Contrastive Learning

OA-Mix is a general and effective data augmentation method for single-domain generalization in object detection. It increases image diversity while preserving important semantic features with multi-level transformations and object-aware mixing.

ParamCrop is a parametric cubic cropping for video contrastive learning, where cubic cropping refers to cropping a 3D cube from the input video. The central component of ParamCrop is a differentiable spatio-temporal cropping operation, which enables ParamCrop to be trained simultaneously with the video backbone and adjust the cropping strategy on the fly. The objective of ParamCrop is set to be adversarial to the video backbone, which is to increase the contrastive loss. Hence, initialized with the simplest setting where two cropped views largely overlaps, ParamCrop gradually increases the disparity between two views.

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A method to disentangle pose from other factors in a scene.

Sscs, or Support-set Based Cross-Supervision, is a module for video grounding which consists of two main components: a discriminative contrastive objective and a generative caption objective. The contrastive objective aims to learn effective representations by contrastive learning, while the caption objective can train a powerful video encoder supervised by texts. Due to the co-existence of some visual entities in both ground-truth and background intervals, i.e., mutual exclusion, naively contrastive learning is unsuitable to video grounding. This problem is addressed by boosting the cross-supervision with the support-set concept, which collects visual information from the whole video and eliminates the mutual exclusion of entities. Specifically, in the Figure to the right, two video-text pairs { $V\_{i}, L\_{i}$}, {$V\_{j} , L\_{j}$ } in the batch are presented for clarity. After feeding them into a video and text encoder, the clip-level and sentence-level embedding ( {$X\_{i}, Y\_{i}$} and {$X\_{j} , Y\_{j}$} ) in a shared space are acquired. Base on the support-set module, the weighted average of $X\_{i}$ and $X\_{j}$ is computed to obtain $\bar{X}\_{i}$, $\bar{X}\_{j}$ respectively. Finally, the contrastive and caption objectives are combined to pull close the representations of the clips and text from the same samples and push away those from other pairs

Unsupervised knowledge distillation from a pretrained language model to itself, by alternating between its bi- and cross-encoder forms.