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Human-Centric Visual Tasks
How many human-centric visual tasks are verified using SOLIDER?
Six human-centric visual tasks.
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Conditional Network Design
What is the purpose of the semantic controller in SOLIDER?
To handle the problem of adjusting the representation for specific tasks during pretext task training.
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Semantic Information vs. Appearance Information
What happens when a semantic part is occluded in the human image?
The model predicts its semantic meaning based on surrounding parts.
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Comparison with State-of-the-Art Methods
What advantage does DINO LUP1M provide over Sup ImageNet?
It brings an average improvement of 1.4 on five tasks, indicating the advantage of appearance information learned from DINO.
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Human-Centric Visual Tasks
What is the purpose of human pose estimation?
To locate human body skeletons from images.
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Comparison with State-of-the-Art Methods
What was the performance of HRFormer after switching to Swin backbone?
The performance reported was 75.9/81.1, which is lower than SOLIDER's 76.6/81.5.
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Semantic Controllable Learning
What is the role of the semantic controller in SOLIDER?
It allows the pre-trained model to be adjusted by an input value to produce representations with different ratios of semantic information.
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Self-Supervised Learning Framework
How does SOLIDER differ from existing self-supervised learning methods?
It utilizes prior knowledge from human images to build pseudo semantic labels and incorporate more semantic information into the learned representation.
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Human-Centric Visual Tasks
What is the purpose of human representations from SOLIDER?
To verify and promote the development of human-centric visual tasks in the computer vision community.
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Pseudo Semantic Labels Generation
How does SOLIDER generate pseudo semantic labels?
By taking advantage of prior knowledge from human images.
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Conditional Network Design
What is the significance of the λ value in downstream tasks?
It determines the balance between semantic and appearance information.
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Self-Supervised Learning Framework
What is the significance of using a binary distribution for λ?
It was found to perform the best, emphasizing the importance of sampling on two borders for training the controller.
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Evaluation Metrics for Visual Tasks
What is the total loss function for the SOLIDER framework?
L = αL dino + (1 - α)L sm, where α is a balance weight.
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Semantic Controllable Learning
How does the proposed SOLIDER generate pseudo semantic labels?
By using human prior knowledge and clustering token vectors from DINO representation.
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Downstream Task Performance
What is the impact of a large λ on pedestrian detection?
A large λ provides a better startup for pedestrian detection.
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Downstream Task Performance
What is the main issue with human parsing and pedestrian detection tasks?
They usually yield sub-optimal results due to the lack of semantic information in learned representations.
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Self-Supervised Learning Framework
What method is inspired by masked image modeling to enhance semantic information?
Masked semantic supervision.
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Conditional Network Design
What is the purpose of using K-means in the semantic clustering process?
To cluster tokens into categories based on their magnitude.
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Human-Centric Visual Tasks
Which human-centric visual tasks are highlighted in the paper?
Person re-identification, attribute recognition, person search, pedestrian detection, human parsing, and pose estimation.
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Comparison with State-of-the-Art Methods
Why is it challenging to adjust a pre-trained model for different downstream tasks?
Because it is hard to change its parameters after training.
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Semantic Controllable Learning
What is a limitation of using task tokens?
The number of task tokens must be pre-defined before learning representation.
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Downstream Task Performance
What dataset is mentioned as being significantly larger than ImageNet for person re-identification?
LUPerson dataset, which has approximately 4.18 million images.
What is the significance of the SOLIDER methodology in computer vision?
It aids in the advancement of human-centric tasks.
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Conditional Network Design
What role does the semantic controller play in SOLIDER?
It adjusts the ratio of semantic information in the representation based on input values.
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Self-Supervised Learning Framework
What distributions of λ were tested during training?
Binomial distribution B(p = 0.5), continuous uniform distribution U[0, 1], and beta distribution β(0.2, 0.2).
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Downstream Task Performance
What does the semantic head do in the framework?
Classifies vectors from the student branch based on semantic labels.
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Downstream Task Performance
What is the focus of the paper by Irtiza Hasan et al. in CVPR 2021?
Generalizable pedestrian detection.
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Conditional Network Design
What is the main topic of the paper by Shuting He et al. in 2021?
