Which Viewpoint Shows it Best? Language for Weakly Supervising View Selection in Multi-view Instructional Videos

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Main Authors: Majumder, Sagnik, Nagarajan, Tushar, Al-Halah, Ziad, Pradhan, Reina, Grauman, Kristen
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author Majumder, Sagnik
Nagarajan, Tushar
Al-Halah, Ziad
Pradhan, Reina
Grauman, Kristen
author_facet Majumder, Sagnik
Nagarajan, Tushar
Al-Halah, Ziad
Pradhan, Reina
Grauman, Kristen
contents Given a multi-view video, which viewpoint is most informative for a human observer? Existing methods rely on heuristics or expensive "best-view" supervision to answer this question, limiting their applicability. We propose a weakly supervised approach that leverages language accompanying an instructional multi-view video as a means to recover its most informative viewpoint(s). Our key hypothesis is that the more accurately an individual view can predict a view-agnostic text summary, the more informative it is. To put this into action, we propose LangView, a framework that uses the relative accuracy of view-dependent caption predictions as a proxy for best view pseudo-labels. Then, those pseudo-labels are used to train a view selector, together with an auxiliary camera pose predictor that enhances view-sensitivity. During inference, our model takes as input only a multi-view video--no language or camera poses--and returns the best viewpoint to watch at each timestep. On two challenging datasets comprised of diverse multi-camera setups and how-to activities, our model consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, both with quantitative metrics and human evaluation. Project page: https://vision.cs.utexas.edu/projects/which-view-shows-it-best.
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spellingShingle Which Viewpoint Shows it Best? Language for Weakly Supervising View Selection in Multi-view Instructional Videos
Majumder, Sagnik
Nagarajan, Tushar
Al-Halah, Ziad
Pradhan, Reina
Grauman, Kristen
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Given a multi-view video, which viewpoint is most informative for a human observer? Existing methods rely on heuristics or expensive "best-view" supervision to answer this question, limiting their applicability. We propose a weakly supervised approach that leverages language accompanying an instructional multi-view video as a means to recover its most informative viewpoint(s). Our key hypothesis is that the more accurately an individual view can predict a view-agnostic text summary, the more informative it is. To put this into action, we propose LangView, a framework that uses the relative accuracy of view-dependent caption predictions as a proxy for best view pseudo-labels. Then, those pseudo-labels are used to train a view selector, together with an auxiliary camera pose predictor that enhances view-sensitivity. During inference, our model takes as input only a multi-view video--no language or camera poses--and returns the best viewpoint to watch at each timestep. On two challenging datasets comprised of diverse multi-camera setups and how-to activities, our model consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, both with quantitative metrics and human evaluation. Project page: https://vision.cs.utexas.edu/projects/which-view-shows-it-best.
title Which Viewpoint Shows it Best? Language for Weakly Supervising View Selection in Multi-view Instructional Videos
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.08753