A curated list of awesome Self-Supervised Learning resources. Inspired by awesome-deep-vision, awesome-adversarial-machine-learning, awesome-deep-learning-papers, and awesome-architecture-search

Self-Supervised Learning has become an exciting direction in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Robotics community. These are some of the awesome resources!

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- Paper Name. 
  [[pdf]](link) 
  [[code]](link)
  - Author 1, Author 2, and Author 3. *Conference Year*

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• Dec.1: NIPS'18 papers added!
• Jul.29: ECCV'18 papers updated!

• Computer Vision
  • Image Representation Learning
  • Video Representation Learning
  • Geometry
  • Audio
  • Others
• Machine Learning
  • Reinforcement Learning
• Robotics
• Talks

• Unsupervised Visual Representation Learning by Context Prediction. [pdf] [code]

  • Doersch, Carl and Gupta, Abhinav and Efros, Alexei A. ICCV 2015

• Unsupervised Learning of Visual Representations using Videos. [pdf] [code]

  • Wang, Xiaolong and Gupta, Abhinav. ICCV 2015

• Learning to See by Moving. [pdf] [code]

  • Agrawal, Pulkit and Carreira, Joao and Malik, Jitendra. ICCV 2015

• Learning image representations tied to ego-motion. [pdf] [code]

  • Jayaraman, Dinesh and Grauman, Kristen. ICCV 2015

• Joint Unsupervised Learning of Deep Representations and Image Clusters. [pdf] [code-torch] [code-caffe]

  • Jianwei Yang, Devi Parikh, Dhruv Batra. CVPR 2016

• Unsupervised Deep Embedding for Clustering Analysis. [pdf] [code]

  • Junyuan Xie, Ross Girshick, and Ali Farhadi. ICML 2016

• Slow and steady feature analysis: higher order temporal coherence in video. [pdf]

  • Jayaraman, Dinesh and Grauman, Kristen. CVPR 2016

• Context Encoders: Feature Learning by Inpainting. [pdf] [code]

  • Pathak, Deepak and Krahenbuhl, Philipp and Donahue, Jeff and Darrell, Trevor and Efros, Alexei A. CVPR 2016

• Colorful Image Colorization. [pdf] [code]

  • Zhang, Richard and Isola, Phillip and Efros, Alexei A. ECCV 2016

• Unsupervised Learning of Visual Representations by Solving Jigsaw Puzzles. [pdf] [code]

  • Noroozi, Mehdi and Favaro, Paolo. ECCV 2016

• Ambient Sound Provides Supervision for Visual Learning. [pdf] [code]

  • Owens, Andrew and Wu, Jiajun and McDermott, Josh and Freeman, William and Torralba, Antonio. ECCV 2016

• Learning Representations for Automatic Colorization. [pdf] [code]

  • Larsson, Gustav and Maire, Michael and Shakhnarovich, Gregory. ECCV 2016

• Unsupervised Visual Representation Learning by Graph-based Consistent Constraints. [pdf] [code]

  • Li, Dong and Hung, Wei-Chih and Huang, Jia-Bin and Wang, Shengjin and Ahuja, Narendra and Yang, Ming-Hsuan. ECCV 2016

• Adversarial Feature Learning. [pdf] [code]

  • Donahue, Jeff and Krahenbuhl, Philipp and Darrell, Trevor. ICLR 2017

• Self-supervised learning of visual features through embedding images into text topic spaces. [pdf] [code]

  • L. Gomez* and Y. Patel* and M. Rusiñol and D. Karatzas and C.V. Jawahar. CVPR 2017

• Split-Brain Autoencoders: Unsupervised Learning by Cross-Channel Prediction. [pdf] [code]

  • Zhang, Richard and Isola, Phillip and Efros, Alexei A. CVPR 2017

• Learning Features by Watching Objects Move. [pdf] [code]

