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We propose KeypointGAN, a new method for recognizing the pose of objects from a single image that for learning uses only unlabelled videos and a weak empirical prior on the object poses. Video frames differ primarily in the pose of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Tomas Jakab , Ankush Gupta , Hakan Bilen , Andrea Vedaldi

Pixel-level labels are particularly expensive to acquire. Hence, pretraining is a critical step to improve models on a task like semantic segmentation. However, prominent algorithms for pretraining neural networks use image-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Mathilde Caron , Neil Houlsby , Cordelia Schmid

Weakly-supervised object detection attempts to limit the amount of supervision by dispensing the need for bounding boxes, but still assumes image-level labels on the entire training set. In this work, we study the problem of training an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Zhaohui Yang , Miaojing Shi , Chao Xu , Vittorio Ferrari , Yannis Avrithis

Quantifying motion in 3D is important for studying the behavior of humans and other animals, but manual pose annotations are expensive and time-consuming to obtain. Self-supervised keypoint discovery is a promising strategy for estimating…

In the fast-evolving field of artificial intelligence, where models are increasingly growing in complexity and size, the availability of labeled data for training deep learning models has become a significant challenge. Addressing complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Santiago C. Vilabella , Pablo Pérez-Núñez , Beatriz Remeseiro

The goal of self-supervised visual representation learning is to learn strong, transferable image representations, with the majority of research focusing on object or scene level. On the other hand, representation learning at part level has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Subhabrata Choudhury , Iro Laina , Christian Rupprecht , Andrea Vedaldi

Existing research on unconstrained in-the-wild head pose estimation suffers from the flaws of its datasets, which consist of either numerous samples by non-realistic synthesis or constrained collection, or small-scale natural images yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Huayi Zhou , Fei Jiang , Jin Yuan , Yong Rui , Hongtao Lu , Kui Jia

Fully-supervised CNN-based approaches for learning local image descriptors have shown remarkable results in a wide range of geometric tasks. However, most of them require per-pixel ground-truth keypoint correspondence data which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Iaroslav Melekhov , Zakaria Laskar , Xiaotian Li , Shuzhe Wang , Juho Kannala

We address a core problem of computer vision: Detection and description of 2D feature points for image matching. For a long time, hand-crafted designs, like the seminal SIFT algorithm, were unsurpassed in accuracy and efficiency. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Aritra Bhowmik , Stefan Gumhold , Carsten Rother , Eric Brachmann

The real challenge in pattern recognition task and machine learning process is to train a discriminator using labeled data and use it to distinguish between future data as accurate as possible. However, most of the problems in the real…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-08-08 Shafigh Parsazad , Ehsan Saboori , Amin Allahyar

Localizing objects in an unsupervised manner poses significant challenges due to the absence of key visual information such as the appearance, type and number of objects, as well as the lack of labeled object classes typically available in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Hasib Zunair , A. Ben Hamza

Semi-supervised learning is crucial for alleviating labelling burdens in people-centric sensing. However, human-generated data inherently suffer from distribution shift in semi-supervised learning due to the diverse biological conditions…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Kaixuan Chen , Lina Yao , Dalin Zhang , Xiaojun Chang , Guodong Long , Sen Wang

The performance of supervised deep learning methods for medical image segmentation is often limited by the scarcity of labeled data. As a promising research direction, semi-supervised learning addresses this dilemma by leveraging unlabeled…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-13 Zihang Liu , Chunhui Zhao

To teach robots skills, it is crucial to obtain data with supervision. Since annotating real world data is time-consuming and expensive, enabling robots to learn in a self-supervised way is important. In this work, we introduce a robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Xinke Deng , Yu Xiang , Arsalan Mousavian , Clemens Eppner , Timothy Bretl , Dieter Fox

Progress has been achieved recently in object detection given advancements in deep learning. Nevertheless, such tools typically require a large amount of training data and significant manual effort to label objects. This limits their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Chaitanya Mitash , Kostas E. Bekris , Abdeslam Boularias

Extracting informative representations from videos is fundamental for effectively learning various downstream tasks. We present a novel approach for unsupervised learning of meaningful representations from videos, leveraging the concept of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Ali Younes , Simone Schaub-Meyer , Georgia Chalvatzaki

Detecting and matching robust viewpoint-invariant keypoints is critical for visual SLAM and Structure-from-Motion. State-of-the-art learning-based methods generate training samples via homography adaptation to create 2D synthetic views with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Jiexiong Tang , Rares Ambrus , Vitor Guizilini , Sudeep Pillai , Hanme Kim , Patric Jensfelt , Adrien Gaidon

Accurate localization in diverse environments is a fundamental challenge in computer vision and robotics. The task involves determining a sensor's precise position and orientation, typically a camera, within a given space. Traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Luca Di Giammarino , Boyang Sun , Giorgio Grisetti , Marc Pollefeys , Hermann Blum , Daniel Barath

Modern 3D human pose estimation techniques rely on deep networks, which require large amounts of training data. While weakly-supervised methods require less supervision, by utilizing 2D poses or multi-view imagery without annotations, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Helge Rhodin , Mathieu Salzmann , Pascal Fua

Fully convolutional networks (FCN) have achieved great success in human parsing in recent years. In conventional human parsing tasks, pixel-level labeling is required for guiding the training, which usually involves enormous human labeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Zhonghua Wu , Guosheng Lin , Jianfei Cai