Learning Domain-Adaptive Landmark Detection-Based Self-Supervised Video Synchronization for Remote Sensing Panorama

Abstract

The synchronization of videos is an essential pre-processing step for multi-view reconstruction such as the image mosaic by UAV remote sensing; it is often solved with hardware solutions in motion capture studios. However, traditional synchronization setups rely on manual interventions or software solutions and only fit for a particular domain of motions. In this paper, we propose a self-supervised video synchronization algorithm that attains high accuracy in diverse scenarios without cumbersome manual intervention. At the core is a motion-based video synchronization algorithm that infers temporal offsets from the trajectories of moving objects in the videos. It is complemented by a self-supervised scene decomposition algorithm that detects common parts and their motion tracks in two or more videos, without requiring any manual positional supervision. We evaluate our approach on three different datasets, including the motion of humans, animals, and simulated objects, and use it to build the view panorama of the remote sensing field. All experiments demonstrate that the proposed location-based synchronization is more effective compared to the state-of-the-art methods, and our self-supervised inference approaches the accuracy of supervised solutions, while being much easier to adapt to a new target domain.