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We propose a novel deep clustering method that integrates Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) into the Expectation-Maximization (EM) framework. Our approach models the probability distribution of each cluster with a VAE and alternates between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Michael Adipoetra , Ségolène Martin

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) methods, like Masked Autoencoders (MAE), efficiently learn a rich representation of the input. However, for adapting to downstream tasks, they require a sufficient amount of labeled data since their rich features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Johannes Lehner , Benedikt Alkin , Andreas Fürst , Elisabeth Rumetshofer , Lukas Miklautz , Sepp Hochreiter

Galaxy cluster-scale strong gravitational lensing systems are rare yet valuable tools for investigating the properties of dark matter and dark energy, as well as providing the opportunity to study the distant universe at flux levels and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-19 Zhejian Zhang , Nan Li , Shude Mao , Hu Zou , Zizhao He , Mingxiang Fu , Shenzhe Cui

Clustering is essential to many tasks in pattern recognition and computer vision. With the advent of deep learning, there is an increasing interest in learning deep unsupervised representations for clustering analysis. Many works on this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Caglar Aytekin , Xingyang Ni , Francesco Cricri , Emre Aksu

Machine learning and in particular deep learning algorithms are the emerging approaches to data analysis. These techniques have transformed traditional data mining-based analysis radically into a learning-based model in which existing data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Neda Tavakoli , Sima Siami-Namini , Mahdi Adl Khanghah , Fahimeh Mirza Soltani , Akbar Siami Namin

In this work, we update the unsupervised machine learning (UML) step by proposing an algorithm based on ConvNeXt large model coding to improve the efficiency of unlabeled galaxy morphology classifications. The method can be summarized into…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-03 Guanwen Fang , Yao Dai , Zesen Lin , Chichun Zhou , Jie Song , Yizhou Gu , Xiaotong Guo , Anqi Mao , Xu Kong

As established in previous papers of this series, observables in highly distorted and magnified multiple images caused by the strong gravitational lensing effect can be used to constrain the distorting properties of the gravitational lens…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Joyce Lin , Jenny Wagner , Richard E. Griffiths

This paper introduces a novel weighted unsupervised learning for object detection using an RGB-D camera. This technique is feasible for detecting the moving objects in the noisy environments that are captured by an RGB-D camera. The main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Kamran Kowsari , Manal H. Alassaf

The clustering methods have recently absorbed even-increasing attention in learning and vision. Deep clustering combines embedding and clustering together to obtain optimal embedding subspace for clustering, which can be more effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Xu Yang , Cheng Deng , Feng Zheng , Junchi Yan , Wei Liu

Self-lensing (SL) represents a powerful technique for detecting compact objects in binary systems through gravitational microlensing effects, when a compact companion transits in front of its luminous partner. We present the first…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-06 Grzegorz Wiktorowicz , Matthew Middleton , Mirek Giersz , Adam Ingram , Adam McMaster , Abbas Askar , Lucas Hellström

Recent developed deep unsupervised methods allow us to jointly learn representation and cluster unlabelled data. These deep clustering methods mainly focus on the correlation among samples, e.g., selecting high precision pairs to gradually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Jianlong Wu , Keyu Long , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Cheng Li , Zhouchen Lin , Hongbin Zha

Unsupervised learning algorithms are beginning to achieve accuracies comparable to their supervised counterparts on benchmark computer vision tasks, but their utility for practical applications has not yet been demonstrated. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Jeremiah W. Johnson , Swathi Hari , Donald Hampton , Hyunju K. Connor , Amy Keesee

