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Consistency regularization is a technique for semi-supervised learning that underlies a number of strong results for classification with few labeled data. It works by encouraging a learned model to be robust to perturbations on unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Geoff French , Avital Oliver , Tim Salimans

Automated animal censuses with aerial imagery are a vital ingredient towards wildlife conservation. Recent models are generally based on supervised learning and thus require vast amounts of training data. Due to their scarcity and minuscule…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Xiaochen Zheng

Unsupervised visual representation learning has gained much attention from the computer vision community because of the recent achievement of contrastive learning. Most of the existing contrastive learning frameworks adopt the instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Mingkai Zheng , Fei Wang , Shan You , Chen Qian , Changshui Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Chang Xu

Recent empirical works have successfully used unlabeled data to learn feature representations that are broadly useful in downstream classification tasks. Several of these methods are reminiscent of the well-known word2vec embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Sanjeev Arora , Hrishikesh Khandeparkar , Mikhail Khodak , Orestis Plevrakis , Nikunj Saunshi

Human observers can learn to recognize new categories of images from a handful of examples, yet doing so with artificial ones remains an open challenge. We hypothesize that data-efficient recognition is enabled by representations which make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Olivier J. Hénaff , Aravind Srinivas , Jeffrey De Fauw , Ali Razavi , Carl Doersch , S. M. Ali Eslami , Aaron van den Oord

The discriminability of feature representation is the key to open-set face recognition. Previous methods rely on the learnable weights of the classification layer that represent the identities. However, the evaluation process learns no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Youzhe Song , Feng Wang

Semi-Supervised image classification is one of the most fundamental problem in computer vision, which significantly reduces the need for human labor. In this paper, we introduce a new semi-supervised learning algorithm - SimMatchV2, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Mingkai Zheng , Shan You , Lang Huang , Chen Luo , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Chang Xu

Contrastive learning, which aims at minimizing the distance between positive pairs while maximizing that of negative ones, has been widely and successfully applied in unsupervised feature learning, where the design of positive and negative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Rui Zhu , Bingchen Zhao , Jingen Liu , Zhenglong Sun , Chang Wen Chen

Contrastive learning, a dominant self-supervised technique, emphasizes similarity in representations between augmentations of the same input and dissimilarity for different ones. Although low contrastive loss often correlates with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Yunzhe Zhang , Yao Lu , Qi Xuan

Learning effective visual representations without human supervision is a long-standing problem in computer vision. Recent advances in self-supervised learning algorithms have utilized contrastive learning, with methods such as SimCLR, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Jansel Herrera-Gerena , Ramakrishnan Sundareswaran , John Just , Matthew Darr , Ali Jannesari

As a representative self-supervised method, contrastive learning has achieved great successes in unsupervised training of representations. It trains an encoder by distinguishing positive samples from negative ones given query anchors. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Xiao Wang , Yuhang Huang , Dan Zeng , Guo-Jun Qi

Recently, self-supervised representation learning gives further development in multimedia technology. Most existing self-supervised learning methods are applicable to packaged data. However, when it comes to streamed data, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Zhiwei Lin , Yongtao Wang , Hongxiang Lin

Scarcity of labeled data has motivated the development of semi-supervised learning methods, which learn from large portions of unlabeled data alongside a few labeled samples. Consistency Regularization between model's predictions under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Aamir Mustafa , Rafal K. Mantiuk

Contrastive learning is a well-established paradigm in representation learning. The standard framework of contrastive learning minimizes the distance between "similar" instances and maximizes the distance between dissimilar ones in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Naghmeh Ghanooni , Barbod Pajoum , Harshit Rawal , Sophie Fellenz , Vo Nguyen Le Duy , Marius Kloft

Contrastive representation learning has proven to be an effective self-supervised learning method for images and videos. Most successful approaches are based on Noise Contrastive Estimation (NCE) and use different views of an instance as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Julien Denize , Jaonary Rabarisoa , Astrid Orcesi , Romain Hérault

Self-supervised representation learning approaches have recently surpassed their supervised learning counterparts on downstream tasks like object detection and image classification. Somewhat mysteriously the recent gains in performance come…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Senthil Purushwalkam , Abhinav Gupta

Image harmonization aims to achieve visual consistency in composite images by adapting a foreground to make it compatible with a background. However, existing methods always only use the real image as the positive sample to guide the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Yucheng Hang , Bin Xia , Wenming Yang , Qingmin Liao

Contrastive instance discrimination methods outperform supervised learning in downstream tasks such as image classification and object detection. However, these methods rely heavily on data augmentation during representation learning, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Mohammad Alkhalefi , Georgios Leontidis , Mingjun Zhong

One of the important bottlenecks in training modern object detectors is the need for labeled images where bounding box annotations have to be produced for each object present in the image. This bottleneck is further exacerbated in aerial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Akhil Meethal , Eric Granger , Marco Pedersoli

Feature representation via self-supervised learning has reached remarkable success in image-level contrastive learning, which brings impressive performances on image classification tasks. While image-level feature representation mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Junwei Yang , Ke Zhang , Zhaolin Cui , Jinming Su , Junfeng Luo , Xiaolin Wei