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Deep learning has gained broad interest in remote sensing image scene classification thanks to the effectiveness of deep neural networks in extracting the semantics from complex data. However, deep networks require large amounts of training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Gianmarco Perantoni , Lorenzo Bruzzone

Large datasets have been crucial to the success of deep learning models in the recent years, which keep performing better as they are trained with more labelled data. While there have been sustained efforts to make these models more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Vighnesh Birodkar , Hossein Mobahi , Samy Bengio

One paradigm for learning from few labeled examples while making best use of a large amount of unlabeled data is unsupervised pretraining followed by supervised fine-tuning. Although this paradigm uses unlabeled data in a task-agnostic way,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Ting Chen , Simon Kornblith , Kevin Swersky , Mohammad Norouzi , Geoffrey Hinton

Training a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) from scratch is difficult because it requires a large amount of labeled training data and a great deal of expertise to ensure proper convergence. A promising alternative is to fine-tune a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Nima Tajbakhsh , Jae Y. Shin , Suryakanth R. Gurudu , R. Todd Hurst , Christopher B. Kendall , Michael B. Gotway , Jianming Liang

Benefit from large-scale training datasets, deep Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs) have achieved impressive results in face recognition(FR). However, tremendous scale of datasets inevitably lead to noisy data, which obviously reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Wei Hu , Yangyu Huang , Fan Zhang , Ruirui Li

Deep learning methods have advanced quickly in brain imaging analysis over the past few years, but they are usually restricted by the limited labeled data. Pre-trained model on unlabeled data has presented promising improvement in feature…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-22 Jinlong Hu , Yangmin Huang , Nan Wang , Shoubin Dong

Fine-grained image classification, which aims to distinguish images with subtle distinctions, is a challenging task due to two main issues: lack of sufficient training data for every class and difficulty in learning discriminative features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-05 Aoxue Li , Zhiwu Lu , Liwei Wang , Tao Xiang , Xinqi Li , Ji-Rong Wen

Medical Imagings are considered one of the crucial diagnostic tools for different bones-related diseases, especially bones fractures. This paper investigates the robustness of pre-trained deep learning models for classifying bone fractures…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Robby Hoover , Nelly Elsayed , Zag ElSayed , Chengcheng Li

State-of-the-art visual perception models for a wide range of tasks rely on supervised pretraining. ImageNet classification is the de facto pretraining task for these models. Yet, ImageNet is now nearly ten years old and is by modern…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Dhruv Mahajan , Ross Girshick , Vignesh Ramanathan , Kaiming He , Manohar Paluri , Yixuan Li , Ashwin Bharambe , Laurens van der Maaten

Pre-training general-purpose visual features with convolutional neural networks without relying on annotations is a challenging and important task. Most recent efforts in unsupervised feature learning have focused on either small or highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Mathilde Caron , Piotr Bojanowski , Julien Mairal , Armand Joulin

In the medical domain, the lack of large training data sets and benchmarks is often a limiting factor for training deep neural networks. In contrast to expensive manual labeling, computer simulations can generate large and fully labeled…

One of the largest problems in medical image processing is the lack of annotated data. Labeling medical images often requires highly trained experts and can be a time-consuming process. In this paper, we evaluate a method of reducing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Marin Benčević , Marija Habijan , Irena Galić , Aleksandra Pizurica

The intrinsic difficulty in adapting deep learning models to non-stationary environments limits the applicability of neural networks to real-world tasks. This issue is critical in practical supervised learning settings, such as the ones in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Simone Marullo , Matteo Tiezzi , Marco Gori , Stefano Melacci , Tinne Tuytelaars

Successful Artificial Intelligence systems often require numerous labeled data to extract information from document images. In this paper, we investigate the problem of improving the performance of Artificial Intelligence systems in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Bao-Sinh Nguyen , Dung Tien Le , Hieu M. Vu , Tuan Anh D. Nguyen , Minh-Tien Nguyen , Hung Le

In recent years, deep neural networks have known a wide success in various application domains. However, they require important computational and memory resources, which severely hinders their deployment, notably on mobile devices or for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Nathan Hubens , Matei Mancas , Bernard Gosselin , Marius Preda , Titus Zaharia

While fine-tuning pre-trained networks has become a popular way to train image segmentation models, such backbone networks for image segmentation are frequently pre-trained using image classification source datasets, e.g., ImageNet. Though…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Xuhong Li , Haoyi Xiong , Yi Liu , Dingfu Zhou , Zeyu Chen , Yaqing Wang , Dejing Dou

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) face challenges during deployment due to covariate shift, i.e., data distribution shifts between development and deployment contexts. Fine-tuning adapts pre-trained models to new contexts requiring smaller…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Amin Abbasishahkoo , Mahboubeh Dadkhah , Lionel Briand , Dayi Lin

In microscopy image cell segmentation, it is common to train a deep neural network on source data, containing different types of microscopy images, and then fine-tune it using a support set comprising a few randomly selected and annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Youssef Dawoud , Arij Bouazizi , Katharina Ernst , Gustavo Carneiro , Vasileios Belagiannis

Since its release, ImageNet-1k dataset has become a gold standard for evaluating model performance. It has served as the foundation for numerous other datasets and training tasks in computer vision. As models have improved in accuracy,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Nikita Kisel , Illia Volkov , Katerina Hanzelkova , Klara Janouskova , Jiri Matas

Deep neural networks trained on large supervised datasets have led to impressive results in image classification and other tasks. However, well-annotated datasets can be time-consuming and expensive to collect, lending increased interest to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-27 David Rolnick , Andreas Veit , Serge Belongie , Nir Shavit