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Fovea-JEPA: Overcoming Geometric Blind Spots in V-JEPA for Camera Motion Recognition

Xiangkun Shi·Hanhui Li·Shiyue Zhang·Chang Liu·Junwen Pan·Zhenbang Sun·Xiaodan Liang
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Camera motion recognition requires separating viewpoint changes caused by camera translation, rotation, or zoom from object motion and scene dynamics. Video-language models often rely on semantic cues and struggle with the geometric evidence needed for this task. Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures such as V-JEPA offer strong spatio-temporal representations, but our experiments suggest that they underrepresent geometric cues in some regions. Under temporal-reversal supervision, V-JEPA improves overall but degrades on several motion families, whereas a weaker geometry-oriented VGGT predictor improves across all families. We refer to these geometrically underrepresented regions as geometric blind spots and propose Fovea-JEPA to identify and address them. Using V-JEPA as the base model and VGGT as a geometry expert, we construct intervention pseudo-labels from their prediction errors to weakly supervise a blind-spot predictor. The predictor produces token-wise response maps, which are aggregated into a clip-level intervention score to guide adaptive fusion of visual and geometric features. This selective intervention introduces complementary geometric information while preserving reliable visual predictions. Experiments on CameraMotionDataset, CameraBench, and ShotBench demonstrate the effectiveness of Fovea-JEPA, with gains of 9.67, 8.67, and 24.38 percentage points over previously reported state-of-the-art baselines, respectively. Code and models will be released upon acceptance.

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Xiangkun Shi, Hanhui Li, Shiyue Zhang, Chang Liu, Junwen Pan, Zhenbang Sun, Xiaodan Liang. 2026-10-25. Fovea-JEPA: Overcoming Geometric Blind Spots in V-JEPA for Camera Motion Recognition. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.34033

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