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Continual learning aims to learn new tasks incrementally using less computation and memory resources instead of retraining the model from scratch whenever new task arrives. However, existing approaches are designed in supervised fashion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

The advent of graph convolutional network (GCN)-based multi-view learning provides a powerful framework for integrating structural information from heterogeneous views, enabling effective modeling of complex multi-view data. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Huaiyuan Xiao , Fadi Dornaika , Jingjun Bi

In visual recognition tasks, such as image classification, unsupervised learning exploits cheap unlabeled data and can help to solve these tasks more efficiently. We show that the recursive autoconvolution operator, adopted from physics,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Boris Knyazev , Erhardt Barth , Thomas Martinetz

Unsupervised image classification, or image clustering, aims to group unlabeled images into semantically meaningful categories. Early methods integrated representation learning and clustering within an iterative framework. However, the rise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Melih Baydar , Emre Akbas

Over the last years, deep convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) have transformed the field of computer vision thanks to their unparalleled capacity to learn high level semantic image features. However, in order to successfully learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Spyros Gidaris , Praveer Singh , Nikos Komodakis

Unsupervised semantic segmentation aims to categorize each pixel in an image into a corresponding class without the use of annotated data. It is a widely researched area as obtaining labeled datasets is expensive. While previous works in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Yau Shing Jonathan Cheung , Xi Chen , Lihe Yang , Hengshuang Zhao

Image clustering is to group a set of images into disjoint clusters in a way that images in the same cluster are more similar to each other than to those in other clusters, which is an unsupervised or semi-supervised learning process. It is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Bo Dong , Xinnian Wang

Most of the proposed person re-identification algorithms conduct supervised training and testing on single labeled datasets with small size, so directly deploying these trained models to a large-scale real-world camera network may lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Jianming Lv , Weihang Chen , Qing Li , Can Yang

Fine-grained categorisation has been a challenging problem due to small inter-class variation, large intra-class variation and low number of training images. We propose a learning system which first clusters visually similar classes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Zongyuan Ge , Christopher Mccool , Conrad Sanderson , Peter Corke

Supervised person re-identification (re-id) approaches require a large amount of pairwise manual labeled data, which is not applicable in most real-world scenarios for re-id deployment. On the other hand, unsupervised re-id methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Wenjing Gao , Minxian Li

Deep convolutional networks have proven to be very successful in learning task specific features that allow for unprecedented performance on various computer vision tasks. Training of such networks follows mostly the supervised learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Alexey Dosovitskiy , Philipp Fischer , Jost Tobias Springenberg , Martin Riedmiller , Thomas Brox

Deep clustering has shown its promising capability in joint representation learning and clustering via deep neural networks. Despite the significant progress, the existing deep clustering works mostly utilize some distribution-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Yuankun Xu , Dong Huang , Chang-Dong Wang , Jian-Huang Lai

Unsupervised feature selection (FS) is essential for high-dimensional learning tasks where labels are not available. It helps reduce noise, improve generalization, and enhance interpretability. However, most existing unsupervised FS methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Shira Lifshitz , Ofir Lindenbaum , Gal Mishne , Ron Meir , Hadas Benisty

Contrastive learning methods have significantly narrowed the gap between supervised and unsupervised learning on computer vision tasks. In this paper, we explore their application to geo-located datasets, e.g. remote sensing, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Kumar Ayush , Burak Uzkent , Chenlin Meng , Kumar Tanmay , Marshall Burke , David Lobell , Stefano Ermon

Convolutional Neural Networks have reached extremely high performances on the Face Recognition task. Largely used datasets, such as VGGFace2, focus on gender, pose and age variations trying to balance them to achieve better results.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Fabio Valerio Massoli , Giuseppe Amato , Fabrizio Falchi

Blind image deblurring (BID) remains a challenging and significant task. Benefiting from the strong fitting ability of deep learning, paired data-driven supervised BID method has obtained great progress. However, paired data are usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Suiyi Zhao , Zhao Zhang , Richang Hong , Mingliang Xu , Yi Yang , Meng Wang

Unsupervised image clustering methods often introduce alternative objectives to indirectly train the model and are subject to faulty predictions and overconfident results. To overcome these challenges, the current research proposes an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Sungwon Park , Sungwon Han , Sundong Kim , Danu Kim , Sungkyu Park , Seunghoon Hong , Meeyoung Cha

Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning has proven effective in deriving high-quality representations from unlabeled data. However, a major challenge that hinders both unimodal and multimodal contrastive learning is feature suppression, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jihai Zhang , Xiang Lan , Xiaoye Qu , Yu Cheng , Mengling Feng , Bryan Hooi

While metric learning is important for Person re-identification (RE-ID), a significant problem in visual surveillance for cross-view pedestrian matching, existing metric models for RE-ID are mostly based on supervised learning that requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Hong-Xing Yu , Ancong Wu , Wei-Shi Zheng

The challenge of unsupervised person re-identification (ReID) lies in learning discriminative features without true labels. This paper formulates unsupervised person ReID as a multi-label classification task to progressively seek true…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Dongkai Wang , Shiliang Zhang