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Broaden Your Views for Self-Supervised Video Learning

30 Mar 2021ICCV 2021 10arXiv:2103.16559archive 2025-07-28

Adrià Recasens, Pauline Luc, Jean-Baptiste Alayrac, Luyu Wang, Ross Hemsley, Florian Strub, Corentin Tallec, Mateusz Malinowski, Viorica Patraucean, Florent Altché, Michal Valko, Jean-bastien Grill, Aäron van den Oord, Andrew Zisserman

Most successful self-supervised learning methods are trained to align the representations of two independent views from the data. State-of-the-art methods in video are inspired by image techniques, where these two views are similarly extracted by cropping and augmenting the resulting crop. However, these methods miss a crucial element in the video domain: time. We introduce BraVe, a self-supervised learning framework for video. In BraVe, one of the views has access to a narrow temporal window of the video while the other view has a broad access to the video content. Our models learn to generalise from the narrow view to the general content of the video. Furthermore, BraVe processes the views with different backbones, enabling the use of alternative augmentations or modalities into the broad view such as optical flow, randomly convolved RGB frames, audio or their combinations. We demonstrate that BraVe achieves state-of-the-art results in self-supervised representation learning on standard video and audio classification benchmarks including UCF101, HMDB51, Kinetics, ESC-50 and AudioSet.

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Audio ClassificationOptical Flow EstimationRepresentation LearningSelf-Supervised Action RecognitionSelf-Supervised Audio ClassificationSelf-Supervised Learning

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Self-Supervised Action Recognition HMDB51 BraVe:V-FA (TSM-50x2) Frozen false #6 of 48 Archive leaderboard report
Self-Supervised Action Recognition HMDB51 BraVe:V-FA (TSM-50x2) Top-1 Accuracy 70.5 #6 of 48 Archive leaderboard report
Self-Supervised Action Recognition HMDB51 (finetuned) BraVe:V-FA (TSM-50x2) Top-1 Accuracy 77.8 #1 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
Self-Supervised Action Recognition Kinetics-600 BraVe:V-FA (TSM-50x2) Top-1 Accuracy 71.4 #3 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Self-Supervised Action Recognition UCF101 BraVe:V-FA (TSM-50x2) 3-fold Accuracy 93.1 #15 of 53 Archive leaderboard report
Self-Supervised Action Recognition UCF101 BraVe:V-FA (TSM-50x2) Frozen false #15 of 53 Archive leaderboard report
Self-Supervised Action Recognition UCF101 (finetuned) BraVe:V-FA (TSM-50x2) 3-fold Accuracy 95.7 #1 of 14 Archive leaderboard report

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