LocTex: Learning Data-Efficient Visual Representations from Localized Textual Supervision

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.11950v1
• Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 17:59:07 GMT
• Title: LocTex: Learning Data-Efficient Visual Representations from Localized Textual Supervision
• Authors: Zhijian Liu, Simon Stent, Jie Li, John Gideon, Song Han
• Abstract summary: LocTex takes advantage of the low-cost localized textual annotations to reduce the annotation effort. Compared with ImageNet supervised pre-training, LocTex can reduce the size of the pre-training dataset by 10x or the target dataset by 2x.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Computer vision tasks such as object detection and semantic/instance segmentation rely on the painstaking annotation of large training datasets. In this paper, we propose LocTex that takes advantage of the low-cost localized textual annotations (i.e., captions and synchronized mouse-over gestures) to reduce the annotation effort. We introduce a contrastive pre-training framework between images and captions and propose to supervise the cross-modal attention map with rendered mouse traces to provide coarse localization signals. Our learned visual features capture rich semantics (from free-form captions) and accurate localization (from mouse traces), which are very effective when transferred to various downstream vision tasks. Compared with ImageNet supervised pre-training, LocTex can reduce the size of the pre-training dataset by 10x or the target dataset by 2x while achieving comparable or even improved performance on COCO instance segmentation. When provided with the same amount of annotations, LocTex achieves around 4% higher accuracy than the previous state-of-the-art "vision+language" pre-training approach on the task of PASCAL VOC image classification.

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