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Poster
Aligning Pretraining for Detection via Object-Level Contrastive Learning
Fangyun Wei · Yue Gao · Zhirong Wu · Han Hu · Stephen Lin

Tue Dec 07 08:30 AM -- 10:00 AM (PST) @
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Image-level contrastive representation learning has proven to be highly effective as a generic model for transfer learning. Such generality for transfer learning, however, sacrifices specificity if we are interested in a certain downstream task. We argue that this could be sub-optimal and thus advocate a design principle which encourages alignment between the self-supervised pretext task and the downstream task. In this paper, we follow this principle with a pretraining method specifically designed for the task of object detection. We attain alignment in the following three aspects: 1) object-level representations are introduced via selective search bounding boxes as object proposals; 2) the pretraining network architecture incorporates the same dedicated modules used in the detection pipeline (e.g. FPN); 3) the pretraining is equipped with object detection properties such as object-level translation invariance and scale invariance. Our method, called Selective Object COntrastive learning (SoCo), achieves state-of-the-art results for transfer performance on COCO detection using a Mask R-CNN framework. Code is available at https://github.com/hologerry/SoCo.

Keywords: Vision · Contrastive Learning · Representation Learning · Transfer Learning

Author Information

Fangyun Wei (Microsoft Research Asia)
Yue Gao (Microsoft Research Asia)
Zhirong Wu (Microsoft)
Han Hu (Microsoft Research Asia)
Stephen Lin (Microsoft Research)

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