Transformer-based object re-identification.
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Semantic Information vs. Appearance Information
What issue arises from clustering based solely on visual appearance?
It can lead to misalignment of semantic meanings, grouping similar appearances together instead of semantically similar items.
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Conditional Network Design
What additional clustering is introduced to improve the results?
Background and foreground clustering to reduce noise disturbance.
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Conditional Network Design
What is the purpose of the semantic controller in model training?
To control the ratio of semantic information in representation.
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Semantic Controllable Learning
What are the four main contributions of the paper?
1) Learning a general human representation; 2) Proposing the SOLIDER framework; 3) Designing a semantic controller; 4) Verifying the effectiveness of SOLIDER on downstream tasks.
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Self-Supervised Learning Framework
What is the main contribution of the SOLIDER framework?
It proposes a semantic controllable self-supervised learning framework that utilizes prior knowledge from human images to train representations with more semantic information.
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Downstream Task Performance
What tasks were the pre-trained model from SOLIDER verified on?
Person re-identification, attribute recognition, person search, pedestrian detection, human parsing, and pose estimation.
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Comparison with State-of-the-Art Methods
In person re-identification, how does SOLIDER perform compared to other self-supervised works?
SOLIDER achieves better performance than other self-supervised works like TransReID and PASS, even without side information.
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Comparison with State-of-the-Art Methods
Why did PedesFormer outperform SOLIDER in pedestrian detection?
PedesFormer utilized extra data from autonomous driving datasets, which are specific for pedestrian detection tasks.
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Conditional Network Design
What does the paper by Ze Liu et al. introduce?
Swin transformer: Hierarchical vision transformer using shifted windows.
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Downstream Task Performance
What is the relationship between λ and person re-identification performance?
As λ increases, person re-identification performance decreases.
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Downstream Task Performance
What is the effect of involving semantic information in pre-trained models?
It generally improves performance on most downstream tasks.
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Downstream Task Performance
What is the focus of the 1st place solution to VISDA-2020?
Bias elimination for domain adaptive pedestrian re-identification.
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Human-Centric Visual Tasks
What is the significance of person search in video surveillance?
It aims to find a probe person from the whole scene, which is crucial for tracking lost people.
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Conditional Network Design
What is a potential solution for adjusting pre-trained models for different tasks?
Task tokens, which pre-set an extra one-hot token for each task.
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Downstream Task Performance
What is the focus of the research by Zhengjia Li and Duoqian Miao in 2021?
Sequential end-to-end network for efficient person search.
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Self-Supervised Learning Framework
What is the main contribution of the paper by Hao Luo et al. in 2021?
Self-supervised pre-training for transformer-based person re-identification.
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Semantic Information vs. Appearance Information
Why can't a single learned representation fit all downstream tasks?
Different downstream tasks require different ratios of semantic information and appearance information.
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Downstream Task Performance
What does 'Sup' imply in the context of pre-trained models?
It implies supervised training.
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Semantic Controllable Learning
What does the continuous value λ represent in the semantic controller?
The required ratio of semantic information in the representation.
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Human-Centric Visual Tasks
What does attribute recognition aim to do?
Mine the attributes of target people from given person images.
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Downstream Task Performance
How does SOLIDER improve performance on human-centric tasks?
By involving semantic information, SOLIDER raises the average performance to 74.9 across five tasks.
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Evaluation Metrics for Visual Tasks
What evaluation metrics are used for person re-identification?
mAP (mean Average Precision) and Rank1.
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Evaluation Metrics for Visual Tasks
What does a small intra-image distance and large inter-image distance suggest?
It indicates that appearance information is dominant in the representation.
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Downstream Task Performance
On how many downstream human-centric visual tasks was SOLIDER verified?
Six downstream human-centric visual tasks.
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Self-Supervised Learning Framework
What does the SOLIDER framework aim to improve?
It aims to train representations with more semantic information for human-centric visual tasks.
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Conditional Network Design
How is the output of the semantic controller generated?
By encoding λ into a weight vector and a bias vector, applying a Softplus activation function, and then modifying the original feature maps.
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Self-Supervised Learning Framework
What is the main contribution of the paper by Hao Guo et al. in CVPR 2019?
