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Title: Learning Object-Centric Dynamic Modes from Video and Emerging Properties
One of the long-term objectives of Machine Learning is to endow machines with the capacity of structuring and interpreting the world as we do. This is particularly challenging in scenes involving time series, such as video sequences, since seemingly different data can correspond to the same underlying dynamics. Recent approaches seek to decompose video sequences into their composing objects, attributes and dynamics in a self-supervised fashion, thus simplifying the task of learning suitable features that can be used to analyze each component. While existing methods can successfully disentangle dynamics from other components, there have been relatively few efforts in learning parsimonious representations of these underlying dynamics. In this paper, motivated by recent advances in non-linear identification, we propose a method to decompose a video into moving objects, their attributes and the dynamic modes of their trajectories. We model video dynamics as the output of a Koopman operator to be learned from the available data. In this context, the dynamic information contained in the scene is encapsulated in the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the Koopman operator, providing an interpretable and parsimonious representation. We show that such decomposition can be used for instance to perform video analytics, predict future frames or generate synthetic video. We test our framework in a variety of datasets that encompass different dynamic scenarios, while illustrating the novel features that emerge from our dynamic modes decomposition: Video dynamics interpretation and user manipulation at test-time. We successfully forecast challenging object trajectories from pixels, achieving competitive performance while drawing useful insights.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2038493 1814631
NSF-PAR ID:
10466350
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Editor(s):
Matni, N; Morari, M; Pappas, G.J.
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Proceedings of Machine Learning Research
Volume:
211
ISSN:
2640-3498
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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