自動產生360影片顯著度（saliency）預測在視角導覽的應用中非常重要（如Facebook的360運鏡導覽）。這篇論文提出了一個同時考慮時間及空間的神經網絡，他有以上兩點特性：（一）這個網絡可以用非監督式學習（unsupervised learning）的方法訓練、（二）為360球面量身定做。值得一提的是，大多數現有的方法很難量化擴增，因為他們需要標注好的顯著分布圖（saliency map）來做訓練，更甚者，他們將360的球體轉換成2D圖片，如一個等距圓柱投影（equirectangular）的圖片，或是多個標準視野（normal field-of-view）圖片，因此產生扭曲及圖片邊界的問題。為了避免這些問題，我們提出了一個簡單且有效的方法，是為立方填補（cube padding），簡介如下：首先我們先以視角投影的方式渲染合成（render）出360圖片的六個視角，分別在立方體的六個面上，如此一來每個面的圖片都近乎沒有扭曲；接著我們將六個面全部疊合，並運用立方體上每個相鄰面間的連續性，來做網絡內卷積層（convolution）、池化層（pooling）、及卷積長短期記憶層（convolutional LSTM）中邊緣的填補（即立方填補）。如此，把立方填補應用在近乎所有的卷積網絡（convolutional neurol network）結構中，便消除了圖片間的邊界。為了評估我們的方法的表現，我們提出了新的Wild-360影片顯著程度的資料集，其中包含具有一定難度的影片，與標注好的顯著度分布圖。在實驗中，我們提出的方法在運算速度及預測品質上勝過現有的方法。

Automatic saliency prediction in 360 videos is critical for viewpoint guidance applications (e.g., Facebook 360 Guide). We propose a spatial-temporal network which is (1) unsupervisedly trained and (2) tailor-made for 360 viewing sphere. Note that most existing methods are less scalable since they rely on annotated saliency map for training. Most importantly, they convert 360 sphere to 2D images (e.g., a single equirectangular image or multiple separate Normal Field-of-View (NFoV) images) which introduces distortion and image boundaries. In contrast, we propose a simple and effective Cube Padding (CP) technique as follows. Firstly, we render the 360 view on six faces of a cube using perspective projection. Thus, it introduces very little distortion. Then, we concatenate all six faces while utilizing the connectivity between faces on the cube for image padding (i.e., Cube Padding) in convolution, pooling, convolutional LSTM layers.
In this way, CP introduces no image boundary while being applicable to almost all Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) structures. To evaluate our method, we propose Wild-360, a new 360 video saliency dataset, containing challenging videos with saliency heatmap annotations. In experiments, our method outperforms all baseline methods in both speed and quality.

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