Video pretraining decouples motion and appearance paths to boost motion tasks

A matched 4x6 sweep of architectures and objectives shows only the TT3D plus Diff Compression pairing yields a representation that simultaneously leads four motion-heavy fine-tuning benchmarks.

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Shih-Ying Yeh · Daniel Z. Kaplan · Xuehai Wang · Fu-En Yang · Min-Hung Chen · Shang-Hong Lai

National Tsing Hua University · Comfy Org Research · realiz.ai · Karolinska Institutet · Stockholm University

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The authors introduce TT-VidT, a video self-supervised learning method that separates static appearance from temporal change.

The authors designed a controlled video self-supervised learning (SSL) protocol to isolate which architecture-objective combinations produce motion-prioritized representations.

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TT-VidT decouples appearance and motion in video pretraining, leading on motion-heavy benchmark fine-tuning with fewer FLOPs.

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