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Seeing voices and hearing voices: learning discriminative embeddings using cross-modal self-supervision
The goal of this work is to train discriminative cross-modal embeddings
without access to manually annotated data. Recent advances in self-supervised
learning have shown that effective representations can be learnt from natural
cross-modal synchrony. We build on earlier work to train embeddings that are
more discriminative for uni-modal downstream tasks. To this end, we propose a
novel training strategy that not only optimises metrics across modalities, but
also enforces intra-class feature separation within each of the modalities. The
effectiveness of the method is demonstrated on two downstream tasks: lip
reading using the features trained on audio-visual synchronisation, and speaker
recognition using the features trained for cross-modal biometric matching. The
proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art self-supervised baselines by a
signficant margin.Comment: Under submission as a conference pape
CanvasGAN: A simple baseline for text to image generation by incrementally patching a canvas
We propose a new recurrent generative model for generating images from text
captions while attending on specific parts of text captions. Our model creates
images by incrementally adding patches on a "canvas" while attending on words
from text caption at each timestep. Finally, the canvas is passed through an
upscaling network to generate images. We also introduce a new method for
generating visual-semantic sentence embeddings based on self-attention over
text. We compare our model's generated images with those generated Reed et.
al.'s model and show that our model is a stronger baseline for text to image
generation tasks.Comment: CVC 201
Interpretable and Generalizable Person Re-Identification with Query-Adaptive Convolution and Temporal Lifting
For person re-identification, existing deep networks often focus on
representation learning. However, without transfer learning, the learned model
is fixed as is, which is not adaptable for handling various unseen scenarios.
In this paper, beyond representation learning, we consider how to formulate
person image matching directly in deep feature maps. We treat image matching as
finding local correspondences in feature maps, and construct query-adaptive
convolution kernels on the fly to achieve local matching. In this way, the
matching process and results are interpretable, and this explicit matching is
more generalizable than representation features to unseen scenarios, such as
unknown misalignments, pose or viewpoint changes. To facilitate end-to-end
training of this architecture, we further build a class memory module to cache
feature maps of the most recent samples of each class, so as to compute image
matching losses for metric learning. Through direct cross-dataset evaluation,
the proposed Query-Adaptive Convolution (QAConv) method gains large
improvements over popular learning methods (about 10%+ mAP), and achieves
comparable results to many transfer learning methods. Besides, a model-free
temporal cooccurrence based score weighting method called TLift is proposed,
which improves the performance to a further extent, achieving state-of-the-art
results in cross-dataset person re-identification. Code is available at
https://github.com/ShengcaiLiao/QAConv.Comment: This is the ECCV 2020 version, including the appendi
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