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Image segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision. Data annotation for training supervised methods can be labor-intensive, motivating unsupervised methods. Current approaches often rely on extracting deep features from pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Amit Aflalo , Shai Bagon , Tamar Kashti , Yonina Eldar

Clustering is a ubiquitous tool in unsupervised learning. Most of the existing self-supervised representation learning methods typically cluster samples based on visually dominant features. While this works well for image-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Huseyin Coskun , Alireza Zareian , Joshua L. Moore , Federico Tombari , Chen Wang

A widely used paradigm to improve the generalization performance of high-capacity neural models is through the addition of auxiliary unsupervised tasks during supervised training. Tasks such as similarity matching and input reconstruction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Shivin Srivastava , Kenji Kawaguchi , Vaibhav Rajan

Clustering is a core task in machine learning with wide-ranging applications in data mining and pattern recognition. However, its unsupervised nature makes it inherently challenging. Many existing clustering algorithms suffer from critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ahmed Shokry , Ayman Khalafallah

Self-supervised instance discrimination is an effective contrastive pretext task to learn feature representations and address limited medical image annotations. The idea is to make features of transformed versions of the same images similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Yejia Zhang , Xinrong Hu , Nishchal Sapkota , Yiyu Shi , Danny Z. Chen

Convolutional networks are at the center of best-in-class computer vision applications for a wide assortment of undertakings. Since 2014, a profound amount of work began to make better convolutional architectures, yielding generous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Dishant Parikh

Self-supervised learning has recently emerged as the preeminent pretraining paradigm across and between modalities, with remarkable results. In the image domain specifically, group (or cluster) discrimination has been one of the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Ioannis Maniadis Metaxas , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Ioannis Patras

Subspace clustering methods based on data self-expression have become very popular for learning from data that lie in a union of low-dimensional linear subspaces. However, the applicability of subspace clustering has been limited because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Junjian Zhang , Chun-Guang Li , Chong You , Xianbiao Qi , Honggang Zhang , Jun Guo , Zhouchen Lin

In this paper, we investigate the unsupervised deep representation learning issue and technically propose a novel framework called Deep Self-representative Concept Factorization Network (DSCF-Net), for clustering deep features. To improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Yan Zhang , Zhao Zhang , Zheng Zhang , Mingbo Zhao , Li Zhang , Zhengjun Zha , Meng Wang

Annotating large-scale point clouds is highly time-consuming and often infeasible for many complex real-world tasks. Point cloud pre-training has therefore become a promising strategy for learning discriminative representations without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Guofeng Mei , Xiaoshui Huang , Juan Liu , Jian Zhang , Qiang Wu

Almost all the state-of-the-art neural networks for computer vision tasks are trained by (1) pre-training on a large-scale dataset and (2) finetuning on the target dataset. This strategy helps reduce dependence on the target dataset and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Shuvam Chakraborty , Burak Uzkent , Kumar Ayush , Kumar Tanmay , Evan Sheehan , Stefano Ermon

In this paper, we focus on unsupervised representation learning for clustering of images. Recent advances in deep clustering and unsupervised representation learning are based on the idea that different views of an input image (generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Aniket Anand Deshmukh , Jayanth Reddy Regatti , Eren Manavoglu , Urun Dogan

The goal of this paper is to self-train a 3D convolutional neural network on an unlabeled video collection for deployment on small-scale video collections. As smaller video datasets benefit more from motion than appearance, we strive to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Kirill Gavrilyuk , Mihir Jain , Ilia Karmanov , Cees G. M. Snoek

We investigate a fundamental aspect of machine vision: the measurement of features, by revisiting clustering, one of the most classic approaches in machine learning and data analysis. Existing visual feature extractors, including ConvNets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Guikun Chen , Xia Li , Yi Yang , Wenguan Wang

Unsupervised image clustering methods often introduce alternative objectives to indirectly train the model and are subject to faulty predictions and overconfident results. To overcome these challenges, the current research proposes an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Sungwon Park , Sungwon Han , Sundong Kim , Danu Kim , Sungkyu Park , Seunghoon Hong , Meeyoung Cha

This paper addresses the task of unsupervised learning of representations for action recognition in videos. Previous works proposed to utilize future prediction, or other domain-specific objectives to train a network, but achieved only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Pavel Tokmakov , Martial Hebert , Cordelia Schmid

Visual attributes, from simple objects (e.g., backpacks, hats) to soft-biometrics (e.g., gender, height, clothing) have proven to be a powerful representational approach for many applications such as image description and human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Nikolaos Sarafianos , Theodore Giannakopoulos , Christophoros Nikou , Ioannis A. Kakadiaris

Unsupervised image representations have significantly reduced the gap with supervised pretraining, notably with the recent achievements of contrastive learning methods. These contrastive methods typically work online and rely on a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Mathilde Caron , Ishan Misra , Julien Mairal , Priya Goyal , Piotr Bojanowski , Armand Joulin

Medical image analysis using supervised deep learning methods remains problematic because of the reliance of deep learning methods on large amounts of labelled training data. Although medical imaging data repositories continue to expand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Euijoon Ahn , Ashnil Kumar , Dagan Feng , Michael Fulham , Jinman Kim

In real-world applications, data do not reflect the ones commonly used for neural networks training, since they are usually few, unlabeled and can be available as a stream. Hence many existing deep learning solutions suffer from a limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Alessia Bertugli , Stefano Vincenzi , Simone Calderara , Andrea Passerini