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Biological brains learn continually from a stream of unlabeled data, while integrating specialized information from sparsely labeled examples without compromising their ability to generalize. Meanwhile, machine learning methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Viet Anh Khoa Tran , Emre Neftci , Willem A. M. Wybo

Contrastive representation learning has emerged as a promising technique for continual learning as it can learn representations that are robust to catastrophic forgetting and generalize well to unseen future tasks. Previous work in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Rouzbeh Meshkinnejad , Jie Mei , Daniel Lizotte , Yalda Mohsenzadeh

We introduce a self-supervised method for learning visual correspondence from unlabeled video. The main idea is to use cycle-consistency in time as free supervisory signal for learning visual representations from scratch. At training time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Xiaolong Wang , Allan Jabri , Alexei A. Efros

We propose a supervised contrastive learning framework for video representation learning that leverages temporally global context. We introduce a video to image aggregation strategy that spatially arranges multiple frames from each video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Shaif Chowdhury , Mushfika Rahman , Greg Hamerly

This paper proposes a single-stage training approach that semantically aligns three modalities - audio, visual, and text using a contrastive learning framework. Contrastive training has gained prominence for multimodal alignment, utilizing…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Parthasaarathy Sudarsanam , Irene Martín-Morató , Tuomas Virtanen

Video summarization aims to select the most informative subset of frames in a video to facilitate efficient video browsing. Unsupervised methods usually rely on heuristic training objectives such as diversity and representativeness.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Zongshang Pang , Yuta Nakashima , Mayu Otani , Hajime Nagahara

In seismic interpretation, pixel-level labels of various rock structures can be time-consuming and expensive to obtain. As a result, there oftentimes exists a non-trivial quantity of unlabeled data that is left unused simply because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Kiran Kokilepersaud , Mohit Prabhushankar , Ghassan AlRegib

Many recent approaches in representation learning implicitly assume that uncorrelated views of a data point are sufficient to learn meaningful representations for various downstream tasks. In this work, we challenge this assumption and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Puru Vaish , Felix Meister , Tobias Heimann , Christoph Brune , Jelmer M. Wolterink

Multimodal imaging and correlative analysis typically require image alignment. Contrastive learning can generate representations of multimodal images, reducing the challenging task of multimodal image registration to a monomodal one.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Elisabeth Wetzer , Joakim Lindblad , Nataša Sladoje

We focus on contrastive methods for self-supervised video representation learning. A common paradigm in contrastive learning is to construct positive pairs by sampling different data views for the same instance, with different data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Chen Sun , Arsha Nagrani , Yonglong Tian , Cordelia Schmid

Scene graphs are a powerful structured representation of the underlying content of images, and embeddings derived from them have been shown to be useful in multiple downstream tasks. In this work, we employ a graph convolutional network to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Paridhi Maheshwari , Ritwick Chaudhry , Vishwa Vinay

Contrastive self-supervised learning has attracted significant research attention recently. It learns effective visual representations from unlabeled data by embedding augmented views of the same image close to each other while pushing away…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Yichen Zhang , Yifang Yin , Ying Zhang , Roger Zimmermann

Pursuing realistic results according to human visual perception is the central concern in the image transformation tasks. Perceptual learning approaches like perceptual loss are empirically powerful for such tasks but they usually rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Kangfu Mei , Yao Lu , Qiaosi Yi , Haoyu Wu , Juncheng Li , Rui Huang

The goal of self-supervised visual representation learning is to learn strong, transferable image representations, with the majority of research focusing on object or scene level. On the other hand, representation learning at part level has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Subhabrata Choudhury , Iro Laina , Christian Rupprecht , Andrea Vedaldi

Given a similarity metric, contrastive methods learn a representation in which examples that are similar are pushed together and examples that are dissimilar are pulled apart. Contrastive learning techniques have been utilized extensively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Emily Mu , John Guttag , Maggie Makar

Contrastive learning is a powerful technique to learn representations that are semantically distinctive and geometrically invariant. While most of the earlier approaches have demonstrated its effectiveness on single-modality learning tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Anurag Jain , Yashaswi Verma

Self-supervised learning has been successfully applied to pre-train video representations, which aims at efficient adaptation from pre-training domain to downstream tasks. Existing approaches merely leverage contrastive loss to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Yuanze Lin , Xun Guo , Yan Lu

Contrastive learning is a family of self-supervised methods where a model is trained to solve a classification task constructed from unlabeled data. It has recently emerged as one of the leading learning paradigms in the absence of labels…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-05 Bingbin Liu , Pradeep Ravikumar , Andrej Risteski

Learning time-series representations when only unlabeled data or few labeled samples are available can be a challenging task. Recently, contrastive self-supervised learning has shown great improvement in extracting useful representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Emadeldeen Eldele , Mohamed Ragab , Zhenghua Chen , Min Wu , Chee-Keong Kwoh , Xiaoli Li , Cuntai Guan

Deep clustering against self-supervised learning is a very important and promising direction for unsupervised visual representation learning since it requires little domain knowledge to design pretext tasks. However, the key component,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Weijie Chen , Shiliang Pu , Di Xie , Shicai Yang , Yilu Guo , Luojun Lin