Self-supervised video transformer

Authors

Kanchana Ranasinghe, Stony Brook University & Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial IntelligenceFollow
Muzammal Naseer, Australian National University & Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial IntelligenceFollow
Salman Khan, Australian National University & Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial IntelligenceFollow
Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence & Linköping UniversityFollow
Michael Ryoo, Stony Brook University

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

arXiv

Abstract

In this paper, we propose self-supervised training for video transformers using unlabelled video data. From a given video, we create local and global spatiotemporal views with varying spatial sizes and frame rates. Our self-supervised objective seeks to match the features of these different views representing the same video, to be invariant to spatiotemporal variations in actions. To the best of our knowledge, the proposed approach is the first to alleviate the dependency on negative samples or dedicated memory banks in Self-supervised Video Transformer (SVT). Further, owing to the flexibility of Transformer models, SVT supports slow-fast video processing within a single architecture using dynamically adjusted positional encodings and supports long-term relationship modeling along spatiotemporal dimensions. Our approach performs well on four action recognition benchmarks (Kinetics-400, UCF-101, HMDB-51, and SSv2) and converges faster with small batch sizes. Code: https://git.io/J1juJ Copyright © 2021, The Authors. All rights reserved.

DOI

doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2112.01514

Publication Date

12-2-2021

Keywords

Machine learning, Fast video, Frame-rate, Memory banks, Negative samples, Spatial frames, Spatial size, Spatio-temporal variation, Supervised trainings, Transformer modeling, Video data, Video signal processing, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)

Comments

Preprint: arXiv

Recommended Citation

K. Ranasinghe, M. Naseer, S. Khan, F.S. Khan, and M. Ryoo, "Self-supervised video transformer", 2021, arXiv.2112.01514