Efficient Image Pre-Training with Siamese Cropped Masked Autoencoders

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Autores principales: Eymaël, Alexandre, Vandeghen, Renaud, Cioppa, Anthony, Giancola, Silvio, Ghanem, Bernard, Van Droogenbroeck, Marc
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author Eymaël, Alexandre
Vandeghen, Renaud
Cioppa, Anthony
Giancola, Silvio
Ghanem, Bernard
Van Droogenbroeck, Marc
author_facet Eymaël, Alexandre
Vandeghen, Renaud
Cioppa, Anthony
Giancola, Silvio
Ghanem, Bernard
Van Droogenbroeck, Marc
contents Self-supervised pre-training of image encoders is omnipresent in the literature, particularly following the introduction of Masked autoencoders (MAE). Current efforts attempt to learn object-centric representations from motion in videos. In particular, SiamMAE recently introduced a Siamese network, training a shared-weight encoder from two frames of a video with a high asymmetric masking ratio (95%). In this work, we propose CropMAE, an alternative approach to the Siamese pre-training introduced by SiamMAE. Our method specifically differs by exclusively considering pairs of cropped images sourced from the same image but cropped differently, deviating from the conventional pairs of frames extracted from a video. CropMAE therefore alleviates the need for video datasets, while maintaining competitive performances and drastically reducing pre-training and learning time. Furthermore, we demonstrate that CropMAE learns similar object-centric representations without explicit motion, showing that current self-supervised learning methods do not learn such representations from explicit object motion, but rather thanks to the implicit image transformations that occur between the two views. Finally, CropMAE achieves the highest masking ratio to date (98.5%), enabling the reconstruction of images using only two visible patches. Our code is available at https://github.com/alexandre-eymael/CropMAE.
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spellingShingle Efficient Image Pre-Training with Siamese Cropped Masked Autoencoders
Eymaël, Alexandre
Vandeghen, Renaud
Cioppa, Anthony
Giancola, Silvio
Ghanem, Bernard
Van Droogenbroeck, Marc
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
I.2.6; I.2.10
Self-supervised pre-training of image encoders is omnipresent in the literature, particularly following the introduction of Masked autoencoders (MAE). Current efforts attempt to learn object-centric representations from motion in videos. In particular, SiamMAE recently introduced a Siamese network, training a shared-weight encoder from two frames of a video with a high asymmetric masking ratio (95%). In this work, we propose CropMAE, an alternative approach to the Siamese pre-training introduced by SiamMAE. Our method specifically differs by exclusively considering pairs of cropped images sourced from the same image but cropped differently, deviating from the conventional pairs of frames extracted from a video. CropMAE therefore alleviates the need for video datasets, while maintaining competitive performances and drastically reducing pre-training and learning time. Furthermore, we demonstrate that CropMAE learns similar object-centric representations without explicit motion, showing that current self-supervised learning methods do not learn such representations from explicit object motion, but rather thanks to the implicit image transformations that occur between the two views. Finally, CropMAE achieves the highest masking ratio to date (98.5%), enabling the reconstruction of images using only two visible patches. Our code is available at https://github.com/alexandre-eymael/CropMAE.
title Efficient Image Pre-Training with Siamese Cropped Masked Autoencoders
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
I.2.6; I.2.10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17823