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Image classification is an essential part of computer vision which assigns a given input image to a specific category based on the similarity evaluation within given criteria. While promising classifiers can be obtained through deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Emma Andrews , Prabhat Mishra

In the realm of music information retrieval, similarity-based retrieval and auto-tagging serve as essential components. Given the limitations and non-scalability of human supervision signals, it becomes crucial for models to learn from…

As many algorithms depend on a suitable representation of data, learning unique features is considered a crucial task. Although supervised techniques using deep neural networks have boosted the performance of representation learning, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Milad Sikaroudi , Amir Safarpoor , Benyamin Ghojogh , Sobhan Shafiei , Mark Crowley , H. R. Tizhoosh

Metric learning from a set of triplet comparisons in the form of "Do you think item h is more similar to item i or item j?", indicating similarity and differences between items, plays a key role in various applications including image…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-07 Gokcan Tatli , Yi Chen , Blake Mason , Robert Nowak , Ramya Korlakai Vinayak

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has demonstrated its effectiveness in learning representations through comparison methods that align with human intuition. However, mainstream SSL methods heavily rely on high body datasets with single label,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jiale Chen

This work presents a new strategy for multi-class classification that requires no class-specific labels, but instead leverages pairwise similarity between examples, which is a weaker form of annotation. The proposed method, meta…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Yen-Chang Hsu , Zhaoyang Lv , Joel Schlosser , Phillip Odom , Zsolt Kira

Self-supervised learning for depth estimation possesses several advantages over supervised learning. The benefits of no need for ground-truth depth, online fine-tuning, and better generalization with unlimited data attract researchers to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Weihao Yuan , Yazhan Zhang , Bingkun Wu , Siyu Zhu , Ping Tan , Michael Yu Wang , Qifeng Chen

Change detection (CD) is an important yet challenging task in the Earth observation field for monitoring Earth surface dynamics. The advent of deep learning techniques has recently propelled automatic CD into a technological revolution.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Haonan Guo , Bo Du , Chen Wu , Chengxi Han , Liangpei Zhang

The task of large-scale retrieval-based image localization is to estimate the geographical location of a query image by recognizing its nearest reference images from a city-scale dataset. However, the general public benchmarks only provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Yixiao Ge , Haibo Wang , Feng Zhu , Rui Zhao , Hongsheng Li

We address the problem of learning self-supervised representations from unlabeled image collections. Unlike existing approaches that attempt to learn useful features by maximizing similarity between augmented versions of each input image or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Omiros Pantazis , Gabriel Brostow , Kate Jones , Oisin Mac Aodha

A key challenge for machine intelligence is to learn new visual concepts without forgetting the previously acquired knowledge. Continual learning is aimed towards addressing this challenge. However, there is a gap between existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Yan Luo , Yongkang Wong , Mohan Kankanhalli , Qi Zhao

Recently, contrastive learning has achieved great results in self-supervised learning, where the main idea is to push two augmentations of an image (positive pairs) closer compared to other random images (negative pairs). We argue that not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Ajinkya Tejankar , Soroush Abbasi Koohpayegani , Vipin Pillai , Paolo Favaro , Hamed Pirsiavash

Metric learning seeks to embed images of objects suchthat class-defined relations are captured by the embeddingspace. However, variability in images is not just due to different depicted object classes, but also depends on other latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Karsten Roth , Biagio Brattoli , Björn Ommer

Self-supervised learning enables networks to learn discriminative features from massive data itself. Most state-of-the-art methods maximize the similarity between two augmentations of one image based on contrastive learning. By utilizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-05 Jidong Ge , Yuxiang Liu , Jie Gui , Lanting Fang , Ming Lin , James Tin-Yau Kwok , LiGuo Huang , Bin Luo

This paper presents a new self-supervised system for learning to detect novel and previously unseen categories of objects in images. The proposed system receives as input several unlabeled videos of scenes containing various objects. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Juntao Tan , Changkyu Song , Abdeslam Boularias

Contrastive loss and triplet loss are widely used objectives in deep metric learning, yet their effects on representation quality remain insufficiently understood. We present a theoretical and empirical comparison of these losses, focusing…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Donghuo Zeng

We present a novel hierarchical triplet loss (HTL) capable of automatically collecting informative training samples (triplets) via a defined hierarchical tree that encodes global context information. This allows us to cope with the main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Weifeng Ge , Weilin Huang , Dengke Dong , Matthew R. Scott

The accurate tracking of live cells using video microscopy recordings remains a challenging task for popular state-of-the-art image processing based object tracking methods. In recent years, several existing and new applications have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-03 Gergely Szabó , Paolo Bonaiuti , Andrea Ciliberto , András Horváth

In apparel recognition, specialized models (e.g. models trained for a particular vertical like dresses) can significantly outperform general models (i.e. models that cover a wide range of verticals). Therefore, deep neural network models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Yang Song , Yuan Li , Bo Wu , Chao-Yeh Chen , Xiao Zhang , Hartwig Adam

We present a deep learning approach for learning the joint semantic embeddings of images and captions in a Euclidean space, such that the semantic similarity is approximated by the L2 distances in the embedding space. For that, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Noam Malali , Yosi Keller