Grounded Human-Object Interaction Hotspots from Video

Abstract

Learning how to interact with objects is an important step towards embodied visual intelligence, but existing techniques suffer from heavy supervision or sensing requirements. We propose an approach to learn human-object interaction "hotspots" directly from video. Rather than treat affordances as a manually supervised semantic segmentation task, our approach learns about interactions by watching videos of real human behavior and anticipating afforded actions. Given a novel image or video, our model infers a spatial hotspot map indicating where an object would be manipulated in a potential interaction even if the object is currently at rest. Through results with both first and third person video, we show the value of grounding affordances in real human-object interactions. Not only are our weakly supervised hotspots competitive with strongly supervised affordance methods, but they can also anticipate object interaction for novel object categories. Project page: http://vision.cs.utexas.edu/projects/interaction-hotspots/

Cite

Text

Nagarajan et al. "Grounded Human-Object Interaction Hotspots from Video." Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 2019. doi:10.1109/ICCV.2019.00878

Markdown

[Nagarajan et al. "Grounded Human-Object Interaction Hotspots from Video." Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 2019.](https://mlanthology.org/iccv/2019/nagarajan2019iccv-grounded/) doi:10.1109/ICCV.2019.00878

BibTeX

@inproceedings{nagarajan2019iccv-grounded,
  title     = {{Grounded Human-Object Interaction Hotspots from Video}},
  author    = {Nagarajan, Tushar and Feichtenhofer, Christoph and Grauman, Kristen},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision},
  year      = {2019},
  doi       = {10.1109/ICCV.2019.00878},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/iccv/2019/nagarajan2019iccv-grounded/}
}