Spatiotemporal Contrastive Video Representation Learning

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  • Rui Qian
  • Tianjian Meng
  • Boqing Gong
  • Ming Hsuan Yang
  • Huisheng Wang
  • Belongie, Serge
  • Yin Cui

We present a self-supervised Contrastive Video Representation Learning (CVRL) method to learn spatiotemporal visual representations from unlabeled videos. Our representations are learned using a contrastive loss, where two augmented clips from the same short video are pulled together in the embedding space, while clips from different videos are pushed away. We study what makes for good data augmentations for video self-supervised learning and find that both spatial and temporal information are crucial. We carefully design data augmentations involving spatial and temporal cues. Concretely, we propose a temporally consistent spatial augmentation method to impose strong spatial augmentations on each frame of the video while maintaining the temporal consistency across frames. We also propose a sampling-based temporal augmentation method to avoid overly enforcing invariance on clips that are distant in time. On Kinetics-600, a linear classifier trained on the representations learned by CVRL achieves 70.4% top-1 accuracy with a 3D-ResNet-50 (R3D-50) backbone, outperforming ImageNet supervised pre-training by 15.7% and SimCLR unsupervised pre-training by 18.8% using the same inflated R3D-50. The performance of CVRL can be further improved to 72.9% with a larger R3D-152 (2× filters) backbone, significantly closing the gap between unsupervised and supervised video representation learning. Our code and models will be available at https://github.com/tensorflow/models/tree/master/official/.

Original languageEnglish
JournalProceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Pages (from-to)6960-6970
Number of pages11
ISSN1063-6919
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2021 - Virtual, Online, United States
Duration: 19 Jun 202125 Jun 2021

Conference

Conference2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2021
CountryUnited States
CityVirtual, Online
Period19/06/202125/06/2021

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We would like to thank Yeqing Li and the TensorFlow TPU team for their infrastructure support; Tsung-Yi Lin, Ting Chen and Yonglong Tian for their valuable feedback.

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