ParamCrop: Parametric Cubic Cropping for Video Contrastive Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.10501v1
• Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 03:18:12 GMT
• Title: ParamCrop: Parametric Cubic Cropping for Video Contrastive Learning
• Authors: Zhiwu Qing, Ziyuan Huang, Shiwei Zhang, Mingqian Tang, Changxin Gao, Marcelo H. Ang Jr, Rong Ji, Nong Sang
• Abstract summary: We present a parametric cubic cropping operation, ParamCrop, for video contrastive learning. ParamCrop is trained simultaneously with the video backbone using an adversarial objective and learns an optimal cropping strategy from the data. visualizations show that the center distance and the IoU between two augmented views are adaptively controlled by ParamCrop.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The central idea of contrastive learning is to discriminate between different instances and force different views of the same instance to share the same representation. To avoid trivial solutions, augmentation plays an important role in generating different views, among which random cropping is shown to be effective for the model to learn a strong and generalized representation. Commonly used random crop operation keeps the difference between two views statistically consistent along the training process. In this work, we challenge this convention by showing that adaptively controlling the disparity between two augmented views along the training process enhances the quality of the learnt representation. Specifically, we present a parametric cubic cropping operation, ParamCrop, for video contrastive learning, which automatically crops a 3D cubic from the video by differentiable 3D affine transformations. ParamCrop is trained simultaneously with the video backbone using an adversarial objective and learns an optimal cropping strategy from the data. The visualizations show that the center distance and the IoU between two augmented views are adaptively controlled by ParamCrop and the learned change in the disparity along the training process is beneficial to learning a strong representation. Extensive ablation studies demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed ParamCrop on multiple contrastive learning frameworks and video backbones. With ParamCrop, we improve the state-of-the-art performance on both HMDB51 and UCF101 datasets.

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