Unsupervised object discovery (UOD) refers to the task of discriminating the whole region of objects from the background within a scene without relying on labeled datasets, which benefits the task of bounding-box-level localization and pixel-level segmentation. This task is promising due to its ability to discover objects in a generic manner. We roughly categorise existing techniques into two main directions, namely the generative solutions based on image resynthesis, and the clustering methods based on self-supervised models. We have observed that the former heavily relies on the quality of image reconstruction, while the latter shows limitations in effectively modeling semantic correlations. To directly target at object discovery, we focus on the latter approach and propose a novel solution by incorporating weakly-supervised contrastive learning (WCL) to enhance semantic information exploration. We design a semantic-guided self-supervised learning model to extract high-level semantic features from images, which is achieved by fine-tuning the feature encoder of a self-supervised model, namely DINO, via WCL. Subsequently, we introduce Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to localize object regions. The principal projection direction, corresponding to the maximal eigenvalue, serves as an indicator of the object region(s). Extensive experiments on benchmark unsupervised object discovery datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed solution. The source code and experimental results are publicly available via our project page at https://github.com/npucvr/WSCUOD.git.
Semantic segmentation models struggle to generalize in the presence of domain shift. In this paper, we introduce contrastive learning for feature alignment in cross-domain adaptation. We assemble both in-domain contrastive pairs and cross-domain contrastive pairs to learn discriminative features that align across domains. Based on the resulting well-aligned feature representations we introduce a label expansion approach that is able to discover samples from hard classes during the adaptation process to further boost performance. The proposed approach consistently outperforms state-of-the-art m…
University of Technology Sydney（悉尼科技大学）；Google AI（谷歌人工智能）；Baidu Research（百度研究院）；Carnegie Mellon University（卡内基梅隆大学）
Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) makes predictions for the target domain data while manual annotations are only available in the source domain. Previous methods minimize the domain discrepancy neglecting the class information, which may lead to misalignment and poor generalization performance. To address this issue, this paper proposes Contrastive Adaptation Network (CAN) optimizing a new metric which explicitly models the intra-class domain discrepancy and the inter-class domain discrepancy. We design an alternating update strategy for training CAN in an end-to-end manner. Experiments on …
Mercedes Benz Research and Development India（梅赛德斯-奔驰印度研发中心）
In this work, we propose CLUDA, a simple, yet novel method for performing unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) for semantic segmentation by incorporating contrastive losses into a student-teacher learning paradigm, that makes use of pseudo-labels generated from the target domain by the teacher network. More specifically, we extract a multi-level fused-feature map from the encoder, and apply contrastive loss across different classes and different domains, via source-target mixing of images. We consistently improve performance on various feature encoder architectures and for different domain ada…
Unsupervised domain adaptation aims to align a labeled source domain and an unlabeled target domain, but it requires to access the source data which often raises concerns in data privacy, data portability and data transmission efficiency. We study unsupervised model adaptation (UMA), or called Unsupervised Domain Adaptation without Source Data, an alternative setting that aims to adapt source-trained models towards target distributions without accessing source data. To this end, we design an innovative historical contrastive learning (HCL) technique that exploits historical source hypothesis t…
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China（电子科技大学）
Previous feature alignment methods in Unsupervised domain adaptation(UDA) mostly only align global features without considering the mismatch between class-wise features. In this work, we propose a new coarse-to-fine feature alignment method using contrastive learning called CFContra. It draws class-wise features closer than coarse feature alignment or class-wise feature alignment only, therefore improves the model's performance to a great extent. We build it upon one of the most effective methods of UDA called entropy minimization to further improve performance. In particular, to prevent exces…
Ajou University（亚洲大学）；NAVER AI Lab（NAVER人工智能实验室）；University of Birmingham（伯明翰大学）
Recent unsupervised domain adaptation methods have utilized vicinal space between the source and target domains. However, the equilibrium collapse of labels, a problem where the source labels are dominant over the target labels in the predictions of vicinal instances, has never been addressed. In this paper, we propose an instance-wise minimax strategy that minimizes the entropy of high uncertainty instances in the vicinal space to tackle the stated problem. We divide the vicinal space into two subspaces through the solution of the minimax problem: contrastive space and consensus space. In the…
Sun Yat-sen University（中山大学）；SUNY at Buffalo（纽约州立大学布法罗分校）
Many unsupervised hashing methods are implicitly established on the idea of reconstructing the input data, which basically encourages the hashing codes to retain as much information of original data as possible. However, this requirement may force the models spending lots of their effort on reconstructing the unuseful background information, while ignoring to preserve the discriminative semantic information that is more important for the hashing task. To tackle this problem, inspired by the recent success of contrastive learning in learning continuous representations, we propose to adapt this …
