Learning segmentation from point trajectories

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Karazija, Laurynas, Laina, Iro, Rupprecht, Christian, Vedaldi, Andrea
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866916575697698816
author Karazija, Laurynas
Laina, Iro
Rupprecht, Christian
Vedaldi, Andrea
author_facet Karazija, Laurynas
Laina, Iro
Rupprecht, Christian
Vedaldi, Andrea
contents We consider the problem of segmenting objects in videos based on their motion and no other forms of supervision. Prior work has often approached this problem by using the principle of common fate, namely the fact that the motion of points that belong to the same object is strongly correlated. However, most authors have only considered instantaneous motion from optical flow. In this work, we present a way to train a segmentation network using long-term point trajectories as a supervisory signal to complement optical flow. The key difficulty is that long-term motion, unlike instantaneous motion, is difficult to model -- any parametric approximation is unlikely to capture complex motion patterns over long periods of time. We instead draw inspiration from subspace clustering approaches, proposing a loss function that seeks to group the trajectories into low-rank matrices where the motion of object points can be approximately explained as a linear combination of other point tracks. Our method outperforms the prior art on motion-based segmentation, which shows the utility of long-term motion and the effectiveness of our formulation.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2501_12392
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Learning segmentation from point trajectories
Karazija, Laurynas
Laina, Iro
Rupprecht, Christian
Vedaldi, Andrea
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
We consider the problem of segmenting objects in videos based on their motion and no other forms of supervision. Prior work has often approached this problem by using the principle of common fate, namely the fact that the motion of points that belong to the same object is strongly correlated. However, most authors have only considered instantaneous motion from optical flow. In this work, we present a way to train a segmentation network using long-term point trajectories as a supervisory signal to complement optical flow. The key difficulty is that long-term motion, unlike instantaneous motion, is difficult to model -- any parametric approximation is unlikely to capture complex motion patterns over long periods of time. We instead draw inspiration from subspace clustering approaches, proposing a loss function that seeks to group the trajectories into low-rank matrices where the motion of object points can be approximately explained as a linear combination of other point tracks. Our method outperforms the prior art on motion-based segmentation, which shows the utility of long-term motion and the effectiveness of our formulation.
title Learning segmentation from point trajectories
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12392