  • Pathak, Deepak and Girshick, Ross and Dollar, Piotr and Darrell, Trevor and Hariharan, Bharath. CVPR 2017

• Colorization as a Proxy Task for Visual Understanding. [pdf] [code]

  • Larsson, Gustav and Maire, Michael and Shakhnarovich, Gregory. CVPR 2017

• DeepPermNet: Visual Permutation Learning. [pdf] [code]

  • Cruz, Rodrigo Santa and Fernando, Basura and Cherian, Anoop and Gould, Stephen. CVPR 2017

• Unsupervised Learning by Predicting Noise. [pdf] [code]

  • Bojanowski, Piotr and Joulin, Armand. ICML 2017

• Multi-task Self-Supervised Visual Learning. [pdf]

  • Doersch, Carl and Zisserman, Andrew. ICCV 2017

• Representation Learning by Learning to Count. [pdf]

  • Noroozi, Mehdi and Pirsiavash, Hamed and Favaro, Paolo. ICCV 2017

• Transitive Invariance for Self-supervised Visual Representation Learning. [pdf]

  • Wang, Xiaolong and He, Kaiming and Gupta, Abhinav. ICCV 2017

• Look, Listen and Learn. [pdf]

  • Relja, Arandjelovic and Zisserman, Andrew. ICCV 2017

• Unsupervised Representation Learning by Sorting Sequences. [pdf] [code]

  • Hsin-Ying Lee, Jia-Bin Huang, Maneesh Kumar Singh, and Ming-Hsuan Yang. ICCV 2017

• Learning Image Representations by Completing Damaged Jigsaw Puzzles. [pdf]

  • Kim, Dahun and Cho, Donghyeon and Yoo, Donggeun and Kweon, In So. WACV 2018

• Unsupervised Representation Learning by Predicting Image Rotations. [pdf] [code]

  • Spyros Gidaris and Praveer Singh and Nikos Komodakis. ICLR 2018

• Improvements to context based self-supervised learning. [pdf]

  • Terrell Mundhenk and Daniel Ho and Barry Chen. CVPR 2018

• Self-Supervised Feature Learning by Learning to Spot Artifacts.

  • Simon Jenni and Universität Bern and Paolo Favaro. CVPR 2018

• Boosting Self-Supervised Learning via Knowledge Transfer. [pdf]

  • Mehdi Noroozi and Ananth Vinjimoor and Paolo Favaro and Hamed Pirsiavash. CVPR 2018

• Cross-domain Self-supervised Multi-task Feature Learning Using Synthetic Imagery. [pdf] [code]

  • Zhongzheng Ren and Yong Jae Lee. CVPR 2018

• ShapeCodes: Self-Supervised Feature Learning by Lifting Views to Viewgrids. [pdf]

  • Dinesh Jayaraman*, UC Berkeley; Ruohan Gao, University of Texas at Austin; Kristen Grauman. ECCV 2018

• Deep Clustering for Unsupervised Learning of Visual Features [pdf]

  • Mathilde Caron, Piotr Bojanowski, Armand Joulin, Matthijs Douze. ECCV 2018

• Cross Pixel Optical-Flow Similarity for Self-Supervised Learning. [pdf]

  • Aravindh Mahendran, James Thewlis, Andrea Vedaldi. ACCV 2018

• Unsupervised Learning of Video Representations using LSTMs. [pdf] [code]

  • Srivastava, Nitish and Mansimov, Elman and Salakhudinov, Ruslan. ICML 2015

• Shuffle and Learn: Unsupervised Learning using Temporal Order Verification. [pdf] [code]

  • Ishan Misra, C. Lawrence Zitnick and Martial Hebert. ECCV 2016

• LSTM Self-Supervision for Detailed Behavior Analysis [pdf]

  • Biagio Brattoli*, Uta Büchler*, Anna-Sophia Wahl, Martin E. Schwab, and Björn Ommer. CVPR 2017

