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[bibtex]@InProceedings{Kuang_2021_ICCV, author = {Kuang, Haofei and Zhu, Yi and Zhang, Zhi and Li, Xinyu and Tighe, Joseph and Schwertfeger, S\"oren and Stachniss, Cyrill and Li, Mu}, title = {Video Contrastive Learning With Global Context}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops}, month = {October}, year = {2021}, pages = {3195-3204} }
Video Contrastive Learning With Global Context
Abstract
Contrastive learning has revolutionized the self-supervised image representation learning field and recently been adapted to the video domain. One of the greatest advantages of contrastive learning is that it allows us to flexibly define powerful loss objectives as long as we can find a reasonable way to formulate positive and negative samples to contrast. However, existing approaches rely heavily on the short-range spatiotemporal salience to form clip-level contrastive signals, thus limit themselves from using global context. In this paper, we propose a new video-level contrastive learning method based on segments to formulate positive pairs. Our formulation is able to capture the global context in a video, thus robust to temporal content change. We also incorporate a temporal order regularization term to enforce the inherent sequential structure of videos. Extensive experiments show that our video-level contrastive learning framework (VCLR) is able to outperform previous state-of-the-arts on five video datasets for downstream action classification, action localization, and video retrieval.
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