Self-supervised Learning for Autonomous Vehicles

This lecture explores the concept of self-supervised learning for autonomous vehicles, focusing on deriving labels from data itself rather than human annotation. It discusses the limitations of deep supervised learning, the success of self-supervised learning, and the application of techniques like Word2Vec. The lecture delves into various self-supervised tasks such as denoising autoencoders, in-painting, and colorization, highlighting their importance in learning powerful representations from unlabeled data. It also covers topics like social contrastive learning and instance discrimination, showcasing their role in vision tasks. The lecture concludes by discussing challenges, test-time adaptation, and the potential of self-supervised learning to address distributional shift in autonomous vehicle applications.