• Self-Supervised Video Representation Learning With Odd-One-Out Networks. [pdf]

  • Basura Fernando and Hakan Bilen and Efstratios Gavves and Stephen Gould. CVPR 2017

• Unsupervised Learning of Long-Term Motion Dynamics for Videos. [pdf]

  • Luo, Zelun and Peng, Boya and Huang, De-An and Alahi, Alexandre and Fei-Fei, Li. CVPR 2017

• Geometry Guided Convolutional Neural Networks for Self-Supervised Video Representation Learning. [pdf]

  • Chuang Gan and Boqing Gong and Kun Liu and Hao Su and Leonidas J. Guibas. CVPR 2018

• Improving Spatiotemporal Self-Supervision by Deep Reinforcement Learning. [pdf]

  • Biagio Brattoli*, Uta Büchler*, and Björn Ommer. ECCV 2018

• Self-Supervised Video Representation Learning with Space-Time Cubic Puzzles. [pdf]

  • Kim, Dahun and Cho, Donghyeon and Yoo, Donggeun and Kweon, In So. AAAI 2019

• Self-supervised Learning of Motion Capture. [pdf] [code] [web]

  • Tung, Hsiao-Yu and Tung, Hsiao-Wei and Yumer, Ersin and Fragkiadaki, Katerina. NIPS 2017

• Unsupervised Learning of Depth and Ego-Motion from Video. [pdf] [code] [web]

  • Zhou, Tinghui and Brown, Matthew and Snavely, Noah and Lowe, David G. CVPR 2017

• Active Stereo Net: End-to-End Self-Supervised Learning for Active Stereo Systems. [project]

  • Yinda Zhang*, Sean Fanello, Sameh Khamis, Christoph Rhemann, Julien Valentin, Adarsh Kowdle, Vladimir Tankovich, Shahram Izadi, Thomas Funkhouser. ECCV 2018

• Self-Supervised Relative Depth Learning for Urban Scene Understanding. [pdf] [project]

  • Huaizu Jiang*, Erik Learned-Miller, Gustav Larsson, Michael Maire, Greg Shakhnarovich. ECCV 2018

• Audio-Visual Scene Analysis with Self-Supervised Multisensory Features. [pdf] [code]

  • Andrew Owens, Alexei A. Efros. ECCV 2018

• Objects that Sound. [pdf]

  • R. Arandjelović, A. Zisserman. ECCV 2018

• Learning to Separate Object Sounds by Watching Unlabeled Video. [pdf] [project]

  • Ruohan Gao, Rogerio Feris, Kristen Grauman. ECCV 2018

• Cooperative Learning of Audio and Video Models from Self-Supervised Synchronization. [pdf]

  • Bruno Korbar,Dartmouth College, Du Tran, Lorenzo Torresani. NIPS 2018

• Self-Supervised Generation of Spatial Audio for 360° Video. [pdf]

  • Pedro Morgado, Nuno Nvasconcelos, Timothy Langlois, Oliver Wang. NIPS 2018

• Self-learning Scene-specific Pedestrian Detectors using a Progressive Latent Model. [pdf]

  • Qixiang Ye, Tianliang Zhang, Qiang Qiu, Baochang Zhang, Jie Chen, Guillermo Sapiro. CVPR 2017

• Free Supervision from Video Games. [pdf] [project+code]

  • Philipp Krähenbühl. CVPR 2018

• Fighting Fake News: Image Splice Detection via Learned Self-Consistency [pdf] [code]

  • Minyoung Huh*, Andrew Liu*, Andrew Owens, Alexei A. Efros. ECCV 2018

• Self-supervised Tracking by Colorization (Tracking Emerges by Colorizing Videos). [pdf]

  • Carl Vondrick*, Abhinav Shrivastava, Alireza Fathi, Sergio Guadarrama, Kevin Murphy. ECCV 2018

• Self-taught Learning: Transfer Learning from Unlabeled Data. [pdf]

  • Raina, Rajat and Battle, Alexis and Lee, Honglak and Packer, Benjamin and Ng, Andrew Y. ICML 2007

• Representation Learning: A Review and New Perspectives. [pdf]

  • Bengio, Yoshua and Courville, Aaron and Vincent, Pascal. TPAMI 2013.

