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An information-theoretic approach to unsupervised keypoint representation learning

2022-09-30 12:03:52
Ali Younes, Simone Schaub-Meyer, Georgia Chalvatzaki

Abstract

Extracting informative representations from videos is fundamental for the effective learning of various downstream tasks. Inspired by classical works on saliency, we present a novel information-theoretic approach to discover meaningful representations from videos in an unsupervised fashion. We argue that local entropy of pixel neighborhoods and its evolution in a video stream is a valuable intrinsic supervisory signal for learning to attend to salient features. We, thus, abstract visual features into a concise representation of keypoints that serve as dynamic information transporters. We discover in an unsupervised fashion spatio-temporally consistent keypoint representations that carry the prominent information across video frames, thanks to two original information-theoretic losses. First, a loss that maximizes the information covered by the keypoints in a frame. Second, a loss that encourages optimized keypoint transportation over time, thus, imposing consistency of the information flow. We evaluate our keypoint-based representation compared to state-of-the-art baselines in different downstream tasks such as learning object dynamics. To evaluate the expressivity and consistency of the keypoints, we propose a new set of metrics. Our empirical results showcase the superior performance of our information-driven keypoints that resolve challenges like attendance to both static and dynamic objects, and to objects abruptly entering and leaving the scene.

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.15404

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.15404.pdf


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