Based on life-long observations of physical, chemical, and biologic phenomena
in the natural world, humans can often easily picture in their minds what an
object will look like in the future. But, what about computers? In this paper,
we learn computational models of object transformations from time-lapse videos.
In particular, we explore the use of generative models to create depictions of
objects at future times. These models explore several different prediction
tasks: generating a future state given a single depiction of an object,
generating a future state given two depictions of an object at different times,
and generating future states recursively in a recurrent framework. We provide
both qualitative and quantitative evaluations of the generated results, and
also conduct a human evaluation to compare variations of our models.

本研究使用生成模型从时光缩影中计算得出物体变形，包括：生成单个物体的未来状态、生成两个不同时刻的物体状态以及在循环框架中递归生成未来状态，并通过定性和定量方法进行评估并与其他模型进行比较。

从时间 - lapse 视频学习时间转换

Learning Temporal Transformations From Time-Lapse Videos

Tracking-by-detection approaches are some of the most successful object
trackers in recent years. Their success is largely determined by the detector
model they learn initially and then update over time. However, under
challenging conditions where an object can undergo transformations, e.g.,
severe rotation, these methods are found to be lacking. In this paper, we
address this problem by formulating it as a proposal selection task and making
two contributions. The first one is introducing novel proposals estimated from
the geometric transformations undergone by the object, and building a rich
candidate set for predicting the object location. The second one is devising a
novel selection strategy using multiple cues, i.e., detection score and
edgeness score computed from state-of-the-art object edges and motion
boundaries. We extensively evaluate our approach on the visual object tracking
2014 challenge and online tracking benchmark datasets, and show the best
performance.

本文提出了一种通过采用基于几何变换估算的新建议并运用多种线索的选择策略，来跟踪在对象可能经历严重旋转等多种变换下的的目标进行追踪，并在多个数据集中获得最佳性能。