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Existing self-supervised learning (SSL) methods primarily learn object-invariant representations but often neglect the spatial structure and relationships among object parts. To address this limitation, we introduce Spatial Prediction (SP),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yang Shen , Yusen Cai , Weronika Hryniewska-Guzik , Qing Lin , Mengmi Zhang

In this study, we propose a novel method called region-guided masked image modeling (RGMIM) for learning meaningful representations from X-ray images. Our method adopts a new masking strategy that utilizes organ mask information to identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Guang Li , Ren Togo , Takahiro Ogawa , Miki Haseyama

Quantifying and evaluating image complexity can be instrumental in enhancing the performance of various computer vision tasks. Supervised learning can effectively learn image complexity features from well-annotated datasets. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Shipeng Liu , Liang Zhao , Dengfeng Chen , Zhanping Song

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

Visual place recognition is a critical task in computer vision, especially for localization and navigation systems. Existing methods often rely on contrastive learning: image descriptors are trained to have small distance for similar images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 María Leyva-Vallina , Nicola Strisciuglio , Nicolai Petkov

Person re-identification (ReID) under occlusions is a challenging problem in video surveillance. Most of existing person ReID methods take advantage of local features to deal with occlusions. However, these methods usually independently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Wanxiang Yang , Yan Yan , Si Chen

We present three multi-scale similarity learning architectures, or DeepSim networks. These models learn pixel-level matching with a contrastive loss and are agnostic to the geometry of the considered scene. We establish a middle ground…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Mohamed Ali Chebbi , Ewelina Rupnik , Marc Pierrot-Deseilligny , Paul Lopes

Existing neural field representations for 3D object reconstruction either (1) utilize object-level representations, but suffer from low-quality details due to conditioning on a global latent code, or (2) are able to perfectly reconstruct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Christopher Wewer , Eddy Ilg , Bernt Schiele , Jan Eric Lenssen

Visual SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) methods typically rely on handcrafted visual features or raw RGB values for establishing correspondences between images. These features, while suitable for sparse mapping, often lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Chamara Saroj Weerasekera , Ravi Garg , Yasir Latif , Ian Reid

We present ReCo, a contrastive learning framework designed at a regional level to assist learning in semantic segmentation. ReCo performs semi-supervised or supervised pixel-level contrastive learning on a sparse set of hard negative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Shikun Liu , Shuaifeng Zhi , Edward Johns , Andrew J. Davison

There is extensive interest in metric learning methods for image retrieval. Many metric learning loss functions focus on learning a correct ranking of training samples, but strongly overfit semantically inconsistent labels and require a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Christopher Liao , Theodoros Tsiligkaridis , Brian Kulis

Recent learning-based methods have reduced the computational complexity of traditional trajectory similarity computation, but state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods still fail to leverage the comprehensive spectrum of trajectory information for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Hao Long , Silin Zhou , Lisi Chen , Shuo Shang

Regularization is essential in deep learning to enhance generalization and mitigate overfitting. However, conventional techniques often rely on heuristics, making them less reliable or effective across diverse settings. We propose Self…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Xiuding Cai , Yaoyao Zhu , Linjie Fu , Dong Miao , Yu Yao

This paper presents SimMIM, a simple framework for masked image modeling. We simplify recently proposed related approaches without special designs such as block-wise masking and tokenization via discrete VAE or clustering. To study what let…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Zhenda Xie , Zheng Zhang , Yue Cao , Yutong Lin , Jianmin Bao , Zhuliang Yao , Qi Dai , Han Hu

Generating precise class-aware pseudo ground-truths, a.k.a, class activation maps (CAMs), is essential for weakly-supervised semantic segmentation. The original CAM method usually produces incomplete and inaccurate localization maps. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Jinlong Li , Zequn Jie , Xu Wang , Xiaolin Wei , Lin Ma

Recent learning-based visual localization methods use global descriptors to disambiguate visually similar places, but existing approaches often derive these descriptors from geometric cues alone (e.g., covisibility graphs), limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Son Tung Nguyen , Alejandro Fontan , Michael Milford , Tobias Fischer

Contrastive learning methods for unsupervised visual representation learning have reached remarkable levels of transfer performance. We argue that the power of contrastive learning has yet to be fully unleashed, as current methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Zhenda Xie , Yutong Lin , Zheng Zhang , Yue Cao , Stephen Lin , Han Hu

Recent successes in self-supervised learning (SSL) model spatial co-occurrences of visual features either by masking portions of an image or by aggressively cropping it. Here, we propose a new way to model spatial co-occurrences by aligning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Arthur Aubret , Céline Teulière , Jochen Triesch

In this paper, we introduce a novel self-supervised learning (SSL) loss for image representation learning. There is a growing belief that generalization in deep neural networks is linked to their ability to discriminate object shapes. Since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Sepehr Sameni , Simon Jenni , Paolo Favaro

In text recognition, self-supervised pre-training emerges as a good solution to reduce dependence on expansive annotated real data. Previous studies primarily focus on local visual representation by leveraging mask image modeling or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Zuan Gao , Yuxin Wang , Yadong Qu , Boqiang Zhang , Zixiao Wang , Jianjun Xu , Hongtao Xie