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For unsupervised pretraining, mask-reconstruction pretraining (MRP) approaches, e.g. MAE and data2vec, randomly mask input patches and then reconstruct the pixels or semantic features of these masked patches via an auto-encoder. Then for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Jiachun Pan , Pan Zhou , Shuicheng Yan

As a pioneering work, PointContrast conducts unsupervised 3D representation learning via leveraging contrastive learning over raw RGB-D frames and proves its effectiveness on various downstream tasks. However, the trend of large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Xiaoyang Wu , Xin Wen , Xihui Liu , Hengshuang Zhao

Effective protein representation learning is crucial for predicting protein functions. Traditional methods often pretrain protein language models on large, unlabeled amino acid sequences, followed by finetuning on labeled data. While…

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As the pretraining technique is growing in popularity, little work has been done on pretrained learning-based motion prediction methods in autonomous driving. In this paper, we propose a framework to formalize the pretraining task for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Yi Yang , Qingwen Zhang , Thomas Gilles , Nazre Batool , John Folkesson

Zero-shot skeleton-based action recognition aims to classify unseen skeleton-based human actions without prior exposure to such categories during training. This task is extremely challenging due to the difficulty in generalizing from known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Kai Zhou , Shuhai Zhang , Zeng You , Jinwu Hu , Mingkui Tan , Fei Liu

We introduce a new approach to probabilistic unsupervised learning based on the recognition-parametrised model (RPM): a normalised semi-parametric hypothesis class for joint distributions over observed and latent variables. Under the key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-21 William I. Walker , Hugo Soulat , Changmin Yu , Maneesh Sahani

Action recognition via 3D skeleton data is an emerging important topic in these years. Most existing methods either extract hand-crafted descriptors or learn action representations by supervised learning paradigms that require massive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Haocong Rao , Shihao Xu , Xiping Hu , Jun Cheng , Bin Hu

Learning robust representations to discriminate cell phenotypes based on microscopy images is important for drug discovery. Drug development efforts typically analyse thousands of cell images to screen for potential treatments. Early works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Alexis Perakis , Ali Gorji , Samriddhi Jain , Krishna Chaitanya , Simone Rizza , Ender Konukoglu

In skeleton-based action recognition, a key challenge is distinguishing between actions with similar trajectories of joints due to the lack of image-level details in skeletal representations. Recognizing that the differentiation of similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Hongda Liu , Yunfan Liu , Min Ren , Hao Wang , Yunlong Wang , Zhenan Sun

We present a new self-supervised paradigm on point cloud sequence understanding. Inspired by the discriminative and generative self-supervised methods, we design two tasks, namely point cloud sequence based Contrastive Prediction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Xiaoxiao Sheng , Zhiqiang Shen , Gang Xiao

The self-supervised pretraining paradigm has achieved great success in learning 3D action representations for skeleton-based action recognition using contrastive learning. However, learning effective representations for skeleton-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Qiushuo Cheng , Jingjing Liu , Catherine Morgan , Alan Whone , Majid Mirmehdi

One central question for video action recognition is how to model motion. In this paper, we present hierarchical contrastive motion learning, a new self-supervised learning framework to extract effective motion representations from raw…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Xitong Yang , Xiaodong Yang , Sifei Liu , Deqing Sun , Larry Davis , Jan Kautz

In the character animation field, modern supervised keyframe interpolation models have demonstrated exceptional performance in constructing natural human motions from sparse pose definitions. As supervised models, large motion datasets are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Clinton Mo , Kun Hu , Chengjiang Long , Dong Yuan , Zhiyong Wang

Unsupervised representation learning has succeeded with excellent results in many applications. It is an especially powerful tool to learn a good representation of environments with partial or noisy observations. In partially observable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Zhaohan Daniel Guo , Mohammad Gheshlaghi Azar , Bilal Piot , Bernardo A. Pires , Rémi Munos

Instance-level contrastive learning techniques, which rely on data augmentation and a contrastive loss function, have found great success in the domain of visual representation learning. They are not suitable for exploiting the rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Martine Toering , Ioannis Gatopoulos , Maarten Stol , Vincent Tao Hu

Skeleton-based human action recognition has received widespread attention in recent years due to its diverse range of application scenarios. Due to the different sources of human skeletons, skeleton data naturally exhibit heterogeneity. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Hongsong Wang , Xiaoyan Ma , Jidong Kuang , Jie Gui

Human skeleton point clouds are commonly used to automatically classify and predict the behaviour of others. In this paper, we use a contrastive self-supervised learning method, SimCLR, to learn representations that capture the semantics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Nico Lingg , Miguel Sarabia , Luca Zappella , Barry-John Theobald

A steady momentum of innovations and breakthroughs has convincingly pushed the limits of unsupervised image representation learning. Compared to static 2D images, video has one more dimension (time). The inherent supervision existing in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Ting Yao , Yiheng Zhang , Zhaofan Qiu , Yingwei Pan , Tao Mei

Recent contrastive based 3D action representation learning has made great progress. However, the strict positive/negative constraint is yet to be relaxed and the use of non-self positive is yet to be explored. In this paper, a Contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Haoyuan Zhang , Yonghong Hou , Wenjing Zhang , Wanqing Li

Unsupervised skeleton based action recognition has achieved remarkable progress recently. Existing unsupervised learning methods suffer from severe overfitting problem, and thus small networks are used, significantly reducing the…

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