Contrastive Learning of Global and Local Audio-Visual Representations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05418v1
• Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 07:35:08 GMT
• Title: Contrastive Learning of Global and Local Audio-Visual Representations
• Authors: Shuang Ma, Zhaoyang Zeng, Daniel McDuff, Yale Song
• Abstract summary: We propose a versatile self-supervised approach to learn audio-visual representations that generalizes to tasks that require global semantic information. We show that our approach learns generalizable video representations on various downstream scenarios including action/sound classification, lip reading, deepfake detection, and sound source localization.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Contrastive learning has delivered impressive results in many audio-visual representation learning scenarios. However, existing approaches optimize for learning either \textit{global} representations useful for tasks such as classification, or \textit{local} representations useful for tasks such as audio-visual source localization and separation. While they produce satisfactory results in their intended downstream scenarios, they often fail to generalize to tasks that they were not originally designed for. In this work, we propose a versatile self-supervised approach to learn audio-visual representations that generalize to both the tasks which require global semantic information (e.g., classification) and the tasks that require fine-grained spatio-temporal information (e.g. localization). We achieve this by optimizing two cross-modal contrastive objectives that together encourage our model to learn discriminative global-local visual information given audio signals. To show that our approach learns generalizable video representations, we evaluate it on various downstream scenarios including action/sound classification, lip reading, deepfake detection, and sound source localization.

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