Summary of 3d-aware Instance Segmentation and Tracking in Egocentric Videos, by Yash Bhalgat et al.
3D-Aware Instance Segmentation and Tracking in Egocentric Videos
by Yash Bhalgat, Vadim Tschernezki, Iro Laina, João F. Henriques, Andrea Vedaldi, Andrew Zisserman
First submitted to arxiv on: 19 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces a novel approach for instance segmentation and tracking in first-person videos that leverages 3D awareness to overcome challenges posed by camera motion, occlusions, and limited visibility. The method integrates scene geometry, 3D object centroid tracking, and instance segmentation to analyze dynamic egocentric scenes. Compared to state-of-the-art 2D approaches, it achieves superior performance by incorporating spatial and temporal cues. Evaluations on the EPIC Fields dataset demonstrate significant improvements in consistency metrics such as Association Accuracy (AssA) and IDF1 score, with a notable reduction in ID switches across various object categories. The paper also showcases downstream applications in 3D object reconstruction and amodal video object segmentation. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Egocentric videos are special because they show the world from your own perspective, but it’s hard to understand what’s happening because of all the motion and things getting hidden. This paper helps solve this problem by creating a new way to track objects in these types of videos. It uses 3D information to make sure the tracking is accurate, which makes it better than other methods that only look at the video frame by frame. The results are impressive, with big improvements in how well the method can follow objects and figure out what’s happening in the scene. This technology has real-world applications, like being able to automatically reconstruct 3D models of scenes or track objects through videos. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Instance segmentation » Tracking