Outlier detection is one of the most important processes taken to create good, reliable data in machine learning. The most methods of outlier detection leverage an auxiliary reconstruction task by assuming that outliers are more difficult to be recovered than normal samples (inliers). However, it is not always true, especially for auto-encoder (AE) based models. They may recover certain outliers even outliers are not in the training data, because they do not constrain the feature learning. Instead, we think outlier detection can be done in the feature space by measuring the feature distance be…
University of Missouri（密苏里大学）；Beijing Jiaotong University（北京交通大学）
Existing approaches for unsupervised metric learning focus on exploring self-supervision information within the input image itself. We observe that, when analyzing images, human eyes often compare images against each other instead of examining images individually. In addition, they often pay attention to certain keypoints, image regions, or objects which are discriminative between image classes but highly consistent within classes. Even if the image is being transformed, the attention pattern will be consistent. Motivated by this observation, we develop a new approach to unsupervised deep metr…
We introduce the task of weakly supervised learning for detecting human and object interactions in videos. Our task poses unique challenges as a system does not know what types of human-object interactions are present in a video or the actual spatiotemporal location of the human and the object. To address these challenges, we introduce a contrastive weakly supervised training loss that aims to jointly associate spatiotemporal regions in a video with an action and object vocabulary and encourage temporal continuity of the visual appearance of moving objects as a form of self-supervision. To tra…
Radboud University Medical Center（拉德堡德大学医学中心）；The Netherlands Cancer Institute（荷兰癌症研究所）；Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology（南京信息工程大学）
Domain adaptation has been widely adopted to transfer styles across multi-vendors and multi-centers, as well as to complement the missing modalities. In this challenge, we proposed an unsupervised domain adaptation framework for cross-modality vestibular schwannoma (VS) and cochlea segmentation and Koos grade prediction. We learn the shared representation from both ceT1 and hrT2 images and recover another modality from the latent representation, and we also utilize proxy tasks of VS segmentation and brain parcellation to restrict the consistency of image structures in domain adaptation. After …
Event-based cameras offer reliable measurements for preforming computer vision tasks in high-dynamic range environments and during fast motion maneuvers. However, adopting deep learning in event-based vision faces the challenge of annotated data scarcity due to recency of event cameras. Transferring the knowledge that can be obtained from conventional camera annotated data offers a practical solution to this challenge. We develop an unsupervised domain adaptation algorithm for training a deep network for event-based data image classification using contrastive learning and uncorrelated conditio…
We consider unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA), where labeled data from a source domain (e.g., photographs) and unlabeled data from a target domain (e.g., sketches) are used to learn a classifier for the target domain. Conventional UDA methods (e.g., domain adversarial training) learn domain-invariant features to improve generalization to the target domain. In this paper, we show that contrastive pre-training, which learns features on unlabeled source and target data and then fine-tunes on labeled source data, is competitive with strong UDA methods. However, we find that contrastive pre-trai…
Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to transfer knowledge learned from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain. Contrastive learning (CL) in the context of UDA can help to better separate classes in feature space. However, in image segmentation, the large memory footprint due to the computation of the pixel-wise contrastive loss makes it prohibitive to use. Furthermore, labeled target data is not easily available in medical imaging, and obtaining new samples is not economical. As a result, in this work, we tackle a more challenging UDA task when there are only a few (fewsho…
Seoul National University（首尔国立大学）；Hyundai Motor Group（现代汽车集团）
Enhancing feature transferability by matching marginal distributions has led to improvements in domain adaptation, although this is at the expense of feature discrimination. In particular, the ideal joint hypothesis error in the target error upper bound, which was previously considered to be minute, has been found to be significant, impairing its theoretical guarantee. In this paper, we propose an alternative upper bound on the target error that explicitly considers the joint error to render it more manageable. With the theoretical analysis, we suggest a joint optimization framework that combi…
Contrastive self-supervised learning methods learn to map data points such as images into non-parametric representation space without requiring labels. While highly successful, current methods require a large amount of data in the training phase. In situations where the target training set is limited in size, generalization is known to be poor. Pretraining on a large source data set and fine-tuning on the target samples is prone to overfitting in the few-shot regime, where only a small number of target samples are available. Motivated by this, we propose a domain adaption method for self-super…
