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We address the problem of semantic correspondence, that is, establishing a dense flow field between images depicting different instances of the same object or scene category. We propose to use images annotated with binary foreground masks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Junghyup Lee , Dohyung Kim , Wonkyung Lee , Jean Ponce , Bumsub Ham

Self-supervision can dramatically cut back the amount of manually-labelled data required to train deep neural networks. While self-supervision has usually been considered for tasks such as image classification, in this paper we aim at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-06 David Novotny , Samuel Albanie , Diane Larlus , Andrea Vedaldi

Self-supervised learning holds promise in leveraging large amounts of unlabeled data, however much of its progress has thus far been limited to highly curated pre-training data such as ImageNet. We explore the effects of contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Yonglong Tian , Olivier J. Henaff , Aaron van den Oord

Advanced self-supervised visual representation learning methods rely on the instance discrimination (ID) pretext task. We point out that the ID task has an implicit semantic consistency (SC) assumption, which may not hold in unconstrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Yucheng Zhao , Guangting Wang , Chong Luo , Wenjun Zeng , Zheng-Jun Zha

Semantic matching aims to establish pixel-level correspondences between instances of the same category and represents a fundamental task in computer vision. Existing approaches suffer from two limitations: (i) Geometric Ambiguity: Their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Songlin Yang , Tianyi Wei , Yushi Lan , Zeqi Xiao , Anyi Rao , Xingang Pan

Much research has examined models for prediction of semantic labels or instances including dense pixel-wise prediction. The problem of predicting salient objects or regions of an image has also been examined in a similar light. With that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Md Amirul Islam , Mahmoud Kalash , Neil D. B. Bruce

Self-supervised learning based on instance discrimination has shown remarkable progress. In particular, contrastive learning, which regards each image as well as its augmentations as an individual class and tries to distinguish them from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Haohang Xu , Xiaopeng Zhang , Hao Li , Lingxi Xie , Hongkai Xiong , Qi Tian

Graph contrastive learning defines a contrastive task to pull similar instances close and push dissimilar instances away. It learns discriminative node embeddings without supervised labels, which has aroused increasing attention in the past…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Lin Shu , Chuan Chen , Zibin Zheng

Image semantic segmentation is more and more being of interest for computer vision and machine learning researchers. Many applications on the rise need accurate and efficient segmentation mechanisms: autonomous driving, indoor navigation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Alberto Garcia-Garcia , Sergio Orts-Escolano , Sergiu Oprea , Victor Villena-Martinez , Jose Garcia-Rodriguez

Deep learning techniques have achieved great success in remote sensing image change detection. Most of them are supervised techniques, which usually require large amounts of training data and are limited to a particular application.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-11 Yuxing Chen , Lorenzo Bruzzone

Semantic image segmentation is a principal problem in computer vision, where the aim is to correctly classify each individual pixel of an image into a semantic label. Its widespread use in many areas, including medical imaging and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Vladimir Nekrasov , Janghoon Ju , Jaesik Choi

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation involves assigning pixel-wise labels to unlabeled images at training time. This is useful in a wide range of real-world applications where collecting pixel-wise labels is not feasible in time or cost.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Jianfeng Wang , Daniela Massiceti , Xiaolin Hu , Vladimir Pavlovic , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Semantic segmentation, a pixel-level vision task, is developed rapidly by using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Training CNNs requires a large amount of labeled data, but manually annotating data is difficult. For emancipating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Qi Wang , Junyu Gao , Xuelong Li

Self-supervised contrastive learning is an effective approach for addressing the challenge of limited labelled data. This study builds upon the previously established two-stage patch-level, multi-label classification method for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Salma Haidar , José Oramas

Semantic segmentation is the pixel-wise labelling of an image. Since the problem is defined at the pixel level, determining image class labels only is not acceptable, but localising them at the original image pixel resolution is necessary.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Irem Ulku , Erdem Akagunduz

Deep neural networks have achieved promising progress in remote sensing (RS) image classification, for which the training process requires abundant samples for each class. However, it is time-consuming and unrealistic to annotate labels for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Wenjia Xu , Jiuniu Wang , Zhiwei Wei , Mugen Peng , Yirong Wu

The rapid development of deep learning has made a great progress in image segmentation, one of the fundamental tasks of computer vision. However, the current segmentation algorithms mostly rely on the availability of pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Wei Shen , Zelin Peng , Xuehui Wang , Huayu Wang , Jiazhong Cen , Dongsheng Jiang , Lingxi Xie , Xiaokang Yang , Qi Tian

Recent multimodal models such as Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) have shown remarkable ability to align visual and linguistic representations. However, domains where small visual differences carry large semantic significance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hiroshi Sasaki

The immense success of deep learning based methods in computer vision heavily relies on large scale training datasets. These richly annotated datasets help the network learn discriminative visual features. Collecting and annotating such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Yash Patel , Lluis Gomez , Raul Gomez , Marçal Rusiñol , Dimosthenis Karatzas , C. V. Jawahar

Despite the success of a number of recent techniques for visual self-supervised deep learning, there has been limited investigation into the representations that are ultimately learned. By leveraging recent advances in the comparison of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Tom George Grigg , Dan Busbridge , Jason Ramapuram , Russ Webb