M$^{3}$3D: Learning 3D priors using Multi-Modal Masked Autoencoders for
  2D image and video understanding
Muhammad Abdullah Jamal Omid Mohareri
We present a new pre-training strategy called M$^{3}$3D
($\underline{M}$ulti-$\underline{M}$odal $\underline{M}$asked $\underline{3D}$)
built based on Multi-modal masked autoencoders that can leverage 3D priors and
learned cross-modal representations in RGB-D data. We integrate two major
self-supervised learning frameworks; Masked Image Modeling (MIM) and
contrastive learning; aiming to effectively embed masked 3D priors and modality
complementary features to enhance the correspondence between modalities. In
contrast to recent approaches which are either focusing on specific downstream
tasks or require multi-view correspondence, we show that our pre-training
strategy is ubiquitous, enabling improved representation learning that can
transfer into improved performance on various downstream tasks such as video
action recognition, video action detection, 2D semantic segmentation and depth
estimation. Experiments show that M$^{3}$3D outperforms the existing
state-of-the-art approaches on ScanNet, NYUv2, UCF-101 and OR-AR, particularly
with an improvement of +1.3\% mIoU against Mask3D on ScanNet semantic
segmentation. We further evaluate our method on low-data regime and demonstrate
its superior data efficiency compared to current state-of-the-art approaches.