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Modern applications such as self-driving cars and drones rely heavily upon robust object detection techniques. However, weather corruptions can hinder the object detectability and pose a serious threat to their navigation and reliability.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-06 Aboli Marathe , Pushkar Jain , Rahee Walambe , Ketan Kotecha

Unpaired image-to-image translation aims to find a mapping between the source domain and the target domain. To alleviate the problem of the lack of supervised labels for the source images, cycle-consistency based methods have been proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Yupei Lin , Sen Zhang , Tianshui Chen , Yongyi Lu , Guangping Li , Yukai Shi

To improve performance in visual feature representation from photos or videos for practical applications, we generally require large-scale human-annotated labeled data while training deep neural networks. However, the cost of gathering and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Zhenyuan Lu

In standard supervised machine learning, it is necessary to provide a label for every input in the data. While raw data in many application domains is easily obtainable on the Internet, manual labelling of this data is prohibitively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Konstantinos Christopher Tsiolis

The DETR object detection approach applies the transformer encoder and decoder architecture to detect objects and achieves promising performance. In this paper, we present a simple approach to address the main problem of DETR, the slow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Seyed Mehdi Iranmanesh , Xiaotong Chen , Kuo-Chin Lien

In recent years, deep learning methods bring incredible progress to the field of object detection. However, in the field of remote sensing image processing, existing methods neglect the relationship between imaging configuration and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Nuo Xu , Chunlei Huo , Jiacheng Guo , Yiwei Liu , Jian Wang , Chunhong Pan

Visual quality inspection in high performance manufacturing can benefit from automation, due to cost savings and improved rigor. Deep learning techniques are the current state of the art for generic computer vision tasks like classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Ahmad Mohamad Mezher , Andrew E. Marble

We propose a framework using contrastive learning as a pre-training task to perform image classification in the presence of noisy labels. Recent strategies such as pseudo-labeling, sample selection with Gaussian Mixture models, weighted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Madalina Ciortan , Romain Dupuis , Thomas Peel

Digital camera pipelines employ color constancy methods to estimate an unknown scene illuminant, in order to re-illuminate images as if they were acquired under an achromatic light source. Fully-supervised learning approaches exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Steven McDonagh , Sarah Parisot , Fengwei Zhou , Xing Zhang , Ales Leonardis , Zhenguo Li , Gregory Slabaugh

Contrastive learning operates on a simple yet effective principle: Embeddings of positive pairs are pulled together, while those of negative pairs are pushed apart. In this paper, we propose a unified framework for understanding contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Chungpa Lee , Sehee Lim , Kibok Lee , Jy-yong Sohn

Self-supervised visual representation learning aims to learn useful representations without relying on human annotations. Joint embedding approach bases on maximizing the agreement between embedding vectors from different views of the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Li Jing , Pascal Vincent , Yann LeCun , Yuandong Tian

Contrastive learning relies on an assumption that positive pairs contain related views, e.g., patches of an image or co-occurring multimodal signals of a video, that share certain underlying information about an instance. But what if this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Ching-Yao Chuang , R Devon Hjelm , Xin Wang , Vibhav Vineet , Neel Joshi , Antonio Torralba , Stefanie Jegelka , Yale Song

Although 3D-aware GANs based on neural radiance fields have achieved competitive performance, their applicability is still limited to objects or scenes with the ground-truths or prediction models for clearly defined canonical camera poses.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Mijeong Kim , Hyunjoon Lee , Bohyung Han

Object counting has progressed from class-specific models, which count only known categories, to class-agnostic models that generalize to unseen categories. The next challenge is Referring Expression Counting (REC), where the goal is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Kostas Triaridis , Panagiotis Kaliosis , E-Ro Nguyen , Jingyi Xu , Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras

Accurate and fast extraction of foreground object is a key prerequisite for a wide range of computer vision applications such as object tracking and recognition. Thus, enormous background subtraction methods for foreground object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Dongdong Zeng , Ming Zhu , Arjan Kuijper

Underwater image restoration attracts significant attention due to its importance in unveiling the underwater world. This paper elaborates on a novel method that achieves state-of-the-art results for underwater image restoration based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Junlin Han , Mehrdad Shoeiby , Tim Malthus , Elizabeth Botha , Janet Anstee , Saeed Anwar , Ran Wei , Lars Petersson , Mohammad Ali Armin

Contrastive learning is a popular form of self-supervised learning that encourages augmentations (views) of the same input to have more similar representations compared to augmentations of different inputs. Recent attempts to theoretically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Nikunj Saunshi , Jordan Ash , Surbhi Goel , Dipendra Misra , Cyril Zhang , Sanjeev Arora , Sham Kakade , Akshay Krishnamurthy

Recently, contrastive learning approaches (e.g., CLIP (Radford et al., 2021)) have received huge success in multimodal learning, where the model tries to minimize the distance between the representations of different views (e.g., image and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Yunwei Ren , Yuanzhi Li

Semantic segmentation plays a crucial role in enabling comprehensive scene understanding for robotic systems. However, generating annotations is challenging, requiring labels for every pixel in an image. In scenarios like autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Mostafa ElAraby , Ali Harakeh , Liam Paull

Continuous/Lifelong learning of high-dimensional data streams is a challenging research problem. In fact, fully retraining models each time new data become available is infeasible, due to computational and storage issues, while na\"ive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Vincenzo Lomonaco , Davide Maltoni