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Proxy Synthesis: Learning with Synthetic Classes for Deep Metric Learning

Official PyTorch implementation of "Proxy Synthesis: Learning with Synthetic Classes for Deep Metric Learning" (AAAI 2021)

Geonmo Gu*1, Byungsoo Ko*1, Han-Gyu Kim2 (* Authors contributed equally.)

1@NAVER/LINE Vision, 2@NAVER Clova Speech

Overview

Proxy Synthesis

  • Proxy Synthesis (PS) is a novel regularizer for any softmax variants and proxy-based losses in deep metric learning.

How it works?

  • Proxy Synthesis exploits synthetic classes and improves generalization by considering class relations and obtaining smooth decision boundaries.
  • Synthetic classes mimic unseen classes during training phase as described in below Figure.

Experimental results

  • Proxy Synthesis improves performance for every loss and benchmark dataset.

Getting Started

Installation

  1. Clone the repository locally
$ git clone https://github.com/navervision/proxy-synthesis
  1. Create conda virtual environment
$ conda create -n proxy_synthesis python=3.7 anaconda
$ conda activate proxy_synthesis
  1. Install pytorch
$ conda install pytorch torchvision cudatoolkit=<YOUR_CUDA_VERSION> -c pytorch
  1. Install faiss
$ conda install faiss-gpu cudatoolkit=<YOUR_CUDA_VERSION> -c pytorch
  1. Install requirements
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Prepare Data

  • Download CARS196 dataset and unzip
$ wget http://ai.stanford.edu/~jkrause/car196/cars_annos.mat
$ tar zxvf car_ims.tgz -C ./dataset
  • Rearrange CARS196 directory by following structure
# Dataset structure
/dataset/carDB/
  train/
    class1/
      img1.jpeg
    class2/
      img2.jpeg
  test/
    class1/
      img3.jpeg
    class2/
      img4.jpeg
# Rearrange dataset structure
$ python dataset/prepare_cars.py

Train models

Norm-SoftMax loss with CARS196

# Norm-SoftMax
$ python main.py --gpu=0 \
--save_path=./logs/CARS196_norm_softmax \
--data=./dataset/carDB --data_name=cars196 \
--dim=512 --batch_size=128 --epochs=130 \
--freeze_BN --loss=Norm_SoftMax \
--decay_step=50 --decay_stop=50 --n_instance=1 \
--scale=23.0 --check_epoch=5

PS + Norm-SoftMax loss with CARS196

# PS + Norm-SoftMax
$ python main.py --gpu=0 \
--save_path=./logs/CARS196_PS_norm_softmax \
--data=./dataset/carDB --data_name=cars196 \
 --dim=512 --batch_size=128 --epochs=130 \
--freeze_BN --loss=Norm_SoftMax \
--decay_step=50 --decay_stop=50 --n_instance=1 \
--scale=23.0 --check_epoch=5 \
--ps_alpha=0.40 --ps_mu=1.0

Proxy-NCA loss with CARS196

# Proxy-NCA
$ python main.py --gpu=0 \
--save_path=./logs/CARS196_proxy_nca \
--data=./dataset/carDB --data_name=cars196 \
--dim=512 --batch_size=128 --epochs=130 \
--freeze_BN --loss=Proxy_NCA \
--decay_step=50 --decay_stop=50 --n_instance=1 \
--scale=12.0 --check_epoch=5

PS + Proxy-NCA loss with CARS196

# PS + Proxy-NCA
$ python main.py --gpu=0 \
--save_path=./logs/CARS196_PS_proxy_nca \
--data=./dataset/carDB --data_name=cars196 \
--dim=512 --batch_size=128 --epochs=130 \
--freeze_BN --loss=Proxy_NCA \
--decay_step=50 --decay_stop=50 --n_instance=1 \
--scale=12.0 --check_epoch=5 \
--ps_alpha=0.40 --ps_mu=1.0

Check Test Results

$ tensorboard --logdir=logs --port=10000

Experimental results

  • We report Recall@1, RP and MAP performances of each loss, which are trained with CARS196 dataset for 8 runs.

Recall@1

Loss 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Mean ± std
Norm-SoftMax 83.38 83.25 83.25 83.18 83.05 82.90 82.83 82.79 83.08 ± 0.21
PS + Norm-SoftMax 84.69 84.58 84.45 84.35 84.22 83.95 83.91 83.89 84.25 ± 0.31
Proxy-NCA 83.74 83.69 83.62 83.32 83.06 83.00 82.97 82.84 83.28 ± 0.36
PS + Proxy-NCA 84.52 84.39 84.32 84.29 84.22 84.12 83.94 83.88 84.21 ± 0.21

RP

Loss 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Mean ± std
Norm-SoftMax 35.85 35.51 35.28 35.28 35.24 34.95 34.87 34.84 35.23 ± 0.34
PS + Norm-SoftMax 37.01 36.98 36.92 36.74 36.74 36.73 36.54 36.45 36.76 ± 0.20
Proxy-NCA 36.08 35.85 35.79 35.66 35.66 35.63 35.47 35.43 35.70 ± 0.21
PS + Proxy-NCA 36.97 36.84 36.72 36.64 36.63 36.60 36.43 36.41 36.66 ± 0.18

MAP

Loss 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Mean ± std
Norm-SoftMax 25.56 25.56 25.00 24.93 24.90 24.59 24.57 24.56 24.92 ± 0.35
PS + Norm-SoftMax 26.71 26.67 26.65 26.56 26.53 26.52 26.30 26.17 26.51 ± 0.18
Proxy-NCA 25.66 25.52 25.37 25.36 25.33 25.26 25.22 25.04 25.35 ± 0.18
PS + Proxy-NCA 26.77 26.63 26.50 26.42 26.37 26.31 26.25 26.12 26.42 ± 0.20

Performance Graph

  • Below figure shows performance graph of test set during training.

Reference

  • Our code is based on SoftTriple repository (Arxiv, Github)

Citation

If you find Proxy Synthesis useful in your research, please consider to cite the following paper.

@inproceedings{gu2020proxy,
    title={Proxy Synthesis: Learning with Synthetic Classes for Deep Metric Learning},
    author={Geonmo Gu, Byungsoo Ko, and Han-Gyu Kim},
    booktitle={Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
    year={2021}
}

License

Copyright 2021-present NAVER Corp.

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you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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