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Deep neural networks have demonstrated their ability to automatically extract meaningful features from data. However, in supervised learning, information specific to the dataset used for training, but irrelevant to the task at hand, may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-23 David Bertoin , Emmanuel Rachelson

Self-supervised learning has recently shown great potential in vision tasks through contrastive learning, which aims to discriminate each image, or instance, in the dataset. However, such instance-level learning ignores the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Tsai-Shien Chen , Wei-Chih Hung , Hung-Yu Tseng , Shao-Yi Chien , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Deep learning models for dermatological image analysis remain sensitive to acquisition variability and domain-specific visual characteristics, leading to performance degradation when deployed in clinical settings. We investigate how visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Rodrigo Mota , Kelvin Cunha , Emanoel dos Santos , Fábio Papais , Francisco Filho , Thales Bezerra , Erico Medeiros , Paulo Borba , Tsang Ing Ren

Contrastive learning is a discriminative approach that aims at grouping similar samples closer and diverse samples far from each other. It it an efficient technique to train an encoder generating distinguishable and informative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Qing Chen , Jian Zhang

Ultrasound (US) image segmentation embraced its significant improvement in deep learning era. However, the lack of sharp boundaries in US images still remains an inherent challenge for segmentation. Previous methods often resort to global…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-13 Haoming Li , Xin Yang , Jiamin Liang , Wenlong Shi , Chaoyu Chen , Haoran Dou , Rui Li , Rui Gao , Guangquan Zhou , Jinghui Fang , Xiaowen Liang , Ruobing Huang , Alejandro Frangi , Zhiyi Chen , Dong Ni

Negative-free contrastive learning methods have attracted a lot of attention with simplicity and impressive performances for large-scale pretraining. However, its disentanglement property remains unexplored. In this paper, we examine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Jinkun Cao , Ruiqian Nai , Qing Yang , Jialei Huang , Yang Gao

Contrastive learning methods for unsupervised visual representation learning have reached remarkable levels of transfer performance. We argue that the power of contrastive learning has yet to be fully unleashed, as current methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Zhenda Xie , Yutong Lin , Zheng Zhang , Yue Cao , Stephen Lin , Han Hu

Unsupervised Contrastive learning has gained prominence in fields such as vision, and biology, leveraging predefined positive/negative samples for representation learning. Data augmentation, categorized into hand-designed and model-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zelin Zang , Hao Luo , Kai Wang , Panpan Zhang , Fan Wang , Stan. Z Li , Yang You

What role do augmentations play in contrastive learning? Recent work suggests that good augmentations are label-preserving with respect to a specific downstream task. We complicate this picture by showing that label-destroying augmentations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Alex Tamkin , Margalit Glasgow , Xiluo He , Noah Goodman

Contrastive learning is among the most popular and powerful approaches for self-supervised representation learning, where the goal is to map semantically similar samples close together while separating dissimilar ones in the latent space.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-03 Ali Alvandi , Mina Rezaei

A key requirement for the success of supervised deep learning is a large labeled dataset - a condition that is difficult to meet in medical image analysis. Self-supervised learning (SSL) can help in this regard by providing a strategy to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Krishna Chaitanya , Ertunc Erdil , Neerav Karani , Ender Konukoglu

In image-to-image translation, each patch in the output should reflect the content of the corresponding patch in the input, independent of domain. We propose a straightforward method for doing so -- maximizing mutual information between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Taesung Park , Alexei A. Efros , Richard Zhang , Jun-Yan Zhu

Continual learning (CL) aims to train models sequentially over multiple domains without forgetting previously learned knowledge. However, existing CL methods optimize for in-domain performance and are therefore prone to learning spurious,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Pascal Janetzky , Tobias Schlagenhauf , Stefan Feuerriegel

In recent years, object detection has shown impressive results using supervised deep learning, but it remains challenging in a cross-domain environment. The variations of illumination, style, scale, and appearance in different domains can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Rongchang Xie , Fei Yu , Jiachao Wang , Yizhou Wang , Li Zhang

Contrastive learning has recently demonstrated superior performance to supervised learning, despite requiring no training labels. We explore how contrastive learning can be applied to hundreds of thousands of unlabeled Mars terrain images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Isaac Ronald Ward , Charles Moore , Kai Pak , Jingdao Chen , Edwin Goh

Cross-domain disentanglement is the problem of learning representations partitioned into domain-invariant and domain-specific representations, which is a key to successful domain transfer or measuring semantic distance between two domains.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 HyeongJoo Hwang , Geon-Hyeong Kim , Seunghoon Hong , Kee-Eung Kim

Image-based object pose estimation sounds amazing because in real applications the shape of object is oftentimes not available or not easy to take like photos. Although it is an advantage to some extent, un-explored shape information in 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Zhidan Liu , Zhen Xing , Xiangdong Zhou , Yijiang Chen , Guichun Zhou

Applying an object detector, which is neither trained nor fine-tuned on data close to the final application, often leads to a substantial performance drop. In order to overcome this problem, it is necessary to consider a shift between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Alexey Abramov , Christopher Bayer , Claudio Heller

Contrastive representation learning seeks to acquire useful representations by estimating the shared information between multiple views of data. Here, the choice of data augmentation is sensitive to the quality of learned representations:…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-18 Kyungmin Lee , Jinwoo Shin

Self-supervised contrastive learning is an effective approach for addressing the challenge of limited labelled data. This study builds upon the previously established two-stage patch-level, multi-label classification method for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Salma Haidar , José Oramas