In the era of large-scale surveys like Euclid, machine learning has become an essential tool for identifying rare yet scientifically valuable objects, such as strong gravitational lenses. However, supervised machine-learning approaches…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-08 Euclid Collaboration , N. E. P. Lines , T. E. Collett , P. Holloway , K. Rojas , S. Schuldt , R. B. Metcalf , T. Li , A. Verma , G. Despali , F. Courbin , R. Gavazzi , C. Tortora , B. Clément , N. Aghanim , B. Altieri , L. Amendola , S. Andreon , N. Auricchio , C. Baccigalupi , M. Baldi , A. Balestra , S. Bardelli , P. Battaglia , A. Biviano , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , S. Camera , G. Cañas-Herrera , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , J. Carretero , M. Castellano , G. Castignani , S. Cavuoti , A. Cimatti , C. Colodro-Conde , G. Congedo , C. J. Conselice , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , H. M. Courtois , M. Cropper , H. Degaudenzi , G. De Lucia , H. Dole , F. Dubath , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , A. Ealet , S. Escoffier , M. Farina , R. Farinelli , F. Faustini , S. Ferriol , F. Finelli , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , M. Fumana , S. Galeotta , K. George , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , P. Gómez-Alvarez , J. Gracia-Carpio , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , S. V. H. Haugan , W. Holmes , I. M. Hook , F. Hormuth , A. Hornstrup , K. Jahnke , M. Jhabvala , B. Joachimi , E. Keihänen , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , B. Kubik , M. Kümmel , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , A. M. C. Le Brun , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , I. Lloro , G. Mainetti , D. Maino , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , S. Marcin , O. Marggraf , M. Martinelli , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , R. J. Massey , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , M. Melchior , Y. Mellier , M. Meneghetti , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , A. Mora , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , R. Nakajima , C. Neissner , S. -M. Niemi , J. W. Nightingale , C. Padilla , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , W. J. Percival , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. A. Popa , L. Pozzetti , F. Raison , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , C. Rosset , R. Saglia , Z. Sakr , A. G. Sánchez , D. Sapone , B. Sartoris , J. A. Schewtschenko , P. Schneider , T. Schrabback , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , S. Serrano , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , L. Stanco , J. Steinwagner , P. Tallada-Crespí , A. N. Taylor , I. Tereno , N. Tessore , S. Toft , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , J. Valiviita , T. Vassallo , A. Veropalumbo , Y. Wang , J. Weller , A. Zacchei , G. Zamorani , F. M. Zerbi , E. Zucca , M. Ballardini , M. Bolzonella , E. Bozzo , C. Burigana , R. Cabanac , M. Calabrese , A. Cappi , T. Castro , J. A. Escartin Vigo , L. Gabarra , J. García-Bellido , V. Gautard , S. Hemmati , M. Huertas-Company , J. Macias-Perez , R. Maoli , J. Martín-Fleitas , M. Maturi , N. Mauri , P. Monaco , M. Pöntinen , C. Porciani , I. Risso , V. Scottez , M. Sereno , M. Tenti , M. Tucci , M. Viel , M. Wiesmann , Y. Akrami , I. T. Andika , G. Angora , S. Anselmi , M. Archidiacono , F. Atrio-Barandela , E. Aubourg , L. Bazzanini , D. Bertacca , M. Bethermin , F. Beutler , A. Blanchard , L. Blot , M. Bonici , S. Borgani , M. L. Brown , S. Bruton , A. Calabro , B. Camacho Quevedo , F. Caro , C. S. Carvalho , F. Cogato , S. Conseil , A. R. Cooray , O. Cucciati , S. Davini , F. De Paolis , G. Desprez , A. Díaz-Sánchez , S. Di Domizio , J. M. Diego , P. -A. Duc , V. Duret , M. Y. Elkhashab , A. Enia , Y. Fang , P. G. Ferreira , A. Finoguenov , A. Fontana , A. Franco , K. Ganga , T. Gasparetto , E. Gaztanaga , F. Giacomini , F. Gianotti , G. Gozaliasl , A. Gruppuso , M. Guidi , C. M. Gutierrez , A. Hall , H. Hildebrandt , J. Hjorth , J. J. E. Kajava , Y. Kang , V. Kansal , D. Karagiannis , K. Kiiveri , J. Kim , C. C. Kirkpatrick , S. Kruk , M. Lattanzi , L. Legrand , F. Lepori , G. Leroy , G. F. Lesci , J. Lesgourgues , T. I. Liaudat , M. Magliocchetti , A. Manjón-García , F. Mannucci , C. J. A. P. Martins , L. Maurin , M. Miluzio , A. Montoro , C. Moretti , G. Morgante , S. Nadathur , K. Naidoo , P. Natoli , S. Nesseris , D. Paoletti , F. Passalacqua , K. Paterson , L. Patrizii , A. Pisani , D. Potter , G. W. Pratt , S. Quai , M. Radovich , W. Roster , S. Sacquegna , M. Sahlén , D. B. Sanders , E. Sarpa , A. Schneider , D. Sciotti , E. Sellentin , L. C. Smith , J. G. Sorce , K. Tanidis , C. Tao , F. Tarsitano , G. Testera , R. Teyssier , S. Tosi , A. Troja , A. Venhola , D. Vergani , G. Vernardos , G. Verza , S. Vinciguerra , M. Walmsley , N. A. Walton , A. H. Wright

As digital medical imaging becomes more prevalent and archives increase in size, representation learning exposes an interesting opportunity for enhanced medical decision support systems. On the other hand, medical imaging data is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Eduardo Pinho , Carlos Costa

Exemplar learning of visual similarities in an unsupervised manner is a problem of paramount importance to Computer Vision. In this context, however, the recent breakthrough in deep learning could not yet unfold its full potential. With…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Artsiom Sanakoyeu , Miguel A. Bautista , Björn Ommer

Background and Aim: Over-fitting issue has been the reason behind deep learning technology not being successfully implemented in oral cancer images classification. The aims of this research were reducing overfitting for accurately producing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-17 Prakrit Joshi , Omar Hisham Alsadoon , Abeer Alsadoon , Nada AlSallami , Tarik A. Rashid , P. W. C. Prasad , Sami Haddad

The goal of this paper is to develop a machine learning model to analyze the main gravitational lens and detect dark substructure (subhalos) within simulated images of strongly lensed galaxies. Using the technique of image segmentation, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-27 Bryan Ostdiek , Ana Diaz Rivero , Cora Dvorkin

We study a variant of the variational autoencoder model (VAE) with a Gaussian mixture as a prior distribution, with the goal of performing unsupervised clustering through deep generative models. We observe that the known problem of…

Supervised object detection has been proven to be successful in many benchmark datasets achieving human-level performances. However, acquiring a large amount of labeled image samples for supervised detection training is tedious,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Bishwo Adhikari , Esa Rahtu , Heikki Huttunen

Strong gravitational lensing offers a powerful and direct probe of dark matter, galaxy evolution and cosmology, yet strong lenses are rare: only 1 in roughly 10,000 massive galaxies can lens a background source into multiple images. The…