Visual attention consistency under image transforms for multi-label image classification.
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Self-Supervised Learning Framework
What do Kaiming He et al. propose in their 2022 CVPR paper?
Masked autoencoders as scalable vision learners.
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Semantic Information vs. Appearance Information
What does the paper by Yiqi Jiang et al. explore?
The quality of GAN-generated images for person re-identification.
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Semantic Controllable Learning
What happens to feature distribution before introducing SOLIDER?
Features tend to gather by appearance rather than semantic meaning.
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Self-Supervised Learning Framework
What is the main goal of the SOLIDER framework?
To learn a general human representation from massive unlabeled human images for downstream human-centric tasks.
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Human-Centric Visual Tasks
What types of applications benefit from human-centric visual analysis?
Surveillance, sports, augmented reality, and video production.
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Semantic Controllable Learning
What are the three semantic parts into which foreground tokens are clustered?
Upper body, lower body, and shoes.
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Self-Supervised Learning Framework
What is the goal of contrastive learning in self-supervised methods?
To minimize the distances between two augmented views of the same image and distinguish each image from others.
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Semantic Information vs. Appearance Information
What is the primary challenge in person re-identification according to the study?
The key clue is appearance information, which is already well learned in DINO.
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Evaluation Metrics for Visual Tasks
What is the significance of the mAP criterion in the context of SOLIDER?
The mAP criterion reflects the detection ability of models, indicating that SOLIDER's pre-trained model leads to better detection results.
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Semantic Controllable Learning
What are the four parts into which features are split according to their semantic regions?
Upper body, lower body, shoes, and background.
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Semantic Controllable Learning
What is the effect of SOLIDER on feature distribution?
It brings features with similar semantic meanings closer together, regardless of appearance.
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Conditional Network Design
What is the role of the conditional network in SOLIDER?
It introduces a semantic controller that allows users to produce representations with varying ratios of semantic information for different downstream tasks.
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Human-Centric Visual Tasks
What is the main goal of person re-identification?
To retrieve a person of interest across multiple non-overlapping cameras.
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Semantic Information vs. Appearance Information
What is a limitation of masked image modeling methods in relation to semantic information?
They cannot explicitly figure out the semantic information from the image to supervise training.
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Human-Centric Visual Tasks
What is the focus of pedestrian detection?
Detecting people in general images.
What optimizer is used during the pretext task training?
SGD (Stochastic Gradient Descent).
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Pseudo Semantic Labels Generation
How are the pseudo semantic labels assigned in SOLIDER?
Based on the order of y-axis coordinates in human images, labeling the top part as upper body and the bottom part as shoes.
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Evaluation Metrics for Visual Tasks
What do intra-image and inter-image distances indicate?
Intra-image distance measures similarity within the same image, while inter-image distance measures similarity across different images with the same semantic meaning.
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Self-Supervised Learning Framework
What does SOLIDER stand for?
Semantic cOntrollable seLf-supervIseD lEaRning framework.
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Downstream Task Performance
What does '+Clustering' indicate in the training of models?
It indicates training with semantic supervision.
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Semantic Information vs. Appearance Information
Why did the performance on person re-identification decline after involving semantic supervision?
The model became more inclined to represent semantic information, weakening its ability to distinguish different identities.
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Evaluation Metrics for Visual Tasks
What algorithm is introduced by John A Hartigan and Manchek A Wong in 1979?
A k-means clustering algorithm.
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Human-Centric Visual Tasks
What does human parsing aim to understand?
Human-body parts on a pixel level.
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Self-Supervised Learning Framework
What is the role of DINO in the proposed SOLIDER?
It serves as a state-of-the-art self-supervised learning method for image representation.
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Conditional Network Design
How does model size affect performance in SOLIDER?
With increasing model size in Swin-Transformer backbones, performance is further improved.
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Evaluation Metrics for Visual Tasks
How does increasing the semantic weight λ affect intra-image and inter-image distances?
Intra-image distance increases while inter-image distance decreases, indicating more semantic information is involved.
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Self-Supervised Learning Framework
What is a challenge in building human representations from unlabeled data?
Effectively using unlabeled data to benefit various downstream tasks.
