Towards a Hypothesis on Visual Transformation based Self-Supervision

• Main Authors: Pal, Dipan K, Nallamothu, Sreena, Savvides, Marios
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 24.11.2019
• Subjects: Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition; Computer Science - Learning; Statistics - Machine Learning

We propose the first qualitative hypothesis characterizing the behavior of visual transformation based self-supervision, called the VTSS hypothesis. Given a dataset upon which a self-supervised task is performed while predicting instantiations of a transformation, the hypothesis states that if the p...