Summary of Don’t Judge by the Look: Towards Motion Coherent Video Representation, By Yitian Zhang et al.
Don’t Judge by the Look: Towards Motion Coherent Video Representation
by Yitian Zhang, Yue Bai, Huan Wang, Yizhou Wang, Yun Fu
First submitted to arxiv on: 14 Mar 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 This paper addresses the limitation of current object recognition training pipelines by introducing a novel data augmentation method, Motion Coherent Augmentation (MCA), which prioritizes motion patterns over static appearances. MCA is designed to efficiently modify video samples while resolving distribution shifts through Variation Alignment (VA). The authors propose two key operations: SwapMix and VA. They demonstrate the effectiveness of MCA across various architectures and datasets, showcasing its generalization ability. This work has implications for video understanding tasks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper makes a big discovery about how to make computer vision models better at understanding videos! Right now, these models are trained on still images, but they struggle when dealing with moving objects or people. The researchers found that by introducing some randomness into the images, they can help the models focus more on the motion and less on the appearance of objects. They developed a new way to do this called Motion Coherent Augmentation (MCA), which makes the models more robust and accurate. This could have many practical applications, such as better self-driving cars or more advanced surveillance systems. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Alignment * Data augmentation * Generalization
