TBE

The source code for our paper "Removing the Background by Adding the Background: Towards Background Robust Self-supervised Video Representation Learning" [arxiv] [code][Project Website]

Citation

@inproceedings{wang2021removing,
  title={Removing the Background by Adding the Background: Towards Background Robust Self-supervised Video Representation Learning},
  author={Wang, Jinpeng and Gao, Yuting and Li, Ke and Lin, Yiqi and Ma, Andy J and Cheng, Hao and Peng, Pai and Ji, Rongrong and Sun, Xing},
  booktitle={CVPR},
  year={2021}
}

News

[2020.3.7] The first version of TBE are released!

0. Motivation

• In camera-fixed situation, the static background in most frames remain similar in pixel-distribution.

• We ask the model to be temporal sensitive rather than static sensitive.

• We ask model to filter the additive Background Noise, which means to erasing background in each frame of the video.

Activation Map Visualization of BE

GIF

More hard example

2. Plug BE into any self-supervised learning method in two steps

The impementaion of BE is very simple, you can implement it in two lines by python:

rand_index = random.randint(t)
mixed_x[j] = (1-prob) * x + prob * x[rand_index]

Then, just need define a loss function like MSE:

loss = MSE(F(mixed_x),F(x))

2. Installation

Dataset Prepare

Please refer to [dataset.md] for details.

Requirements

• Python3
• pytorch1.1+
• PIL
• Intel (on the fly decode)
• Skvideo.io
• Matplotlib (gradient_check)

As Kinetics dataset is time-consuming for IO, we decode the avi/mpeg on the fly. Please refer to data/video_dataset.py for details.

3. Structure

• datasets
  • list
    • hmdb51: the train/val lists of HMDB51/Actor-HMDB51
    • hmdb51_sta: the train/val lists of HMDB51_STA
    • ucf101: the train/val lists of UCF101
    • kinetics-400: the train/val lists of kinetics-400
    • diving48: the train/val lists of diving48
• experiments
  • logs: experiments record in detials, include logs and trained models
  • gradientes:
  • visualization:
  • pretrained_model:
• src
  • Contrastive
    • data: load data
    • loss: the loss evaluate in this paper
    • model: network architectures
    • scripts: train/eval scripts
    • augmentation: detail implementation of BE augmentation
    • utils
    • feature_extract.py: feature extractor given pretrained model
    • main.py: the main function of pretrain / finetune
    • trainer.py
    • option.py
    • pt.py: BE pretrain
    • ft.py: BE finetune
  • Pretext
    • main.py the main function of pretrain / finetune
    • loss: the loss include classification loss

4. Run

(1). Download dataset lists and pretrained model

A copy of both dataset lists is provided in anonymous. The Kinetics-pretrained models are provided in anonymous.

cd .. && mkdir datasets
mv [path_to_lists] to datasets
mkdir experiments && cd experiments
mkdir pretrained_models && logs
mv [path_to_pretrained_model] to ../experiments/pretrained_model

Download and extract frames of Actor-HMDB51.

wget -c  anonymous
unzip
python utils/data_process/gen_hmdb51_dir.py
python utils/data_process/gen_hmdb51_frames.py

(2). Network Architecture

The network is in the folder src/model/[].py

All the logits_channel are feed into a fc layer with 128-D output.

For simply, we divide the source into Contrastive and Pretext, "--method pt_and_ft" means pretrain and finetune in once.

Action Recognition

Random Initialization

For random initialization baseline. Just comment --weights in line 11 of ft.sh. Like below:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
python main.py \
--method ft --arch i3d \
--ft_train_list ../datasets/lists/diving48/diving48_v2_train_no_front.txt \
--ft_val_list ../datasets/lists/diving48/diving48_v2_test_no_front.txt \
--ft_root /data1/DataSet/Diving48/rgb_frames/ \
--ft_dataset diving48 --ft_mode rgb \
--ft_lr 0.001 --ft_lr_steps 10 20 25 30 35 40 --ft_epochs 45 --ft_batch_size 4 \
--ft_data_length 64 --ft_spatial_size 224 --ft_workers 4 --ft_stride 1 --ft_dropout 0.5 \
--ft_print-freq 100 --ft_fixed 0 # \
# --ft_weights ../experiments/kinetics_contrastive.pth

BE(Contrastive)

Kinetics

bash scripts/kinetics/pt_and_ft.sh

UCF101

bash scripts/ucf101/ucf101.sh

Diving48

bash scripts/Diving48/diving48.sh

For Triplet loss optimization and moco baseline, just modify --pt_method

BE (Triplet)

--pt_method be_triplet

BE(Pretext)

bash scripts/hmdb51/i3d_pt_and_ft_flip_cls.sh

or

bash scripts/hmdb51/c3d_pt_and_ft_flip.sh

Notice: More Training Options and ablation study can be find in scripts

Video Retrieve and other visualization

(1). Feature Extractor

As STCR can be easily extend to other video representation task, we offer the scripts to perform feature extract.

python feature_extractor.py

The feature will be saved as a single numpy file in the format [video_nums,features_dim] for further visualization.

(2). Reterival Evaluation

modify line60-line62 in reterival.py.

python reterival.py

Results

Action Recognition

Kinetics Pretrained (I3D)

Video Retrieve (HMDB51-C3D)

More Visualization

T-SNE

please refer to utils/visualization/t_SNE_Visualization.py for details.

Confusion_Matrix

please refer to utils/visualization/confusion_matrix.py for details.

Acknowledgement

This work is partly based on UEL and MoCo.

License

The code are released under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 LICENSE.