mmselfsup/configs/selfsup/rotation_pred/README.md

Rotation Prediction

Unsupervised Representation Learning by Predicting Image Rotation

Abstract

Over the last years, deep convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) have transformed the field of computer vision thanks to their unparalleled capacity to learn high level semantic image features. However, in order to successfully learn those features, they usually require massive amounts of manually labeled data, which is both expensive and impractical to scale. Therefore, unsupervised semantic feature learning, i.e., learning without requiring manual annotation effort, is of crucial importance in order to successfully harvest the vast amount of visual data that are available today. In our work we propose to learn image features by training ConvNets to recognize the 2d rotation that is applied to the image that it gets as input. We demonstrate both qualitatively and quantitatively that this apparently simple task actually provides a very powerful supervisory signal for semantic feature learning. We exhaustively evaluate our method in various unsupervised feature learning benchmarks and we exhibit in all of them state-of-the-art performance. Specifically, our results on those benchmarks demonstrate dramatic improvements w.r.t. prior state-of-the-art approaches in unsupervised representation learning and thus significantly close the gap with supervised feature learning.

Results and Models

Back to model_zoo.md to download models.

In this page, we provide benchmarks as much as possible to evaluate our pre-trained models. If not mentioned, all models are pre-trained on ImageNet-1k dataset.

Classification

The classification benchmarks includes 4 downstream task datasets, VOC, ImageNet, iNaturalist2018 and Places205. If not specified, the results are Top-1 (%).

VOC SVM / Low-shot SVM

The Best Layer indicates that the best results are obtained from which layers feature map. For example, if the Best Layer is feature3, its best result is obtained from the second stage of ResNet (1 for stem layer, 2-5 for 4 stage layers).

Besides, k=1 to 96 indicates the hyper-parameter of Low-shot SVM.

Self-Supervised Config	Best Layer	SVM	k=1	k=2	k=4	k=8	k=16	k=32	k=64	k=96
resnet50_8xb16-steplr-70e	feature4	67.70	20.60	24.35	31.41	39.17	46.56	53.37	59.14	62.42

ImageNet Linear Evaluation

The Feature1 - Feature5 don't have the GlobalAveragePooling, the feature map is pooled to the specific dimensions and then follows a Linear layer to do the classification. Please refer to resnet50_mhead_linear-8xb32-steplr-90e_in1k for details of config.

The AvgPool result is obtained from Linear Evaluation with GlobalAveragePooling. Please refer to resnet50_linear-8xb32-steplr-100e_in1k.py for details of config.

Self-Supervised Config	Feature1	Feature2	Feature3	Feature4	Feature5	AvgPool
resnet50_8xb16-steplr-70e	12.15	31.99	44.57	54.20	45.94	48.12

Places205 Linear Evaluation

The Feature1 - Feature5 don't have the GlobalAveragePooling, the feature map is pooled to the specific dimensions and then follows a Linear layer to do the classification. Please refer to resnet50_mhead_8xb32-steplr-28e_places205.py for details of config.

Self-Supervised Config	Feature1	Feature2	Feature3	Feature4	Feature5
resnet50_8xb16-steplr-70e	18.94	34.72	44.53	46.30	44.12

ImageNet Nearest-Neighbor Classification

The results are obtained from the features after GlobalAveragePooling. Here, k=10 to 200 indicates different number of nearest neighbors.

Self-Supervised Config	k=10	k=20	k=100	k=200
resnet50_8xb16-steplr-70e	11.0	11.9	12.6	12.4

Detection

The detection benchmarks includes 2 downstream task datasets, Pascal VOC 2007 + 2012 and COCO2017. This benchmark follows the evluation protocols set up by MoCo.

Pascal VOC 2007 + 2012

Please refer to faster_rcnn_r50_c4_mstrain_24k_voc0712.py for details of config.

Self-Supervised Config	AP50
resnet50_8xb16-steplr-70e	79.67

COCO2017

Please refer to mask_rcnn_r50_fpn_mstrain_1x_coco.py for details of config.

Self-Supervised Config	mAP(Box)	AP50(Box)	AP75(Box)	mAP(Mask)	AP50(Mask)	AP75(Mask)
resnet50_8xb16-steplr-70e	37.9	56.5	41.5	34.2	53.9	36.7

Segmentation

The segmentation benchmarks includes 2 downstream task datasets, Cityscapes and Pascal VOC 2012 + Aug. It follows the evluation protocols set up by MMSegmentation.

Pascal VOC 2012 + Aug

Please refer to fcn_r50-d8_512x512_20k_voc12aug.py for details of config.

Self-Supervised Config	mIOU
resnet50_8xb16-steplr-70e	64.31

Citation

@inproceedings{komodakis2018unsupervised,
  title={Unsupervised representation learning by predicting image rotations},
  author={Komodakis, Nikos and Gidaris, Spyros},
  booktitle={ICLR},
  year={2018}
}