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With recent progress in graphics, it has become more tractable to train models on synthetic images, potentially avoiding the need for expensive annotations. However, learning from synthetic images may not achieve the desired performance due…

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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have greatly contributed to the performance gains in semantic segmentation. Nevertheless, training DNNs generally requires large amounts of pixel-level labeled data, which is expensive and time-consuming to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Yonghao Xu , Fengxiang He , Bo Du , Dacheng Tao , Liangpei Zhang

Recently, learning-based image synthesis has enabled to generate high-resolution images, either applying popular adversarial training or a powerful perceptual loss. However, it remains challenging to successfully leverage synthetic data for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Yang He , Bernt Schiele , Mario Fritz

Recent deep learning approaches to single image super-resolution have achieved impressive results in terms of traditional error measures and perceptual quality. However, in each case it remains challenging to achieve high quality results…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Yifan Wang , Federico Perazzi , Brian McWilliams , Alexander Sorkine-Hornung , Olga Sorkine-Hornung , Christopher Schroers

Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) are a promising approach for extracting neural network representations by learning a sparse and overcomplete decomposition of the network's internal activations. However, SAEs are traditionally trained considering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Jeffrey Olmo , Jared Wilson , Max Forsey , Bryce Hepner , Thomas Vin Howe , David Wingate

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

Training deep networks for semantic segmentation requires large amounts of labeled training data, which presents a major challenge in practice, as labeling segmentation masks is a highly labor-intensive process. To address this issue, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Lukas Hoyer , Dengxin Dai , Qin Wang , Yuhua Chen , Luc Van Gool

With the development of deep learning, supervised learning has frequently been adopted to classify remotely sensed images using convolutional networks (CNNs). However, due to the limited amount of labeled data available, supervised learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Daoyu Lin , Kun Fu , Yang Wang , Guangluan Xu , Xian Sun

Discriminative and generative vision models excel in their respective domains but remain semantically misaligned, hindering progress toward unified visual learning. We introduce LEASE (LEArning from SEmantic Dictionaries), a self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Imanol G. Estepa , Jesús M Rodríguez-de-Vera , Bhalaji Nagarajan , Petia Radeva

Self-supervised visual representation learning traditionally focuses on image-level instance discrimination. Our study introduces an innovative, fine-grained dimension by integrating patch-level discrimination into these methodologies. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Ali Javidani , Mohammad Amin Sadeghi , Babak Nadjar Araabi

Semantic edge detection (SED), which aims at jointly extracting edges as well as their category information, has far-reaching applications in domains such as semantic segmentation, object proposal generation, and object recognition. SED…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Yun Liu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Deng-Ping Fan , Le Zhang , JiaWang Bian , Dacheng Tao

In this paper, we address unsupervised pose-guided person image generation, which is known challenging due to non-rigid deformation. Unlike previous methods learning a rock-hard direct mapping between human bodies, we propose a new pathway…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Sijie Song , Wei Zhang , Jiaying Liu , Tao Mei

Unified multimodal models (UMMs) strive to consolidate visual understanding and visual generation within a single architecture. However, prevailing training paradigms independently optimize understanding via sparse text signals and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Songsong Yu , Yuxin Chen , Ying Shan , Yanwei Li

Deep neural networks can form high-level hierarchical representations of input data. Various researchers have demonstrated that these representations can be used to enable a variety of useful applications. However, such representations are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Burkay Donderici , Caleb New , Chenliang Xu

Diffusion models manifest evident benefits across diverse domains, yet their high sampling cost, requiring dozens of sequential model evaluations, remains a major limitation. Prior efforts mainly accelerate sampling via optimized solvers or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Haoran Zhao , Tong Bai , Lei Huang , Xiaoyu Liang

Deep Neural Networks have recently demonstrated promising performance in binary change detection (CD) problems in remote sensing (RS), requiring a large amount of labeled multitemporal training samples. Since collecting such data is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Jose Luis Holgado Alvarez , Mahdyar Ravanbakhsh , Begüm Demir

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a central paradigm for training foundation models by leveraging large-scale unlabeled datasets, often producing representations with strong generalization capabilities. These models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Brown Ebouky , Ajad Chhatkuli , Cristiano Malossi , Christoph Studer , Roy Assaf , Andrea Bartezzaghi

Semantic segmentation is one of the basic topics in computer vision, it aims to assign semantic labels to every pixel of an image. Unbalanced semantic label distribution could have a negative influence on segmentation accuracy. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Shuangting Liu , Jiaqi Zhang , Yuxin Chen , Yifan Liu , Zengchang Qin , Tao Wan

Deep learning has brought an unprecedented progress in computer vision and significant advances have been made in predicting subjective properties inherent to visual data (e.g., memorability, aesthetic quality, evoked emotions, etc.).…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-04 Aliaksandr Siarohin , Gloria Zen , Nicu Sebe , Elisa Ricci

Utilization of classification latent space information for downstream reconstruction and generation is an intriguing and a relatively unexplored area. In general, discriminative representations are rich in class-specific features but are…