Samuel Albanie

Samuel Albanie

Machine Learning, Computer Vision and NLP Research

DINO: Self-distillation with no labels


Summary: A video digest of the DINO framework, introduced in the work "Emerging properties in self-supervised vision transformers" by M. Caron, H. Touvron, I. Misra, H. Jégou, J. Mairal, P. Bojanowski and A. Joulin, published at ICCV in 2021. This paper can be found on arxiv here. Code and models can be found here.
Topics: computer vision, self-supervised learning, vision transformers
Slides: link (pdf)

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