Unsupervised Image Classification for Deep Representation LearningDownload PDF

Published: 29 Jul 2020, Last Modified: 05 May 2023VIPriors PosterReaders: Everyone
Keywords: Representation Learning, Unsupervised Learning
TL;DR: We propose a simple yet effective unsupervised image classification framework for visual representation learning, which simplifies DeepCluster by discarding embedding clustering.
Abstract: Deep clustering against self-supervised learning (SSL) is a very important and promising direction for unsupervised visual representation learning since it requires little domain knowledge to design pretext tasks. However, the key component, embedding clustering, limits its extension to the extremely large-scale dataset due to its prerequisite to save the global latent embedding of the entire dataset. In this work, we aim to make this framework more simple and elegant without performance decline. We propose an unsupervised image classification framework without using embedding clustering, which is very similar to standard supervised training manner. For detailed interpretation, we further analyze its relation with deep clustering and contrastive learning. Extensive experiments on ImageNet dataset have been conducted to prove the effectiveness of our method. Furthermore, the experiments on transfer learning benchmarks have verified its generalization to other downstream tasks, including multi-label image classification, object detection, semantic segmentation and few-shot image classification.
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