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This paper addresses the problem of unsupervised clustering which remains one of the most fundamental challenges in machine learning and artificial intelligence. We propose the clustered generator model for clustering which contains both…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-20 Dandan Zhu , Tian Han , Linqi Zhou , Xiaokang Yang , Ying Nian Wu

Unlike common cancers, such as those of the prostate and breast, tumor grading in rare cancers is difficult and largely undefined because of small sample sizes, the sheer volume of time needed to undertake on such a task, and the inherent…

Face clustering is an essential tool for exploiting the unlabeled face data, and has a wide range of applications including face annotation and retrieval. Recent works show that supervised clustering can result in noticeable performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Lei Yang , Dapeng Chen , Xiaohang Zhan , Rui Zhao , Chen Change Loy , Dahua Lin

We introduce Cluster Contrast (CueCo), a novel approach to unsupervised visual representation learning that effectively combines the strengths of contrastive learning and clustering methods. Inspired by recent advancements, CueCo is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Nikolaos Giakoumoglou , Tania Stathaki

We propose a self-supervised Gaussian ATtention network for image Clustering (GATCluster). Rather than extracting intermediate features first and then performing the traditional clustering algorithm, GATCluster directly outputs semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Chuang Niu , Jun Zhang , Ge Wang , Jimin Liang

We have developed a method that maps large astronomical images onto a two-dimensional map and clusters them. A combination of various state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) algorithms is used to develop a fully unsupervised image quality…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Hossen Teimoorinia , Sara Shishehchi , Ahnaf Tazwar , Ping Lin , Finn Archinuk , Stephen D. J. Gwyn , J. J. Kavelaars

With the advent of new spectroscopic surveys from ground and space, observing up to hundreds of millions of galaxies, spectra classification will become overwhelming for standard analysis techniques. To prepare for this challenge, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-08 Fucheng Zhong , Rui Li , Nicola R. Napolitano

In this paper, we address the problem of generalized category discovery (GCD), \ie, given a set of images where part of them are labelled and the rest are not, the task is to automatically cluster the images in the unlabelled data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Bingchen Zhao , Xin Wen , Kai Han

In this work, we propose a new unsupervised image segmentation approach based on mutual information maximization between different constructed views of the inputs. Taking inspiration from autoregressive generative models that predict the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Yassine Ouali , Céline Hudelot , Myriam Tami

Dataset bias is a critical challenge in machine learning since it often leads to a negative impact on a model due to the unintended decision rules captured by spurious correlations. Although existing works often handle this issue based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Seonguk Seo , Joon-Young Lee , Bohyung Han

Unsupervised person re-identification (Re-ID) is a promising and very challenging research problem in computer vision. Learning robust and discriminative features with unlabeled data is of central importance to Re-ID. Recently, more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Zheng Hu , Chuang Zhu , Gang He

We conduct a systematic robustness analysis of the hybrid machine learning framework \texttt{USmorph}, which integrates unsupervised and supervised learning for galaxy morphological classification. Although \texttt{USmorph} has already been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-19 Shiwei Zhu , Guanwen Fang , Yao Dai , Chichun Zhou , Yirui Zheng , Jie Song , Shiying Lu , Xu Kong

In this research we propose a deep learning approach for detecting anomalies in videos using convolutional autoencoder and decoder neural networks on the UCSD dataset.Our method utilizes a convolutional autoencoder to learn the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Gopikrishna Pavuluri , Gayathri Annem

Reliable classification of benign and malignant lesions in breast ultrasound images can provide an effective and relatively low cost method for early diagnosis of breast cancer. The accuracy of the diagnosis is however highly dependent on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-24 Elham Yousef Kalaf , Ata Jodeiri , Seyed Kamaledin Setarehdan , Ng Wei Lin , Kartini Binti Rahman , Nur Aishah Taib , Sarinder Kaur Dhillon

As a powerful approach for exploratory data analysis, unsupervised clustering is a fundamental task in computer vision and pattern recognition. Many clustering algorithms have been developed, but most of them perform unsatisfactorily on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Pengfei Ge , Chuan-Xian Ren , Jiashi Feng , Shuicheng Yan

Analyzing and visualizing scientific ensemble datasets with high dimensionality and complexity poses significant challenges. Dimensionality reduction techniques and autoencoders are powerful tools for extracting features, but they often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Hamid Gadirov , Lennard Manuel , Steffen Frey

This research studies the impact of high-quality training datasets on the performance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in detecting strong gravitational lenses. We stress the importance of data diversity and representativeness,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-14 Samira Rezaei , Amirmohammad Chegeni , Bharath Chowdhary Nagam , J. P. McKean , Mitra Baratchi , Koen Kuijken , Léon V. E. Koopmans

One of the key challenges of visual perception is to extract abstract models of 3D objects and object categories from visual measurements, which are affected by complex nuisance factors such as viewpoint, occlusion, motion, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-21 James Thewlis , Hakan Bilen , Andrea Vedaldi

Subspace clustering aims to group data points that lie in a union of low-dimensional subspaces and finds wide application in computer vision, hyperspectral imaging, and recommendation systems. However, most existing methods assume fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Huanran Li , Daniel Pimentel-Alarcón

The gap between our ability to collect interesting data and our ability to analyze these data is growing at an unprecedented rate. Recent algorithmic attempts to fill this gap have employed unsupervised tools to discover structure in data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Genevieve Flaspohler , Nicholas Roy , Yogesh Girdhar