Saliency Guided Contrastive Learning on Scene Images

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.11461v2
• Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 05:46:53 GMT
• Title: Saliency Guided Contrastive Learning on Scene Images
• Authors: Meilin Chen, Yizhou Wang, Shixiang Tang, Feng Zhu, Haiyang Yang, Lei Bai, Rui Zhao, Donglian Qi, Wanli Ouyang
• Abstract summary: We leverage the saliency map derived from the model's output during learning to highlight discriminative regions and guide the whole contrastive learning. Our method significantly improves the performance of self-supervised learning on scene images by +1.1, +4.3, +2.2 Top1 accuracy in ImageNet linear evaluation, Semi-supervised learning with 1% and 10% ImageNet labels, respectively.
• Score: 71.07412958621052
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Self-supervised learning holds promise in leveraging large numbers of unlabeled data. However, its success heavily relies on the highly-curated dataset, e.g., ImageNet, which still needs human cleaning. Directly learning representations from less-curated scene images is essential for pushing self-supervised learning to a higher level. Different from curated images which include simple and clear semantic information, scene images are more complex and mosaic because they often include complex scenes and multiple objects. Despite being feasible, recent works largely overlooked discovering the most discriminative regions for contrastive learning to object representations in scene images. In this work, we leverage the saliency map derived from the model's output during learning to highlight these discriminative regions and guide the whole contrastive learning. Specifically, the saliency map first guides the method to crop its discriminative regions as positive pairs and then reweighs the contrastive losses among different crops by its saliency scores. Our method significantly improves the performance of self-supervised learning on scene images by +1.1, +4.3, +2.2 Top1 accuracy in ImageNet linear evaluation, Semi-supervised learning with 1% and 10% ImageNet labels, respectively. We hope our insights on saliency maps can motivate future research on more general-purpose unsupervised representation learning from scene data.

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