ViewNet: Unsupervised Viewpoint Estimation from Conditional Generation

Octave Mariotti, Oisin Mac Aodha, Hakan Bilen

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Abstract

Understanding the 3D world without supervision is currently a major challenge in computer vision as the annotations required to supervise deep networks for tasks in this domain are expensive to obtain on a large scale. In this paper, we address the problem of unsupervised viewpoint estimation. We formulate this as a self-supervised learning task, where image reconstruction provides the supervision needed to predict the camera viewpoint. Specifically, we make use of pairs of images of the same object at training time, from unknown viewpoints, to self-supervise training by combining the viewpoint information from one image with the appearance information from the other. We demonstrate that using a perspective spatial transformer allows efficient viewpoint learning, outperforming existing unsupervised approaches on synthetic data, and obtains competitive results on the challenging PASCAL3D+ dataset.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision ICCV 2021
PublisherIEEE
Pages10398-10408
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-6654-2812-5
ISBN (Print)978-1-6654-2813-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 28 Feb 2022
EventInternational Conference on Computer Vision 2021 - Online
Duration: 11 Oct 202117 Oct 2021
https://iccv2021.thecvf.com/home

Publication series

Name2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
PublisherIEEE
ISSN (Print)1550-5499
ISSN (Electronic)2380-7504

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Computer Vision 2021
Abbreviated titleICCV 2021
Period11/10/2117/10/21
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