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Face spoofing causes severe security threats in face recognition systems. Previous anti-spoofing works focused on supervised techniques, typically with either binary or auxiliary supervision. Most of them suffer from limited robustness and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Chengwei Chen , Wang Yuan , Xuequan Lu , Lizhuang Ma

In a wide range of multimodal tasks, contrastive learning has become a particularly appealing approach since it can successfully learn representations from abundant unlabeled data with only pairing information (e.g., image-caption or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Paul Pu Liang , Zihao Deng , Martin Ma , James Zou , Louis-Philippe Morency , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Contrastive learning is among the most successful methods for visual representation learning, and its performance can be further improved by jointly performing clustering on the learned representations. However, existing methods for joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Shunjie-Fabian Zheng , JaeEun Nam , Emilio Dorigatti , Bernd Bischl , Shekoofeh Azizi , Mina Rezaei

Contrastive learning methods have been applied to a range of domains and modalities by training models to identify similar "views" of data points. However, specialized scientific modalities pose a challenge for this paradigm, as identifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Jasmine Bayrooti , Noah Goodman , Alex Tamkin

Existing multilingual machine translation approaches mainly focus on English-centric directions, while the non-English directions still lag behind. In this work, we aim to build a many-to-many translation system with an emphasis on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Xiao Pan , Mingxuan Wang , Liwei Wu , Lei Li

We introduce SyncLipMAE, a self-supervised pretraining framework for talking-face video that learns synchronization-aware and transferable facial dynamics from unlabeled audio-visual streams. Our approach couples masked visual modeling with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Zeyu Ling , Xiaodong Gu , Jiangnan Tang , Changqing Zou

Learning discriminative image representations plays a vital role in long-tailed image classification because it can ease the classifier learning in imbalanced cases. Given the promising performance contrastive learning has shown recently in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Peng Wang , Kai Han , Xiu-Shen Wei , Lei Zhang , Lei Wang

With wearing masks becoming a new cultural norm, facial expression recognition (FER) while taking masks into account has become a significant challenge. In this paper, we propose a unified multi-branch vision transformer for facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Armando Zhu , Keqin Li , Tong Wu , Peng Zhao , Bo Hong

Medical image classification is one of the most important tasks for computer-aided diagnosis. Deep learning models, particularly convolutional neural networks, have been successfully used for disease classification from medical images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Md. Atik Ahamed , Jin Chen , Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran

Semi-supervised learning is a sound measure to relieve the strict demand of abundant annotated datasets, especially for challenging multi-organ segmentation . However, most existing SSL methods predict pixels in a single image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Lu Wen , Zhenghao Feng , Yun Hou , Peng Wang , Xi Wu , Jiliu Zhou , Yan Wang

Contrastive representation learning has been recently proved to be very efficient for self-supervised training. These methods have been successfully used to train encoders which perform comparably to supervised training on downstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Ibrahim Merad , Yiyang Yu , Emmanuel Bacry , Stéphane Gaïffas

Person re-identification (ReID) aims at searching the same identity person among images captured by various cameras. Unsupervised person ReID attracts a lot of attention recently, due to it works without intensive manual annotation and thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Bo Pang , Deming Zhai , Junjun Jiang , Xianming Liu

Unsupervised visible-infrared person re-identification (USVI-ReID) aims to match specified people in infrared images to visible images without annotations, and vice versa. USVI-ReID is a challenging yet under-explored task. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Jiangming Shi , Xiangbo Yin , Yachao Zhang , Zhizhong Zhang , Yuan Xie , Yanyun Qu

Face Attribute Recognition (FAR) plays a crucial role in applications such as person re-identification, face retrieval, and face editing. Conventional multi-task attribute recognition methods often process the entire feature map for feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Gong Gao , Zekai Wang , Jian Zhao , Ziqi Xie , Xianhui Liu , Weidong Zhao

Improving sample efficiency is a key research problem in reinforcement learning (RL), and CURL, which uses contrastive learning to extract high-level features from raw pixels of individual video frames, is an efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Jinhua Zhu , Yingce Xia , Lijun Wu , Jiajun Deng , Wengang Zhou , Tao Qin , Houqiang Li

Multi-view representation learning has developed rapidly over the past decades and has been applied in many fields. However, most previous works assumed that each view is complete and aligned. This leads to an inevitable deterioration in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Yiming Wang , Dongxia Chang , Zhiqiang Fu , Jie Wen , Yao Zhao

As more and more people begin to wear masks due to current COVID-19 pandemic, existing face recognition systems may encounter severe performance degradation when recognizing masked faces. To figure out the impact of masks on face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Chengrui Wang , Han Fang , Yaoyao Zhong , Weihong Deng

Learning multi-label image recognition with incomplete annotation is gaining popularity due to its superior performance and significant labor savings when compared to training with fully labeled datasets. Existing literature mainly focuses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Cheng Chen , Yifan Zhao , Jia Li

Meta-learning enables learning systems to adapt quickly to new tasks, similar to humans. Different meta-learning approaches all work under/with the mini-batch episodic training framework. Such framework naturally gives the information about…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Shiguang Wu , Yaqing Wang , Yatao Bian , Quanming Yao

Face anti-spoofing (FAS) and adversarial detection (FAD) have been regarded as critical technologies to ensure the safety of face recognition systems. However, due to limited practicality, complex deployment, and the additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Jiawei Chen , Xiao Yang , Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Zhaoxia Yin