Exploring Fine-Grained Audiovisual Categorization with the SSW60 Dataset

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  • Grant Van Horn
  • Rui Qian
  • Kimberly Wilber
  • Hartwig Adam
  • Oisin Mac Aodha
  • Belongie, Serge

We present a new benchmark dataset, Sapsucker Woods 60 (SSW60), for advancing research on audiovisual fine-grained categorization. While our community has made great strides in fine-grained visual categorization on images, the counterparts in audio and video fine-grained categorization are relatively unexplored. To encourage advancements in this space, we have carefully constructed the SSW60 dataset to enable researchers to experiment with classifying the same set of categories in three different modalities: images, audio, and video. The dataset covers 60 species of birds and is comprised of images from existing datasets, and brand new, expert curated audio and video datasets. We thoroughly benchmark audiovisual classification performance and modality fusion experiments through the use of state-of-the-art transformer methods. Our findings show that performance of audiovisual fusion methods is better than using exclusively image or audio based methods for the task of video classification. We also present interesting modality transfer experiments, enabled by the unique construction of SSW60 to encompass three different modalities. We hope the SSW60 dataset and accompanying baselines spur research in this fascinating area.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Vision – ECCV 2022 : 17th European Conference, Proceedings
EditorsShai Avidan, Gabriel Brostow, Moustapha Cissé, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Tal Hassner
Number of pages19
PublisherSpringer
Publication date2022
Pages271-289
ISBN (Print)9783031200731
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event17th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2022 - Tel Aviv, Israel
Duration: 23 Oct 202227 Oct 2022

Conference

Conference17th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2022
LandIsrael
ByTel Aviv
Periode23/10/202227/10/2022
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume13668 LNCS
ISSN0302-9743

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

    Research areas

  • Audio, Fine-grained, Multi-modal learning, Video

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