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VirTex: Learning Visual Representations from Textual Annotations
The authors offer an alternative approach to pre-training backbones for CV tasks – using semantically dense captions to learn visual representations.
Recent methods have explored unsupervised pretraining to scale to vast quantities of unlabeled images. In contrast, the authors aim to learn high-quality visual representations from fewer images. They revisit supervised pretraining and seek data-efficient alternatives to classification-based pretraining.
VirTex (CNN + Transformer) is pre-trained on COCO captions. On downstream tasks it can reach performance similar to pre-training on ImageNet, but with 10x less images!
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06666
Code: https://github.com/kdexd/virtex
Site: https://kdexd.github.io/virtex/
#imagecaptioning #cv #visual #annotation #transformer #pretraining #transferlearning #deeplearning #paper
The authors offer an alternative approach to pre-training backbones for CV tasks – using semantically dense captions to learn visual representations.
Recent methods have explored unsupervised pretraining to scale to vast quantities of unlabeled images. In contrast, the authors aim to learn high-quality visual representations from fewer images. They revisit supervised pretraining and seek data-efficient alternatives to classification-based pretraining.
VirTex (CNN + Transformer) is pre-trained on COCO captions. On downstream tasks it can reach performance similar to pre-training on ImageNet, but with 10x less images!
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06666
Code: https://github.com/kdexd/virtex
Site: https://kdexd.github.io/virtex/
#imagecaptioning #cv #visual #annotation #transformer #pretraining #transferlearning #deeplearning #paper