Proposal With Alignment: A Bi-Directional Transformer for 360° Video Viewport Proposal
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Abstract
People normally watch 360 ° videos through a head-mounted display, inside which only the content of viewports can be seen. Therefore, viewport proposal, referring to detecting potential viewport candidates, plays an important role in many 360 ° video processing tasks. In this paper, we advance the viewport proposal by further aligning the predicted viewports across frames for individual subject. This provides a better methodology and a deeper perspective to learn the human perceptual behaviours on 360 ° videos. Specifically, we first analyze three 360 ° video datasets and obtain several findings on human consistency, objectness and motion of viewports. Inspired by these findings, we propose a bi-directional transformer approach, named BiT, for 360 ° video viewport proposal and alignment. Specifically, BiT is composed of a multi-level residual module, a bi-directional encoder-decoder module and a spherical matching module. This way, the viewports can be well proposed and aligned via considering multi-level, bi-directional and non-local information. Moreover, the aligned viewports by BiT are used to refine the viewports and improve viewport proposal accuracy in return. Finally, we validate that our BiT approach is superior on viewport proposal, compared with the state-of-the-art approaches. Besides, the aligned viewports from BiT is verified to be effective in multiple applications, such as saliency prediction, trajectory prediction and perceptual video compression.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it