Leaping Into Memories: Space-Time Deep Feature Synthesis

Alexandros Stergiou, Nikos Deligiannis
2/14/2026

No official code found. Best implementation: alexandrosstergiou/Leaping-Into-Memories (3 stars, MIT, last commit 2023-07-25).

Abstract

The success of deep learning models has led to their adaptation and adoption by prominent video understanding methods. The majority of these approaches encode features in a joint space-time modality for which the inner workings and learned representations are difficult to visually interpret. We propose LEArned Preconscious Synthesis (LEAPS), an architecture-independent method for synthesizing videos from the internal spatiotemporal representations of models. Using a stimulus video and a target class, we prime a fixed space-time model and iteratively optimize a video initialized with random noise. Additional regularizers are used to improve the feature diversity of the synthesized videos alongside the cross-frame temporal coherence of motions. We quantitatively and qualitatively evaluate the applicability of LEAPS by inverting a range of spatiotemporal convolutional and attention-based architectures trained on Kinetics-400, which to the best of our knowledge has not been previously accomplished.1

View on arXivView PDF

Code Implementations(1)

MIT

[ICCV 2023] Code implementation for "Leaping Into Memories: Space-Time Deep Feature Synthesis"

30PythonFeb 28, 20233 years agoMIT
feature-synthesisfeature-visualizationinterpretabilityspatiotemporal-featuresvideo-understanding

Similar Papers

Cite this paper

@article{stergiou2026leaping,
  title  = {Leaping Into Memories: Space-Time Deep Feature Synthesis},
  author = {Alexandros Stergiou and Nikos Deligiannis},
  year   = {2026},
  eprint = {2303.09941},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.09941},
  journal = {ICCV 2023 2023}
}

Add a badge to your README

Shows whether official code is linked for this paper.

Code of Paper badge
[![Code of Paper](https://codeofpaper.com/badge/2303.09941.svg)](https://codeofpaper.com/paper/2303.09941)

Discussion