Institute of Signal Processing and System Theory, University of Stuttgart（斯图加特大学信号处理与系统理论研究所）
Deep convolutional neural networks have considerably improved state-of-the-art results for semantic segmentation. Nevertheless, even modern architectures lack the ability to generalize well to a test dataset that originates from a different domain. To avoid the costly annotation of training data for unseen domains, unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) attempts to provide efficient knowledge transfer from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain. Previous work has mainly focused on minimizing the discrepancy between the two domains by using adversarial training or self-training. Wh…
F Hoffmann-La Roche AG（罗氏公司）；Genentech Inc（基因泰克公司）；ETH Zurich（苏黎世联邦理工学院）；Uppsala University（乌普萨拉大学）
Accurate segmentation of retinal fluids in 3D Optical Coherence Tomography images is key for diagnosis and personalized treatment of eye diseases. While deep learning has been successful at this task, trained supervised models often fail for images that do not resemble labeled examples, e.g. for images acquired using different devices. We hereby propose a novel semi-supervised learning framework for segmentation of volumetric images from new unlabeled domains. We jointly use supervised and contrastive learning, also introducing a contrastive pairing scheme that leverages similarity between nea…
Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to transfer knowledge learned from a fully-labeled source domain to a different unlabeled target domain. Most existing UDA methods learn domain-invariant feature representations by minimizing feature distances across domains. In this work, we build upon contrastive self-supervised learning to align features so as to reduce the domain discrepancy between training and testing sets. Exploring the same set of categories shared by both domains, we introduce a simple yet effective framework CDCL, for domain alignment. In particular, given an anchor image fro…
Unsupervised learning methods for feature extraction are becoming more and more popular. We combine the popular contrastive learning method (prototypical contrastive learning) and the classic representation learning method (autoencoder) to design an unsupervised feature learning network for hyperspectral classification. Experiments have proved that our two proposed autoencoder networks have good feature learning capabilities by themselves, and the contrastive learning network we designed can better combine the features of the two to learn more representative features. As a result, our method s…
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications（北京邮电大学）
Unsupervised person re-identification (Re-ID) aims to match pedestrian images from different camera views in unsupervised setting. Existing methods for unsupervised person Re-ID are usually built upon the pseudo labels from clustering. However, the quality of clustering depends heavily on the quality of the learned features, which are overwhelmingly dominated by the colors in images especially in the unsupervised setting. In this paper, we propose a Cluster-guided Asymmetric Contrastive Learning (CACL) approach for unsupervised person Re-ID, in which cluster structure is leveraged to guide the…
Inria（法国国家信息与自动化研究所）；Université Côte d’Azur（蔚蓝海岸大学）；European Systems Integration（欧洲系统集成公司）
Recent self-supervised contrastive learning provides an effective approach for unsupervised person re-identification (ReID) by learning invariance from different views (transformed versions) of an input. In this paper, we incorporate a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) and a contrastive learning module into one joint training framework. While the GAN provides online data augmentation for contrastive learning, the contrastive module learns view-invariant features for generation. In this context, we propose a mesh-based view generator. Specifically, mesh projections serve as references toward…
School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology（哈尔滨工业大学计算机科学与技术学院）；Peng Cheng Laboratory（鹏城实验室）
Person re-identification (ReID) aims at searching the same identity person among images captured by various cameras. Unsupervised person ReID attracts a lot of attention recently, due to it works without intensive manual annotation and thus shows great potential of adapting to new conditions. Representation learning plays a critical role in unsupervised person ReID. In this work, we propose a novel selective contrastive learning framework for unsupervised feature learning. Specifically, different from traditional contrastive learning strategies, we propose to use multiple positives and adaptiv…
Inria（法国国家信息与自动化研究所）；Université Côte d’Azur（蔚蓝海岸大学）；European Systems Integration（欧洲系统集成公司）
Unsupervised person re-identification (ReID) aims at learning discriminative identity features without annotations. Recently, self-supervised contrastive learning has gained increasing attention for its effectiveness in unsupervised representation learning. The main idea of instance contrastive learning is to match a same instance in different augmented views. However, the relationship between different instances has not been fully explored in previous contrastive methods, especially for instance-level contrastive loss. To address this issue, we propose Inter-instance Contrastive Encoding (ICE…
We address the problem of unsupervised classification of players in a team sport according to their team affiliation, when jersey colours and design are not known a priori. We adopt a contrastive learning approach in which an embedding network learns to maximize the distance between representations of players on different teams relative to players on the same team, in a purely unsupervised fashion, without any labelled data. We evaluate the approach using a new hockey dataset and find that it outperforms prior unsupervised approaches by a substantial margin, particularly for real-time applicat…
Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Study, UESTC（电子科技大学深圳高等研究院）
Unsupervised out-of-distribution (OOD) Detection aims to separate the samples falling outside the distribution of training data without label information. Among numerous branches, contrastive learning has shown its excellent capability of learning discriminative representation in OOD detection. However, for its limited vision, merely focusing on instance-level relationship between augmented samples, it lacks attention to the relationship between samples with same semantics. Based on the classic contrastive learning, we propose Cluster-aware Contrastive Learning (CCL) framework for unsupervised…
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications（北京邮电大学）
Unsupervised person re-identification (ReID) aims to match a query image of a pedestrian to the images in gallery set without supervision labels. The most popular approaches to tackle unsupervised person ReID are usually performing a clustering algorithm to yield pseudo labels at first and then exploit the pseudo labels to train a deep neural network. However, the pseudo labels are noisy and sensitive to the hyper-parameter(s) in clustering algorithm. In this paper, we propose a Hybrid Contrastive Learning (HCL) approach for unsupervised person ReID, which is based on a hybrid between instance…
Medical image segmentation is a relevant task as it serves as the first step for several diagnosis processes, thus it is indispensable in clinical usage. Whilst major success has been reported using supervised techniques, they assume a large and well-representative labelled set. This is a strong assumption in the medical domain where annotations are expensive, time-consuming, and inherent to human bias. To address this problem, unsupervised techniques have been proposed in the literature yet it is still an open problem due to the difficulty of learning any transformation pattern. In this work,…
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications（北京邮电大学）
Unsupervised Re-ID methods aim at learning robust and discriminative features from unlabeled data. However, existing methods often ignore the relationship between module parameters of Re-ID framework and feature distributions, which may lead to feature misalignment and hinder the model performance. To address this problem, we propose a dynamic clustering and cluster contrastive learning (DCCC) method. Specifically, we first design a dynamic clustering parameters scheduler (DCPS) which adjust the hyper-parameter of clustering to fit the variation of intra- and inter-class distances. Then, a dyn…
Nanjing University of Science and Technology（南京理工大学）；Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics（南京航空航天大学）
Part feature learning is critical for fine-grained semantic understanding in vehicle re-identification. However, existing approaches directly model part features and global features, which can easily lead to serious gradient vanishing issues due to their unequal feature information and unreliable pseudo-labels for unsupervised vehicle re-identification. To address this problem, in this paper, we propose a simple Triplet Contrastive Representation Learning (TCRL) framework which leverages cluster features to bridge the part features and global features for unsupervised vehicle re-identification…
Self-supervised instance discrimination is an effective contrastive pretext task to learn feature representations and address limited medical image annotations. The idea is to make features of transformed versions of the same images similar while forcing all other augmented images' representations to contrast. However, this instance-based contrastive learning leaves performance on the table by failing to maximize feature affinity between images with similar content while counter-productively pushing their representations apart. Recent improvements on this paradigm (e.g., leveraging multi-modal…
Inria（法国国家信息与自动化研究所）；Université Côte d’Azur（蔚蓝海岸大学）；European Systems Integration（欧洲系统集成公司）
Existing unsupervised person re-identification (ReID) methods focus on adapting a model trained on a source domain to a fixed target domain. However, an adapted ReID model usually only works well on a certain target domain, but can hardly memorize the source domain knowledge and generalize to upcoming unseen data. In this paper, we propose unsupervised lifelong person ReID, which focuses on continuously conducting unsupervised domain adaptation on new domains without forgetting the knowledge learnt from old domains. To tackle unsupervised lifelong ReID, we conduct a contrastive rehearsal on a …
Shandong University（山东大学）；Hong Kong Baptist University（香港浸会大学）；Meituan（美团）
Unsupervised person re-identification (re-ID) aims at closing the performance gap to supervised methods. These methods build reliable relationship between data points while learning representations. However, we empirically show that the reason why they are successful is not only their label generation mechanisms, but also their unexplored designs. By studying two unsupervised person re-ID methods in a cross-method way, we point out a hard negative problem is handled implicitly by their designs of data augmentations and PK sampler respectively. In this paper, we find another simple solution for…
Unsupervised person re-identification (ReID) is a challenging task without data annotation to guide discriminative learning. Existing methods attempt to solve this problem by clustering extracted embeddings to generate pseudo labels. However, most methods ignore the intra-class gap caused by camera style variance, and some methods are relatively complex and indirect although they try to solve the negative impact of the camera style on feature distribution. To solve this problem, we propose a camera-aware style separation and contrastive learning method (CA-UReID), which directly separates came…
