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Medical image segmentation remains a formidable challenge due to the label scarcity. Pre-training Vision Transformer (ViT) through masked image modeling (MIM) on large-scale unlabeled medical datasets presents a promising solution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Fenghe Tang , Qingsong Yao , Wenxin Ma , Chenxu Wu , Zihang Jiang , S. Kevin Zhou

An important goal of self-supervised learning is to enable model pre-training to benefit from almost unlimited data. However, one method that has recently become popular, namely masked image modeling (MIM), is suspected to be unable to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Zhenda Xie , Zheng Zhang , Yue Cao , Yutong Lin , Yixuan Wei , Qi Dai , Han Hu

Generalizing learned representations across significantly different visual domains is a fundamental yet crucial ability of the human visual system. While recent self-supervised learning methods have achieved good performances with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Haiyang Yang , Meilin Chen , Yizhou Wang , Shixiang Tang , Feng Zhu , Lei Bai , Rui Zhao , Wanli Ouyang

Learning robust and scalable visual representations from massive multi-view video data remains a challenge in computer vision and autonomous driving. Existing pre-training methods either rely on expensive supervised learning with 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Jialv Zou , Bencheng Liao , Qian Zhang , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Multi-view camera-based 3D detection is a challenging problem in computer vision. Recent works leverage a pretrained LiDAR detection model to transfer knowledge to a camera-based student network. However, we argue that there is a major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jihao Liu , Tai Wang , Boxiao Liu , Qihang Zhang , Yu Liu , Hongsheng Li

Masked Autoencoders (MAE) achieve self-supervised learning of image representations by randomly removing a portion of visual tokens and reconstructing the original image as a pretext task, thereby significantly enhancing pretraining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jiaxuan Li , Qing Xu , Xiangjian He , Ziyu Liu , Chang Xing , Zhen Chen , Daokun Zhang , Rong Qu , Chang Wen Chen

Both masked image modeling (MIM) and natural language supervision have facilitated the progress of transferable visual pre-training. In this work, we seek the synergy between two paradigms and study the emerging properties when MIM meets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Shusheng Yang , Yixiao Ge , Kun Yi , Dian Li , Ying Shan , Xiaohu Qie , Xinggang Wang

Self-supervised visual pre-training methods face an inherent tension: contrastive learning (CL) captures global semantics but loses fine-grained detail, while masked image modeling (MIM) preserves local textures but suffers from "attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Wenzhao Xiang , Yue Wu , Hongyang Yu , Feng Gao , Fan Yang , Xilin Chen

This paper shows that masked autoencoders (MAE) are scalable self-supervised learners for computer vision. Our MAE approach is simple: we mask random patches of the input image and reconstruct the missing pixels. It is based on two core…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Kaiming He , Xinlei Chen , Saining Xie , Yanghao Li , Piotr Dollár , Ross Girshick

In this paper, we propose Mixed and Masked AutoEncoder (MixMAE), a simple but efficient pretraining method that is applicable to various hierarchical Vision Transformers. Existing masked image modeling (MIM) methods for hierarchical Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Jihao Liu , Xin Huang , Jinliang Zheng , Yu Liu , Hongsheng Li

In this work, we explore regions as a potential visual analogue of words for self-supervised image representation learning. Inspired by Masked Autoencoding (MAE), a generative pre-training baseline, we propose masked region autoencoding to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Duy-Kien Nguyen , Vaibhav Aggarwal , Yanghao Li , Martin R. Oswald , Alexander Kirillov , Cees G. M. Snoek , Xinlei Chen

We introduce MIM (Masked Image Modeling)-Refiner, a contrastive learning boost for pre-trained MIM models. MIM-Refiner is motivated by the insight that strong representations within MIM models generally reside in intermediate layers.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Benedikt Alkin , Lukas Miklautz , Sepp Hochreiter , Johannes Brandstetter

Object detection in remote sensing imagery plays a vital role in various Earth observation applications. However, unlike object detection in natural scene images, this task is particularly challenging due to the abundance of small, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Minh-Duc Vu , Zuheng Ming , Fangchen Feng , Bissmella Bahaduri , Anissa Mokraoui

How to learn discriminative video representation from unlabeled videos is challenging but crucial for video analysis. The latest attempts seek to learn a representation model by predicting the appearance contents in the masked regions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Xinyu Sun , Peihao Chen , Liangwei Chen , Changhao Li , Thomas H. Li , Mingkui Tan , Chuang Gan

Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) have emerged as a dominant strategy for self-supervised representation learning in natural images, where models are pre-trained to reconstruct masked patches with a pixel-wise mean squared error (MSE) between…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-16 Chetan Madan , Aarjav Satia , Soumen Basu , Pankaj Gupta , Usha Dutta , Chetan Arora

Recently, masked image modeling (MIM) has become a promising direction for visual pre-training. In the context of vision transformers, MIM learns effective visual representation by aligning the token-level features with a pre-defined space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Longhui Wei , Lingxi Xie , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li , Qi Tian

Masked image modeling (MIM) has achieved promising results on various vision tasks. However, the limited discriminability of learned representation manifests there is still plenty to go for making a stronger vision learner. Towards this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Zhicheng Huang , Xiaojie Jin , Chengze Lu , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng , Dongmei Fu , Xiaohui Shen , Jiashi Feng

Understanding whether self-supervised learning methods can scale with unlimited data is crucial for training large-scale models. In this work, we conduct an empirical study on the scaling capability of masked image modeling (MIM) methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Cheng-Ze Lu , Xiaojie Jin , Qibin Hou , Jun Hao Liew , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jiashi Feng

In view of the fact that semi- and self-supervised learning share a fundamental principle, effectively modeling knowledge from unlabeled data, various semi-supervised semantic segmentation methods have integrated representative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Yangyang Li , Xuanting Hao , Ronghua Shang , Licheng Jiao

Recently, self-supervised Masked Autoencoders (MAE) have attracted unprecedented attention for their impressive representation learning ability. However, the pretext task, Masked Image Modeling (MIM), reconstructs the missing local patches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Feng Liang , Yangguang Li , Diana Marculescu