leiloong/SoftTriple

PyTorch Implementation for SoftTriple Loss

SoftTriple Loss

PyTorch Implementation for ICCV'19: "SoftTriple Loss: Deep Metric Learning Without Triplet Sampling"

Usage: Train on Cars196

Here is an example of using this package.

1. Obtain dataset

wget http://imagenet.stanford.edu/internal/car196/car_ims.tgz
tar -xf car_ims.tgz

2. Generate train/test sets

python genCars.py

3. Learn 64-dimensional embeddings

python train.py --gpu 0 --dim 64 -C 98 --freeze_BN [folder with train and test folders]

Requirements

• Python 3.7
• PyTorch 1.1
• scikit-learn 0.20.1

Citation

If you use the package in your research, please cite the paper:

@inproceedings{qian2019striple,
  author    = {Qi Qian and
               Lei Shang and
               Baigui Sun and
               Juhua Hu and
               Hao Li and
               Rong Jin},
  title     = {SoftTriple Loss: Deep Metric Learning Without Triplet Sampling},
  booktitle = {{IEEE} International Conference on Computer Vision, {ICCV} 2019},
  year      = {2019}
}