Unsupervised Open-Vocabulary Object Localization in Videos

Ke Fan, Zechen Bai, Tianjun Xiao, Dominik Zietlow, Max Horn, Zixu Zhao, Carl-Johann Simon-Gabriel, Mike Zheng Shou, Francesco Locatello, Bernt Schiele, Thomas Brox, Zheng Zhang, Yanwei Fu, Tong He; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023, pp. 13747-13755

Abstract


In this paper, we show that recent advances in video representation learning and pre-trained vision-language models allow for substantial improvements in self-supervised video object localization. We propose a method that first localizes objects in videos via a slot attention approach and then assigns text to the obtained slots. The latter is achieved by an unsupervised way to read localized semantic information from the pre-trained CLIP model. The resulting video object localization is entirely unsupervised apart from the implicit annotation contained in CLIP, and it is effectively the first unsupervised approach that yields good results on regular video benchmarks.

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[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Fan_2023_ICCV, author = {Fan, Ke and Bai, Zechen and Xiao, Tianjun and Zietlow, Dominik and Horn, Max and Zhao, Zixu and Simon-Gabriel, Carl-Johann and Shou, Mike Zheng and Locatello, Francesco and Schiele, Bernt and Brox, Thomas and Zhang, Zheng and Fu, Yanwei and He, Tong}, title = {Unsupervised Open-Vocabulary Object Localization in Videos}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)}, month = {October}, year = {2023}, pages = {13747-13755} }