ASCNet: Self-supervised Video Representation Learning with Appearance-Speed Consistency

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.02342v1
• Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2021 08:44:50 GMT
• Title: ASCNet: Self-supervised Video Representation Learning with Appearance-Speed Consistency
• Authors: Deng Huang, Wenhao Wu, Weiwen Hu, Xu Liu, Dongliang He, Zhihua Wu, Xiangmiao Wu, Mingkui Tan, Errui Ding
• Abstract summary: We study self-supervised video representation learning, which is a challenging task due to 1) a lack of labels for explicit supervision and 2) unstructured and noisy visual information. Existing methods mainly use contrastive loss with video clips as the instances and learn visual representation by discriminating instances from each other. In this paper, we observe that the consistency between positive samples is the key to learn robust video representations.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: We study self-supervised video representation learning, which is a challenging task due to 1) a lack of labels for explicit supervision and 2) unstructured and noisy visual information. Existing methods mainly use contrastive loss with video clips as the instances and learn visual representation by discriminating instances from each other, but they require careful treatment of negative pairs by relying on large batch sizes, memory banks, extra modalities, or customized mining strategies, inevitably including noisy data. In this paper, we observe that the consistency between positive samples is the key to learn robust video representations. Specifically, we propose two tasks to learn the appearance and speed consistency, separately. The appearance consistency task aims to maximize the similarity between two clips of the same video with different playback speeds. The speed consistency task aims to maximize the similarity between two clips with the same playback speed but different appearance information. We show that joint optimization of the two tasks consistently improves the performance on downstream tasks, e.g., action recognition and video retrieval. Remarkably, for action recognition on the UCF-101 dataset, we achieve 90.8% accuracy without using any additional modalities or negative pairs for unsupervised pretraining, outperforming the ImageNet supervised pre-trained model. Codes and models will be available.

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