VideoMAE: Masked Autoencoders are Data-Efficient Learners for Self-Supervised Video Pre-Training
Zhan Tong, Yibing Song, Jue Wang, Limin Wang
Nanjing University, Tencent AI Lab

[2022.7.7] We have updated new results on downstream AVA 2.2 benckmark. Please refer to our paper for details.
[2022.4.24] Code and pre-trained models are available now! Please leave a star⭐️ for our best efforts.😆
[2022.4.15] The LICENSE of this project has been upgraded to CC-BY-NC 4.0.
[2022.3.24] Code and pre-trained models will be released here. Welcome to watch this repository for the latest updates.

VideoMAE performs the task of masked video modeling for video pre-training. We propose the extremely high masking ratio (90%-95%) and tube masking strategy to create a challenging task for self-supervised video pre-training.

VideoMAE uses the simple masked autoencoder and plain ViT backbone to perform video self-supervised learning. Due to the extremely high masking ratio, the pre-training time of VideoMAE is much shorter than contrastive learning methods (3.2x speedup). VideoMAE can serve as a simple but strong baseline for future research in self-supervised video pre-training.

VideoMAE works well for video datasets of different scales and can achieve 85.8% on Kinects-400, 75.3% on Something-Something V2, 90.8% on UCF101, and 61.1% on HMDB51. To our best knowledge, VideoMAE is the first to achieve the state-of-the-art performance on these four popular benchmarks with the vanilla ViT backbones while doesn't need any extra data or pre-trained models.

Please follow the instructions in INSTALL.md.

Please follow the instructions in DATASET.md for data preparation.

The pre-training instruction is in PRETRAIN.md.

The fine-tuning instruction is in FINETUNE.md.

We provide pre-trained and fine-tuned models in MODEL_ZOO.md.

We provide the script for visualization in vis.sh. Colab notebook for better visualization is coming soon.

Zhan Tong: [email protected]

Thanks to Ziteng Gao, Lei Chen and Chongjian Ge for their kindly support.
This project is built upon MAE-pytorch and BEiT. Thanks to the contributors of these great codebases.

The majority of this project is released under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 license as found in the LICENSE file. Portions of the project are available under separate license terms: SlowFast and pytorch-image-models are licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. BEiT is licensed under the MIT license.

If you think this project is helpful, please feel free to leave a star⭐️ and cite our paper:

@article{videomae,
  title={VideoMAE: Masked Autoencoders are Data-Efficient Learners for Self-Supervised Video Pre-Training},
  author={Tong, Zhan and Song, Yibing and Wang, Jue and Wang, Limin},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.12602},
  year={2022}
}