Discriminative Unsupervised Feature Learning with Convolutional Neural Networks

Current methods for training convolutional neural networks depend on large amounts of labeled samples for supervised training. In this paper we present an approach for training a convolutional neural network using only unlabeled data. We train the network to discriminate between a set of surrogate classes. Each surrogate class is formed by applying a variety of transformations to a randomly sampled 'seed' image patch. We find that this simple feature learning algorithm is surprisingly successful when applied to visual object recognition. The feature representation learned by our algorithm achieves classification results matching or outperforming the current state-of-the-art for unsupervised learning on several popular datasets (STL-10, CIFAR-10, Caltech-101).

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Benchmark
Image Classification CIFAR-10 Discriminative Unsupervised Feature Learning with Convolutional Neural Networks Percentage correct 82 # 227
Image Classification STL-10 Discriminative Unsupervised Feature Learning with Convolutional Neural Networks Percentage correct 72.8 # 84

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