Self-supervision

Training and evaluating self-supervised deep neural networks.

• http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~larsson/color-proxy

Models

These models were all trained entirely without labeled data using colorization as a proxy task:

• AlexNet
• VGG-16
• ResNet-152

The models are saved in Caffe HDF5 files. Our evaluation code in TensorFlow can load these files. The AlexNet model uses LRN (applied before pooling)

Paper

• Colorization as a Proxy Task for Visual Understanding, Larsson, Maire, Shakhnarovich, CVPR 2017 (https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.04044)