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PRISM addresses a critical bottleneck in cross-view video learning by disentangling viewpoint-invariant action semantics from view-variant appearance changes through latent decomposition and language supervision. By enabling the recomposition of these independent feature streams, the method achieves state-of-the-art zero-shot performance on major benchmarks like EgoExo4D, demonstrating that clean semantic separation is achievable even when existing unified embedding approaches fail. This advancement offers a robust framework for building more generalizable video understanding models that can seamlessly bridge egocentric and exocentric perspectives.
PRISM: Predictive Recomposition via Semantic Latent Decomposition for View-invariant Video Representation Learning
arXiv:2608.30388v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cross-view video representation learning aims to capture viewpoint-invariant action semantics despite substantial appearance changes across egocentric and exocentric videos. However, existing methods encode each video as a unified embedding, where view-invariant and view-variant semantics inevitably entangle under co-occurrences - a failure mode we show persists even in cross-view methods explicitly trained for view-invariance. Our key insight is that a view-invariant feature is truly disentangled when it can be sufficiently recomposed with an arbitrary view-variant feature while preserving their independent semantics. Building on this, we propose PRISM, that decomposes video into view-invariant and view-variant latents and recompose them under language supervision encouraging clean decomposition of the two streams. PRISM achieves state-of-the-art results on EgoExo4D, EgoExoLearn, AE2, even surpassing in-domain models under zero-shot setting. Code is available at https://github.com/litcoderr/prism.
Abstract:Cross-view video representation learning aims to capture viewpoint-invariant action semantics despite substantial appearance changes across egocentric and exocentric videos. However, existing methods encode each video as a unified embedding, where view-invariant and view-variant semantics inevitably entangle under co-occurrences - a failure mode we show persists even in cross-view methods explicitly trained for view-invariance. Our key insight is that a view-invariant feature is truly disentangled when it can be sufficiently recomposed with an arbitrary view-variant feature while preserving their independent semantics. Building on this, we propose PRISM, that decomposes video into view-invariant and view-variant latents and recompose them under language supervision encouraging clean decomposition of the two streams. PRISM achieves state-of-the-art results on EgoExo4D, EgoExoLearn, AE2, even surpassing in-domain models under zero-shot setting. Code is available at this https URL.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
arXiv:2608.30388 [cs.CV]
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