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Inspired by the masked language modeling (MLM) in natural language processing tasks, the masked image modeling (MIM) has been recognized as a strong self-supervised pre-training method in computer vision. However, the high random mask ratio…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zhaowen Li , Yousong Zhu , Zhiyang Chen , Wei Li , Chaoyang Zhao , Rui Zhao , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) has achieved promising progress with the advent of Masked Autoencoders (MAE) and BEiT. However, subsequent works have complicated the framework with new auxiliary tasks or extra pre-trained models, inevitably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Yuan Liu , Songyang Zhang , Jiacheng Chen , Kai Chen , Dahua Lin

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) has garnered significant attention in self-supervised learning, thanks to its impressive capacity to learn scalable visual representations tailored for downstream tasks. However, images inherently contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Wenzhao Xiang , Chang Liu , Hongyang Yu , Xilin Chen

Self-supervised learning methods like masked autoencoders (MAE) have shown significant promise in learning robust feature representations, particularly in image reconstruction-based pretraining task. However, their performance is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Sua Lee , Joonhun Lee , Myungjoo Kang

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

Recent masked image modeling (MIM) has received much attention in self-supervised learning (SSL), which requires the target model to recover the masked part of the input image. Although MIM-based pre-training methods achieve new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Qiang Zhou , Chaohui Yu , Hao Luo , Zhibin Wang , Hao Li

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) is a powerful self-supervised strategy for visual pre-training without the use of labels. MIM applies random crops to input images, processes them with an encoder, and then recovers the masked inputs with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Maryam Haghighat , Peyman Moghadam , Shaheer Mohamed , Piotr Koniusz

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

We present a novel masked image modeling (MIM) approach, context autoencoder (CAE), for self-supervised representation pretraining. We pretrain an encoder by making predictions in the encoded representation space. The pretraining tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Xiaokang Chen , Mingyu Ding , Xiaodi Wang , Ying Xin , Shentong Mo , Yunhao Wang , Shumin Han , Ping Luo , Gang Zeng , Jingdong Wang

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

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

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

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

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

We propose ViC-MAE, a model that combines both Masked AutoEncoders (MAE) and contrastive learning. ViC-MAE is trained using a global featured obtained by pooling the local representations learned under an MAE reconstruction loss and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Jefferson Hernandez , Ruben Villegas , Vicente Ordonez

Self-supervised learning on images seeks to extract meaningful visual representations from unlabeled data. When scaled to large datasets, this paradigm has achieved state-of-the-art performance and the resulting trained models such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 David Nordström , Johan Edstedt , Fredrik Kahl , Georg Bökman

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

Masked image modeling (MIM) has been recognized as a strong self-supervised pre-training approach in the vision domain. However, the mechanism and properties of the learned representations by such a scheme, as well as how to further enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Kevin Zhang , Zhiqiang Shen

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

Masked Autoencoders (MAE) have been popular paradigms for large-scale vision representation pre-training. However, MAE solely reconstructs the low-level RGB signals after the decoder and lacks supervision upon high-level semantics for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Peng Gao , Renrui Zhang , Rongyao Fang , Ziyi Lin , Hongyang Li , Hongsheng Li , Qiao Yu