Title
Self-Supervised Video Representation Learning by Uncovering Spatio-Temporal Statistics
Abstract
This paper proposes a novel pretext task to address the self-supervised video representation learning problem. Specifically, given an unlabeled video clip, we compute a series of spatio-temporal statistical summaries, such as the spatial location and dominant direction of the largest motion, the spatial location and dominant color of the largest color diversity along the temporal axis, <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">etc</i> . Then a neural network is built and trained to yield the statistical summaries given the video frames as inputs. In order to alleviate the learning difficulty, we employ several spatial partitioning patterns to encode rough spatial locations instead of exact spatial Cartesian coordinates. Our approach is inspired by the observation that human visual system is sensitive to rapidly changing contents in the visual field, and only needs impressions about rough spatial locations to understand the visual contents. To validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, we conduct extensive experiments with four 3D backbone networks, i.e., C3D, 3D-ResNet, R(2+1)D and S3D-G. The results show that our approach outperforms the existing approaches across these backbone networks on four downstream video analysis tasks including action recognition, video retrieval, dynamic scene recognition, and action similarity labeling. The source code is publicly available at: <uri xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">https://github.com/laura-wang/video_repres_sts</uri> .
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TPAMI.2021.3057833
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Algorithms,Humans,Motion,Neural Networks, Computer,Software
Journal
44
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
7
0162-8828
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
10
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jiangliu Wang1181.58
Jiao Jianbo2639.88
Linchao Bao31949.77
Shengfeng He440633.19
Wei Liu54041204.19
Liu YH61540185.05