Unlocking Exocentric Video-Language Data for Egocentric Video Representation Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03567v1
• Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2024 06:10:45 GMT
• Title: Unlocking Exocentric Video-Language Data for Egocentric Video Representation Learning
• Authors: Zi-Yi Dou, Xitong Yang, Tushar Nagarajan, Huiyu Wang, Jing Huang, Nanyun Peng, Kris Kitani, Fu-Jen Chu,
• Abstract summary: We present EMBED, a method designed to transform exocentric video-language data for egocentric video representation learning. Egocentric videos predominantly feature close-up hand-object interactions, whereas exocentric videos offer a broader perspective on human activities. By applying both vision and language style transfer, our framework creates a new egocentric dataset.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We present EMBED (Egocentric Models Built with Exocentric Data), a method designed to transform exocentric video-language data for egocentric video representation learning. Large-scale exocentric data covers diverse activities with significant potential for egocentric learning, but inherent disparities between egocentric and exocentric data pose challenges in utilizing one view for the other seamlessly. Egocentric videos predominantly feature close-up hand-object interactions, whereas exocentric videos offer a broader perspective on human activities. Additionally, narratives in egocentric datasets are typically more action-centric and closely linked with the visual content, in contrast to the narrative styles found in exocentric datasets. To address these challenges, we employ a data transformation framework to adapt exocentric data for egocentric training, focusing on identifying specific video clips that emphasize hand-object interactions and transforming narration styles to align with egocentric perspectives. By applying both vision and language style transfer, our framework creates a new egocentric dataset derived from exocentric video-language data. Through extensive evaluations, we demonstrate the effectiveness of EMBED, achieving state-of-the-art results across various egocentric downstream tasks, including an absolute improvement of 4.7% on the Epic-Kitchens-100 multi-instance retrieval and 6.2% on the EGTEA classification benchmarks in zero-shot settings. Furthermore, EMBED enables egocentric video-language models to perform competitively in exocentric tasks. Finally, we showcase EMBED's application across various exocentric datasets, exhibiting strong generalization capabilities when applied to different exocentric datasets.

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