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Given a large unlabeled set of images, how to efficiently and effectively group them into clusters based on extracted visual representations remains a challenging problem. To address this problem, we propose a convolutional neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-14 Chih-Chung Hsu , Chia-Wen Lin

Unsupervised clustering is one of the most fundamental challenges in machine learning. A popular hypothesis is that data are generated from a union of low-dimensional nonlinear manifolds; thus an approach to clustering is identifying and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Dejiao Zhang , Yifan Sun , Brian Eriksson , Laura Balzano

While convolution and self-attention are extensively used in learned image compression (LIC) for transform coding, this paper proposes an alternative called Contextual Clustering based LIC (CLIC) which primarily relies on clustering…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-23 Yichi Zhang , Zhihao Duan , Ming Lu , Dandan Ding , Fengqing Zhu , Zhan Ma

Image clustering is a very useful technique that is widely applied to various areas, including remote sensing. Recently, visual representations by self-supervised learning have greatly improved the performance of image clustering. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Qinglin Li , Guoping Qiu

Deep neural networks have recently achieved state of the art performance thanks to new training algorithms for rapid parameter estimation and new regularization methods to reduce overfitting. However, in practice the network architecture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-04 Minyoung Kim , Luca Rigazio

We introduce FAEclust, a novel functional autoencoder framework for cluster analysis of multi-dimensional functional data, data that are random realizations of vector-valued random functions. Our framework features a universal-approximator…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Samuel Singh , Shirley Coyle , Mimi Zhang

In this paper, we propose a recurrent framework for Joint Unsupervised LEarning (JULE) of deep representations and image clusters. In our framework, successive operations in a clustering algorithm are expressed as steps in a recurrent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Jianwei Yang , Devi Parikh , Dhruv Batra

Clustering is a fundamental task in the computer vision and machine learning community. Although various methods have been proposed, the performance of existing approaches drops dramatically when handling incomplete high-dimensional data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Mingjie Luo , Siwei Wang , Xinwang Liu , Wenxuan Tu , Yi Zhang , Xifeng Guo , Sihang Zhou , En Zhu

The advent of large pre-trained models has brought about a paradigm shift in both visual representation learning and natural language processing. However, clustering unlabeled images, as a fundamental and classic machine learning problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Tianzhe Chu , Shengbang Tong , Tianjiao Ding , Xili Dai , Benjamin David Haeffele , René Vidal , Yi Ma

The high dimensional and semantically complex nature of textual Big data presents significant challenges for text clustering, which frequently lead to suboptimal groupings when using conventional techniques like k-means or hierarchical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Mohammad Wali Ur Rahman , Ric Nevarez , Lamia Tasnim Mim , Salim Hariri

In the era of pre-trained models, image clustering task is usually addressed by two relevant stages: a) to produce features from pre-trained vision models; and b) to find clusters from the pre-trained features. However, these two stages are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 W. He , Z. Huang , X. Meng , X. Qi , R. Xiao , C. -G. Li

We present MIX'EM, a novel solution for unsupervised image classification. MIX'EM generates representations that by themselves are sufficient to drive a general-purpose clustering algorithm to deliver high-quality classification. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Ali Varamesh , Tinne Tuytelaars

This paper presents a new regularization method to train a fully convolutional network for semantic tissue segmentation in histopathological images. This method relies on the benefit of unsupervised learning, in the form of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-26 C. T. Sari , C. Sokmensuer , C. Gunduz-Demir

Deep clustering which adopts deep neural networks to obtain optimal representations for clustering has been widely studied recently. In this paper, we propose a novel deep image clustering framework to learn a category-style latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Junjie Zhao , Donghuan Lu , Kai Ma , Yu Zhang , Yefeng Zheng

The mixture model is undoubtedly one of the greatest contributions to clustering. For continuous data, Gaussian models are often used and the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm is particularly suitable for estimating parameters from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-25 Zineddine Tighidet , Lazhar Labiod , Mohamed Nadif

Clustering is widely used in unsupervised learning method that deals with unlabeled data. Deep clustering has become a popular study area that relates clustering with Deep Neural Network (DNN) architecture. Deep clustering method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Abu Quwsar Ohi , M. F. Mridha , Farisa Benta Safir , Md. Abdul Hamid , Muhammad Mostafa Monowar

Spectral clustering is a leading and popular technique in unsupervised data analysis. Two of its major limitations are scalability and generalization of the spectral embedding (i.e., out-of-sample-extension). In this paper we introduce a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-06 Uri Shaham , Kelly Stanton , Henry Li , Boaz Nadler , Ronen Basri , Yuval Kluger

We present Contextualized Local Visual Embeddings (CLoVE), a self-supervised convolutional-based method that learns representations suited for dense prediction tasks. CLoVE deviates from current methods and optimizes a single loss function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Thalles Santos Silva , Helio Pedrini , Adín Ramírez Rivera

The paper introduces the weighted convolution, a novel approach to the convolution for signals defined on regular grids (e.g., 2D images) through the application of an optimal density function to scale the contribution of neighbouring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Simone Cammarasana , Giuseppe Patanè

We propose a deep clustering architecture alongside image segmentation for medical image analysis. The main idea is based on unsupervised learning to cluster images on severity of the disease in the subject's sample, and this image is then…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-28 Sharmin Pathan , Anant Tripathi