Anhui University（安徽大学）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）
Photo-to-caricature translation aims to synthesize the caricature as a rendered image exaggerating the features through sketching, pencil strokes, or other artistic drawings. Style rendering and geometry deformation are the most important aspects in photo-to-caricature translation task. To take both into consideration, we propose an unsupervised contrastive photo-to-caricature translation architecture. Considering the intuitive artifacts in the existing methods, we propose a contrastive style loss for style rendering to enforce the similarity between the style of rendered photo and the caricat…
Video summarization aims to select the most informative subset of frames in a video to facilitate efficient video browsing. Unsupervised methods usually rely on heuristic training objectives such as diversity and representativeness. However, such methods need to bootstrap the online-generated summaries to compute the objectives for importance score regression. We consider such a pipeline inefficient and seek to directly quantify the frame-level importance with the help of contrastive losses in the representation learning literature. Leveraging the contrastive losses, we propose three metrics f…
Unsupervised Multiview Contrastive Language-Image Joint Learning with Pseudo-Labeled Prompts Via Vision-Language Model for 3D/4D Facial Expression Recognition
Image-to-image translation aims to learn a mapping between different groups of visually distinguishable images. While recent methods have shown impressive ability to change even intricate appearance of images, they still rely on domain labels in training a model to distinguish between distinct visual features. Such dependency on labels often significantly limits the scope of applications since consistent and high-quality labels are expensive. Instead, we wish to capture visual features from images themselves and apply them to enable realistic translation without human-generated labels. To this…
Existing public person Re-Identification~(ReID) datasets are small in modern terms because of labeling difficulty. Although unlabeled surveillance video is abundant and relatively easy to obtain, it is unclear how to leverage these footage to learn meaningful ReID representations. In particular, most existing unsupervised and domain adaptation ReID methods utilize only the public datasets in their experiments, with labels removed. In addition, due to small data sizes, these methods usually rely on fine tuning by the unlabeled training data in the testing domain to achieve good performance. Ins…
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)（德国癌症研究中心（DKFZ））
Unsupervised anomaly detection in medical imaging aims to detect and localize arbitrary anomalies without requiring annotated anomalous data during training. Often, this is achieved by learning a data distribution of normal samples and detecting anomalies as regions in the image which deviate from this distribution. Most current state-of-the-art methods use latent variable generative models operating directly on the images. However, generative models have been shown to mostly capture low-level features, s.a. pixel-intensities, instead of rich semantic features, which also applies to their repr…
South China University of Technology（华南理工大学）；Inria（法国国家信息与自动化研究所）
Annotation of large-scale 3D data is notoriously cumbersome and costly. As an alternative, weakly-supervised learning alleviates such a need by reducing the annotation by several order of magnitudes. We propose COARSE3D, a novel architecture-agnostic contrastive learning strategy for 3D segmentation. Since contrastive learning requires rich and diverse examples as keys and anchors, we leverage a prototype memory bank capturing class-wise global dataset information efficiently into a small number of prototypes acting as keys. An entropy-driven sampling technique then allows us to select good pi…
As a pioneering work, PointContrast conducts unsupervised 3D representation learning via leveraging contrastive learning over raw RGB-D frames and proves its effectiveness on various downstream tasks. However, the trend of large-scale unsupervised learning in 3D has yet to emerge due to two stumbling blocks: the inefficiency of matching RGB-D frames as contrastive views and the annoying mode collapse phenomenon mentioned in previous works. Turning the two stumbling blocks into empirical stepping stones, we first propose an efficient and effective contrastive learning framework, which generates…
University of Technology Sydney（悉尼科技大学）；Baidu Inc.（百度公司）；Zhejiang University（浙江大学）
This paper investigates unsupervised representation learning for facial expression analysis. We think Unsupervised Facial Expression Representation (UFER) deserves exploration and has the potential to address some key challenges in facial expression analysis, such as scaling, annotation bias, the discrepancy between discrete labels and continuous emotions, and model pre-training. Such motivated, we propose a UFER method with contrastive local warping (ContraWarping), which leverages the insight that the emotional expression is robust to current global transformation (affine transformation, col…
Insight SFI Centre for Data Analytics（Insight SFI数据分析中心）；Dublin City University（都柏林城市大学）
Using search engines for web image retrieval is a tempting alternative to manual curation when creating an image dataset, but their main drawback remains the proportion of incorrect (noisy) samples retrieved. These noisy samples have been evidenced by previous works to be a mixture of in-distribution (ID) samples, assigned to the incorrect category but presenting similar visual semantics to other classes in the dataset, and out-of-distribution (OOD) images, which share no semantic correlation with any category from the dataset. The latter are, in practice, the dominant type of noisy images ret…
