验室）
Stereo matching and flow estimation are two essential tasks for scene understanding, spatially in 3D and temporally in motion. Existing approaches have been focused on the unsupervised setting due to the limited resource to obtain the large-scale ground truth data. To construct a self-learnable objective, co-related tasks are often linked together to form a joint framework. However, the prior work usually utilizes independent networks for each task, thus not allowing to learn shared feature representations across models. In this paper, we propose a single and principled network to jointly lear…
Leveraging Consistent Spatio-Temporal Correspondence for Robust Visual Odometry
School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology（华中科技大学电子信息与通信学院）；Hubei Key Laboratory of Smart Internet, Huazhong University of Science and Technology（华中科技大学智慧互联网湖北省重点实验室）
Sun Yat-Sen University（中山大学）；Beihang University（北京航空航天大学）
In order to track the moving objects in long range against occlusion, interruption, and background clutter, this paper proposes a unified approach for global trajectory analysis. Instead of the traditional frame-by-frame tracking, our method recovers target trajectories based on a short sequence of video frames, e.g. $15$ frames. We initially calculate a foreground map at each frame, as obtained from a state-of-the-art background model. An attribute graph is then extracted from the foreground map, where the graph vertices are image primitives represented by the composite features. With this gr…
ViBA: Implicit Bundle Adjustment with Geometric and Temporal Consistency for Robust Visual Matching
GNSS Research Center, Wuhan University（武汉大学卫星导航定位技术研究中心）；Electronic Information School, Wuhan University（武汉大学电子信息学院）；Hubei Technology Innovation Center for Spatiotemporal Information and Positioning Navigation（湖北省时空信息与定位导航技术创新中心）；Hubei Luojia Laboratory（湖北珞珈实验室）
MotionHiFlow: Text-to-motion via hierarchical flow matching
Sun Yat-sen University（中山大学）；Shandong University（山东大学）；Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Information Security Technology（广东省信息安全技术重点实验室）；Key Laboratory of Machine Intelligence and Advanced Computing, Ministry of Education, China（教育部机器智能与先进计算重点实验室）
Yazd University（亚兹德大学）；Sharif University of Technology（谢里夫理工大学）
With the fast growth of communication networks, the video data transmission from these networks is extremely vulnerable. Error concealment is a technique to estimate the damaged data by employing the correctly received data at the decoder. In this paper, an efficient boundary matching algorithm for estimating damaged motion vectors (MVs) is proposed. The proposed algorithm performs error concealment for each damaged macro block (MB) according to the list of identified priority of each frame. It then uses a classic boundary matching criterion or the proposed boundary matching criterion adaptive…
Microsoft AI for Good Research Lab（微软人工智能造福社会研究实验室）；Stanford RegLab（斯坦福监管实验室）
Longitudinal studies are vital to understanding dynamic changes of the planet, but labels (e.g., buildings, facilities, roads) are often available only for a single point in time. We propose a general model, Temporal Cluster Matching (TCM), for detecting building changes in time series of remotely sensed imagery when footprint labels are observed only once. The intuition behind the model is that the relationship between spectral values inside and outside of building's footprint will change when a building is constructed (or demolished). For instance, in rural settings, the pre-construction are…
Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute（清华-伯克利深圳学院）；Tsinghua University（清华大学）；Tencent AI Lab（腾讯人工智能实验室）
Temporal sentence grounding in videos aims to detect and localize one target video segment, which semantically corresponds to a given sentence. Existing methods mainly tackle this task via matching and aligning semantics between a sentence and candidate video segments, while neglect the fact that the sentence information plays an important role in temporally correlating and composing the described contents in videos. In this paper, we propose a novel semantic conditioned dynamic modulation (SCDM) mechanism, which relies on the sentence semantics to modulate the temporal convolution operations …
Space Object Detection using Multi-frame Temporal Trajectory Completion Method
School of Software Northwestern Polytechnical University Xi'an, China（软件学院 西安电子科技大学）；National Key Laboratory of Space Target Awareness Space Engineering University Beijing, China（空间目标意识国家级实验室 空间工程大学）
Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen（哈尔滨工业大学（深圳））；Kunming University of Science and Technology（昆明理工大学）；The Chinese University of HongKong, Shenzhen（香港中文大学（深圳））
Thanks for the cross-modal retrieval techniques, visible-infrared (RGB-IR) person re-identification (Re-ID) is achieved by projecting them into a common space, allowing person Re-ID in 24-hour surveillance systems. However, with respect to the probe-to-gallery, almost all existing RGB-IR based cross-modal person Re-ID methods focus on image-to-image matching, while the video-to-video matching which contains much richer spatial- and temporal-information remains under-explored. In this paper, we primarily study the video-based cross-modal person Re-ID method. To achieve this task, a video-based …
University of Surrey（萨里大学）；Adobe Research（奥多比研究院）；University of California, San Diego（加州大学圣地亚哥分校）
We propose VADER, a spatio-temporal matching, alignment, and change summarization method to help fight misinformation spread via manipulated videos. VADER matches and coarsely aligns partial video fragments to candidate videos using a robust visual descriptor and scalable search over adaptively chunked video content. A transformer-based alignment module then refines the temporal localization of the query fragment within the matched video. A space-time comparator module identifies regions of manipulation between aligned content, invariant to any changes due to any residual temporal misalignment…
MOST: Motion Diffusion Model for Rare Text via Temporal Clip Banzhaf Interaction
State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems, Beihang University（虚拟现实技术与系统国家重点实验室，北京航空航天大学）；Department of Computer Science, University of Durham（计算机科学系，达勒姆大学）
We propose in this paper an architecture for near-duplicate video detection based on: (i) index and query signature based structures integrating temporal and perceptual visual features and (ii) a matching framework computing the logical inference between index and query documents. As far as indexing is concerned, instead of concatenating low-level visual features in high-dimensional spaces which results in curse of dimensionality and redundancy issues, we adopt a perceptual symbolic representation based on color and texture concepts. For matching, we propose to instantiate a retrieval model ba…