• Curiosity-driven Exploration by Self-supervised Prediction. [pdf] [code]

  • Deepak Pathak, Pulkit Agrawal, Alexei A. Efros, and Trevor Darrell. ICML 2017

• Large-Scale Study of Curiosity-Driven Learning. [pdf]

  • Yuri Burda*, Harri Edwards*, Deepak Pathak*, Amos Storkey, Trevor Darrell and Alexei A. Efros

• Playing hard exploration games by watching YouTube. [pdf]

  • Yusuf Aytar, Tobias Pfaff, David Budden, Tom Le Paine, Ziyu Wang, Nando de Freitas. NIPS 2018

• Online self-supervised learning for dynamic object segmentation [pdf]
  • Vitor Guizilini and Fabio Ramos, The International Journal of Robotics Research

• The Curious Robot: Learning Visual Representations via Physical Interactions. [pdf]

  • Lerrel Pinto and Dhiraj Gandhi and Yuanfeng Han and Yong-Lae Park and Abhinav Gupta. ECCV 2016

• Learning to Poke by Poking: Experiential Learning of Intuitive Physics. [pdf]

  • Agrawal, Pulkit and Nair, Ashvin V and Abbeel, Pieter and Malik, Jitendra and Levine, Sergey. NIPS 2016

• Supersizing Self-supervision: Learning to Grasp from 50K Tries and 700 Robot Hours. [pdf]

  • Pinto, Lerrel and Gupta, Abhinav. ICRA 2016

• Supervision via Competition: Robot Adversaries for Learning Tasks. [pdf]

  • Pinto, Lerrel and Davidson, James and Gupta, Abhinav. ICRA 2017

• Multi-view Self-supervised Deep Learning for 6D Pose Estimation in the Amazon Picking Challenge. [pdf] [Project]

  • Andy Zeng, Kuan-Ting Yu, Shuran Song, Daniel Suo, Ed Walker Jr., Alberto Rodriguez, Jianxiong Xiao. ICRA 2017

• Time-Contrastive Networks: Self-Supervised Learning from Video. [pdf] [Project]

  • Pierre Sermanet and Corey Lynch and Yevgen Chebotar and Jasmine Hsu and Eric Jang and Stefan Schaal and Sergey Levine. ICRA 2018

• Learning Synergies between Pushing and Grasping with Self-supervised Deep Reinforcement Learning. [pdf] [Project]

  • Andy Zeng, Shuran Song, Stefan Welker, Johnny Lee, Alberto Rodriguez, Thomas Funkhouser. IROS 2018

• Learning Long-Range Perception Using Self-Supervision from Short-Range Sensors and Odometry [pdf]
  • Mirko Nava, Jerome Guzzi, R. Omar Chavez-Garcia, Luca M. Gambardella, Alessandro Giusti

• Supersizing Self-Supervision: Learning Perception and Action without Human Supervision. Abhinav Gupta (CMU) [link]
• Self-supervision, Meta-supervision, Curiosity: Making Computers Study Harder. Alyosha Efros (UCB) [link]
• Unsupervised Visual Learning Tutorial. CVPR 2018 [part 1] [part 2]

• Supervision Beyond Manual Annotations for Learning Visual Representations. Carl Doersch. [pdf].
• Image Synthesis for Self-Supervised Visual Representation Learning. Richard Zhang. [pdf].
• Visual Learning beyond Direct Supervision. Tinghui Zhou. [pdf].
• Visual Learning with Minimal Human Supervision. Ishan Misra. [pdf].

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