Exploring Fine-Grained Audiovisual Categorization with the SSW60 Dataset

Grant Van Horn, Rui Qian, Kimberly Wilber, Hartwig Adam, Oisin Mac Aodha, Serge Belongie

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Abstract

We present a new benchmark dataset, Sapsucker Woods 60 (SSW60), for advancing research on audiovisual fine-grained categorization. While our community has made great strides in fine-grained visual categorization on images, the counterparts in audio and video fine-grained categorization are relatively unexplored. To encourage advancements in this space, we have carefully constructed the SSW60 dataset to enable researchers to experiment with classifying the same set of categories in three different modalities: images, audio, and video. The dataset covers 60 species of birds and is comprised of images from existing datasets, and brand new, expert-curated audio and video datasets. We thoroughly benchmark audiovisual classification performance and modality fusion experiments through the use of state-of-the-art transformer methods. Our findings show that performance of audiovisual fusion methods is better than using exclusively image or audio based methods for the task of video classification. We also present interesting modality transfer experiments, enabled by the unique construction of SSW60 to encompass three different modalities. We hope the SSW60 dataset and accompanying baselines spur research in this fascinating area.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision 2022
PublisherEuropean Computer Vision Association (ECVA)
Number of pages27
Publication statusPublished - 23 Oct 2022
EventEuropean Conference on Computer Vision 2022 - Israel, Tel Aviv, Israel
Duration: 23 Oct 202227 Oct 2022
https://eccv2022.ecva.net/

Conference

ConferenceEuropean Conference on Computer Vision 2022
Abbreviated titleECCV 2022
Country/TerritoryIsrael
CityTel Aviv
Period23/10/2227/10/22
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Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • multi-modal learning
  • fine-grained
  • audio
  • video

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