Learning Cross-View Object Correspondence via Cycle-Consistent Mask Prediction
This addresses the challenge of object correspondence in multi-view video analysis, which is incremental as it builds on existing segmentation and consistency methods.
The paper tackles the problem of establishing object-level visual correspondence across different viewpoints in videos, such as egocentric-to-exocentric scenarios, by proposing a framework with a cycle-consistency training objective and test-time training, achieving state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks like Ego-Exo4D and HANDAL-X.
We study the task of establishing object-level visual correspondence across different viewpoints in videos, focusing on the challenging egocentric-to-exocentric and exocentric-to-egocentric scenarios. We propose a simple yet effective framework based on conditional binary segmentation, where an object query mask is encoded into a latent representation to guide the localization of the corresponding object in a target video. To encourage robust, view-invariant representations, we introduce a cycle-consistency training objective: the predicted mask in the target view is projected back to the source view to reconstruct the original query mask. This bidirectional constraint provides a strong self-supervisory signal without requiring ground-truth annotations and enables test-time training (TTT) at inference. Experiments on the Ego-Exo4D and HANDAL-X benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of our optimization objective and TTT strategy, achieving state-of-the-art performance. The code is available at https://github.com/shannany0606/CCMP.