Patch-Level Contrasting without Patch Correspondence for Accurate and Dense Contrastive Representation Learning
This work addresses the need for efficient and simple dense contrastive learning methods in computer vision, offering incremental improvements over existing approaches.
The paper tackles the problem of learning accurate and dense vision representations in self-supervised learning by proposing ADCLR, which introduces query patches for contrasting without requiring patch correspondence. The result includes state-of-the-art performance, such as 77.5% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet with ViT-S and improvements of up to 2.2% AP on object detection in MS-COCO.
We propose ADCLR: A ccurate and D ense Contrastive Representation Learning, a novel self-supervised learning framework for learning accurate and dense vision representation. To extract spatial-sensitive information, ADCLR introduces query patches for contrasting in addition with global contrasting. Compared with previous dense contrasting methods, ADCLR mainly enjoys three merits: i) achieving both global-discriminative and spatial-sensitive representation, ii) model-efficient (no extra parameters in addition to the global contrasting baseline), and iii) correspondence-free and thus simpler to implement. Our approach achieves new state-of-the-art performance for contrastive methods. On classification tasks, for ViT-S, ADCLR achieves 77.5% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet with linear probing, outperforming our baseline (DINO) without our devised techniques as plug-in, by 0.5%. For ViT-B, ADCLR achieves 79.8%, 84.0% accuracy on ImageNet by linear probing and finetune, outperforming iBOT by 0.3%, 0.2% accuracy. For dense tasks, on MS-COCO, ADCLR achieves significant improvements of 44.3% AP on object detection, 39.7% AP on instance segmentation, outperforming previous SOTA method SelfPatch by 2.2% and 1.2%, respectively. On ADE20K, ADCLR outperforms SelfPatch by 1.0% mIoU, 1.2% mAcc on the segme