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VideoMAE V2: Scaling Video Masked Autoencoders with Dual Masking

29 Mar 2023CVPR 2023 1arXiv:2303.16727archive 2025-07-28

LiMin Wang, Bingkun Huang, Zhiyu Zhao, Zhan Tong, Yinan He, Yi Wang, Yali Wang, Yu Qiao

Scale is the primary factor for building a powerful foundation model that could well generalize to a variety of downstream tasks. However, it is still challenging to train video foundation models with billions of parameters. This paper shows that video masked autoencoder (VideoMAE) is a scalable and general self-supervised pre-trainer for building video foundation models. We scale the VideoMAE in both model and data with a core design. Specifically, we present a dual masking strategy for efficient pre-training, with an encoder operating on a subset of video tokens and a decoder processing another subset of video tokens. Although VideoMAE is very efficient due to high masking ratio in encoder, masking decoder can still further reduce the overall computational cost. This enables the efficient pre-training of billion-level models in video. We also use a progressive training paradigm that involves an initial pre-training on a diverse multi-sourced unlabeled dataset, followed by a post-pre-training on a mixed labeled dataset. Finally, we successfully train a video ViT model with a billion parameters, which achieves a new state-of-the-art performance on the datasets of Kinetics (90.0% on K400 and 89.9% on K600) and Something-Something (68.7% on V1 and 77.0% on V2). In addition, we extensively verify the pre-trained video ViT models on a variety of downstream tasks, demonstrating its effectiveness as a general video representation learner. The code and model is available at \url{https://github.com/OpenGVLab/VideoMAEv2}.

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Action ClassificationAction RecognitionAction Recognition In VideosDecoderSelf-Supervised Action RecognitionSpatio-Temporal Action LocalizationTemporal Action Localization

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Action Classification Kinetics-400 VideoMAE V2-g (64x266x266) Acc@1 90.0 #12 of 207 Archive leaderboard report
Action Classification Kinetics-400 VideoMAE V2-g (64x266x266) Acc@5 98.4 #12 of 207 Archive leaderboard report
Action Classification Kinetics-400 VideoMAE V2-g Acc@1 88.5 #25 of 207 Archive leaderboard report
Action Classification Kinetics-400 VideoMAE V2-g Acc@5 98.1 #25 of 207 Archive leaderboard report
Action Classification Kinetics-600 VideoMAE V2-g (64x266x266) Top-1 Accuracy 89.9 #11 of 65 Archive leaderboard report
Action Classification Kinetics-600 VideoMAE V2-g (64x266x266) Top-5 Accuracy 98.5 #11 of 65 Archive leaderboard report
Action Classification Kinetics-600 VideoMAE V2-g Top-1 Accuracy 88.8 #17 of 65 Archive leaderboard report
Action Classification Kinetics-600 VideoMAE V2-g Top-5 Accuracy 98.2 #17 of 65 Archive leaderboard report
Action Recognition AVA v2.2 VideoMAE V2-g mAP 42.6 #3 of 38 Archive leaderboard report
Action Recognition HMDB-51 VideoMAE V2-g Average accuracy of 3 splits 88.7 #1 of 77 Archive leaderboard report
Action Recognition Something-Something V1 VideoMAE V2-g Top 1 Accuracy 68.7 #2 of 74 Archive leaderboard report
Action Recognition Something-Something V1 VideoMAE V2-g Top 5 Accuracy 91.9 #2 of 74 Archive leaderboard report
Action Recognition Something-Something V2 VideoMAE V2-g GFLOPs 2544x6 #5 of 123 Archive leaderboard report
Action Recognition Something-Something V2 VideoMAE V2-g Parameters 1013 #5 of 123 Archive leaderboard report
Action Recognition Something-Something V2 VideoMAE V2-g Top-1 Accuracy 77.0 #5 of 123 Archive leaderboard report
Action Recognition Something-Something V2 VideoMAE V2-g Top-5 Accuracy 95.9 #5 of 123 Archive leaderboard report
Action Recognition UCF101 VideoMAE V2-g 3-fold Accuracy 99.6 #2 of 91 Archive leaderboard report
Action Recognition In Videos AVA v2.2 VideoMAE V2 mAP (Val) 18.24 #2 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Self-Supervised Action Recognition UCF101 VideoMAE V2-g 3-fold Accuracy 99.6 #1 of 53 Archive leaderboard report
Spatio-Temporal Action Localization AVA-Kinetics VideoMAE V2-g val mAP 42.6 #1 of 7 Archive leaderboard report
Temporal Action Localization FineAction VideoMAE V2-g mAP 18.24 #5 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Temporal Action Localization FineAction VideoMAE V2-g mAP IOU@0.5 29.07 #5 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Temporal Action Localization FineAction VideoMAE V2-g mAP IOU@0.75 17.66 #5 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Temporal Action Localization FineAction VideoMAE V2-g mAP IOU@0.95 5.07 #5 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Temporal Action Localization THUMOS’14 ActionFormer (VideoMAE V2-g features) Avg mAP (0.3:0.7) 69.6 #8 of 42 Archive leaderboard report
Temporal Action Localization THUMOS’14 ActionFormer (VideoMAE V2-g features) mAP IOU@0.3 84.0 #8 of 42 Archive leaderboard report
Temporal Action Localization THUMOS’14 ActionFormer (VideoMAE V2-g features) mAP IOU@0.4 79.6 #8 of 42 Archive leaderboard report
Temporal Action Localization THUMOS’14 ActionFormer (VideoMAE V2-g features) mAP IOU@0.5 73.0 #8 of 42 Archive leaderboard report
Temporal Action Localization THUMOS’14 ActionFormer (VideoMAE V2-g features) mAP IOU@0.6 63.5 #8 of 42 Archive leaderboard report
Temporal Action Localization THUMOS’14 ActionFormer (VideoMAE V2-g features) mAP IOU@0.7 47.7 #8 of 42 Archive leaderboard report

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