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Cutting-edge research in facial expression recognition (FER) currently favors the utilization of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) backbone which is supervisedly pre-trained on face recognition datasets for feature extraction. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Fan Zhang , Xiaobao Guo , Xiaojiang Peng , Alex Kot

We present an approach to efficiently and effectively adapt a masked image modeling (MIM) pre-trained vanilla Vision Transformer (ViT) for object detection, which is based on our two novel observations: (i) A MIM pre-trained vanilla ViT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Yuxin Fang , Shusheng Yang , Shijie Wang , Yixiao Ge , Ying Shan , Xinggang Wang

Masked image modeling (MIM) performs strongly in pre-training large vision Transformers (ViTs). However, small models that are critical for real-world applications cannot or only marginally benefit from this pre-training approach. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Sucheng Ren , Fangyun Wei , Zheng Zhang , Han Hu

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) offers a promising approach to self-supervised representation learning, however existing MIM models still lag behind the state-of-the-art. In this paper, we systematically analyze target representations, loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Timothée Darcet , Federico Baldassarre , Maxime Oquab , Julien Mairal , Piotr Bojanowski

Masked image modeling (MIM) learns visual representation by masking and reconstructing image patches. Applying the reconstruction supervision on the CLIP representation has been proven effective for MIM. However, it is still under-explored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Xinyu Zhang , Jiahui Chen , Junkun Yuan , Qiang Chen , Jian Wang , Xiaodi Wang , Shumin Han , Xiaokang Chen , Jimin Pi , Kun Yao , Junyu Han , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang

In vision-language pre-training (VLP), masked image modeling (MIM) has recently been introduced for fine-grained cross-modal alignment. However, in most existing methods, the reconstruction targets for MIM lack high-level semantics, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Haowei Liu , Yaya Shi , Haiyang Xu , Chunfeng Yuan , Qinghao Ye , Chenliang Li , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Fei Huang , Bing Li , Weiming Hu

In the realm of self-supervised learning (SSL), masked image modeling (MIM) has gained popularity alongside contrastive learning methods. MIM involves reconstructing masked regions of input images using their unmasked portions. A notable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Tianqi Du , Yifei Wang , Yisen Wang

Learning representations that transfer well to diverse downstream tasks remains a central challenge in representation learning. Existing paradigms -- contrastive learning, self-supervised masking, and denoising auto-encoders -- balance this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Micha Livne

Image BERT pre-training with masked image modeling (MIM) becomes a popular practice to cope with self-supervised representation learning. A seminal work, BEiT, casts MIM as a classification task with a visual vocabulary, tokenizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Xiaotong Li , Yixiao Ge , Kun Yi , Zixuan Hu , Ying Shan , Ling-Yu Duan

To make sense of their surroundings, intelligent systems must transform complex sensory inputs to structured codes that are reduced to task-relevant information such as object category. Biological agents achieve this in a largely autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Robin Weiler , Matthias Brucklacher , Cyriel M. A. Pennartz , Sander M. Bohté

Recently, masked image modeling (MIM) has gained considerable attention due to its capacity to learn from vast amounts of unlabeled data and has been demonstrated to be effective on a wide variety of vision tasks involving natural images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Zekai Chen , Devansh Agarwal , Kshitij Aggarwal , Wiem Safta , Samit Hirawat , Venkat Sethuraman , Mariann Micsinai Balan , Kevin Brown

Masked image modeling (MIM) with transformer backbones has recently been exploited as a powerful self-supervised pre-training technique. The existing MIM methods adopt the strategy to mask random patches of the image and reconstruct the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Zhaohu Xing , Lei Zhu , Lequan Yu , Zhiheng Xing , Liang Wan

Masked image modeling (MIM) has become a prevalent pre-training setup for vision foundation models and attains promising performance. Despite its success, existing MIM methods discard the decoder network during downstream applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Qi Han , Yuxuan Cai , Xiangyu Zhang

Text images are unique in their dual nature, encompassing both visual and linguistic information. The visual component encompasses structural and appearance-based features, while the linguistic dimension incorporates contextual and semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yifei Zhang , Chang Liu , Jin Wei , Xiaomeng Yang , Yu Zhou , Can Ma , Xiangyang Ji

Learning representations that generalize well to unknown downstream tasks is a central challenge in representation learning. Existing approaches such as contrastive learning, self-supervised masking, and denoising auto-encoders address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Micha Livne

Masked image modeling (MIM) pre-training for large-scale vision transformers (ViTs) has enabled promising downstream performance on top of the learned self-supervised ViT features. In this paper, we question if the \textit{extremely simple}…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Jin Gao , Shubo Lin , Shaoru Wang , Yutong Kou , Zeming Li , Liang Li , Congxuan Zhang , Xiaoqin Zhang , Yizheng Wang , Weiming Hu

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) is a self-supervised learning technique that involves masking portions of an image, such as pixels, patches, or latent representations, and training models to predict the missing information using the visible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Shabnam Choudhury , Akhil Vasim , Michael Schmitt , Biplab Banerjee

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) has emerged as a powerful self-supervised learning paradigm for visual representation learning, enabling models to acquire rich visual representations by predicting masked portions of images from their visible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Jinhong Lin , Cheng-En Wu , Huanran Li , Jifan Zhang , Yu Hen Hu , Pedro Morgado

Masked image modelling (MIM) is a powerful self-supervised representation learning paradigm, whose potential has not been widely demonstrated in medical image analysis. In this work, we show the capacity of MIM to capture rich semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Piotr Wójcik , Hussein Naji , Adrian Simon , Reinhard Büttner , Katarzyna Bożek

Recently, Masked Image Modeling (MIM) achieves great success in self-supervised visual recognition. However, as a reconstruction-based framework, it is still an open question to understand how MIM works, since MIM appears very different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Xiangwen Kong , Xiangyu Zhang