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Recently, representation learning with contrastive learning algorithms has been successfully applied to challenging unlabeled datasets. However, these methods are unable to distinguish important features from unimportant ones under simply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Toshiyuki Oshima , Kentaro Takagi , Kouta Nakata

Image clustering, which involves grouping images into different clusters without labels, is a key task in unsupervised learning. Although previous deep clustering methods have achieved remarkable results, they only explore the intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Haixin Zhang , Yongjun Li , Dong Huang

The field of deep clustering combines deep learning and clustering to learn representations that improve both the learned representation and the performance of the considered clustering method. Most existing deep clustering methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Lukas Miklautz , Martin Teuffenbach , Pascal Weber , Rona Perjuci , Walid Durani , Christian Böhm , Claudia Plant

Subspace clustering aims to group data points that lie in a union of low-dimensional subspaces and finds wide application in computer vision, hyperspectral imaging, and recommendation systems. However, most existing methods assume fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Huanran Li , Daniel Pimentel-Alarcón

Recently, some contrastive learning methods have been proposed to simultaneously learn representations and clustering assignments, achieving significant improvements. However, these methods do not take the category information and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Huasong Zhong , Jianlong Wu , Chong Chen , Jianqiang Huang , Minghua Deng , Liqiang Nie , Zhouchen Lin , Xian-Sheng Hua

In this work, we evaluate two different image clustering objectives, k-means clustering and correlation clustering, in the context of Triplet Loss induced feature space embeddings. Specifically, we train a convolutional neural network to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Kalun Ho , Janis Keuper , Franz-Josef Pfreundt , Margret Keuper

Contemporary deep clustering approaches often rely on either contrastive or non-contrastive techniques to acquire effective representations for clustering tasks. Contrastive methods leverage negative pairs to achieve homogenous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Abhishek Kumar , Dong-Gyu Lee

Unsupervised fine-grained class clustering is a practical yet challenging task due to the difficulty of feature representations learning of subtle object details. We introduce C3-GAN, a method that leverages the categorical inference power…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Yunji Kim , Jung-Woo Ha

Deep clustering algorithms combine representation learning and clustering by jointly optimizing a clustering loss and a non-clustering loss. In such methods, a deep neural network is used for representation learning together with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Abien Fred Agarap , Arnulfo P. Azcarraga

Clustering is a class of unsupervised learning methods that has been extensively applied and studied in computer vision. Little work has been done to adapt it to the end-to-end training of visual features on large scale datasets. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Mathilde Caron , Piotr Bojanowski , Armand Joulin , Matthijs Douze

Unsupervised image classification, or image clustering, aims to group unlabeled images into semantically meaningful categories. Early methods integrated representation learning and clustering within an iterative framework. However, the rise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Melih Baydar , Emre Akbas

Representation learning aims to extract meaningful lower-dimensional embeddings from data, known as representations. Despite its widespread application, there is no established definition of a ``good'' representation. Typically, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Mahalakshmi Sabanayagam , Omar Al-Dabooni , Pascal Esser

Learning a powerful representation from point clouds is a fundamental and challenging problem in the field of computer vision. Different from images where RGB pixels are stored in the regular grid, for point clouds, the underlying semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Feng Yang , Yichao Cao , Qifan Xue , Shuai Jin , Xuanpeng Li , Weigong Zhang

Multiview clustering (MVC) segregates data samples into meaningful clusters by synthesizing information across multiple views. Moreover, deep learning-based methods have demonstrated their strong feature learning capabilities in MVC…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Hao Yang , Hua Mao , Wai Lok Woo , Jie Chen , Xi Peng

Clustering is the task of gathering similar data samples into clusters without using any predefined labels. It has been widely studied in machine learning literature, and recent advancements in deep learning have revived interest in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Mohammadreza Sadeghi , Hadi Hojjati , Narges Armanfard

Traditional image clustering methods take a two-step approach, feature learning and clustering, sequentially. However, recent research results demonstrated that combining the separated phases in a unified framework and training them jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Fengfu Li , Hong Qiao , Bo Zhang , Xuanyang Xi

Despite significant advances in clustering methods in recent years, the outcome of clustering of a natural image dataset is still unsatisfactory due to two important drawbacks. Firstly, clustering of images needs a good feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Dipanjan Das , Ratul Ghosh , Brojeshwar Bhowmick

Multi-view clustering has attracted increasing attentions recently by utilizing information from multiple views. However, existing multi-view clustering methods are either with high computation and space complexities, or lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Jie Xu , Yazhou Ren , Guofeng Li , Lili Pan , Ce Zhu , Zenglin Xu

Federated clustering, an essential extension of centralized clustering for federated scenarios, enables multiple data-holding clients to collaboratively group data while keeping their data locally. In centralized scenarios, clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jing Liu , Jie Yan , Zhong-Yuan Zhang

Contrastive learning has achieved promising performance in the field of multi-view clustering recently. However, the positive and negative sample construction mechanisms ignoring semantic consistency lead to false negative pairs, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Siwen Liu , Jinyan Liu , Hanning Yuan , Qi Li , Jing Geng , Ziqiang Yuan , Huaxu Han