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This paper studies a conceptually simple extension of Masked Autoencoders (MAE) to spatiotemporal representation learning from videos. We randomly mask out spacetime patches in videos and learn an autoencoder to reconstruct them in pixels.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Christoph Feichtenhofer , Haoqi Fan , Yanghao Li , Kaiming He

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

Masked image modeling (MIM) has become a popular strategy for self-supervised learning~(SSL) of visual representations with Vision Transformers. A representative MIM model, the masked auto-encoder (MAE), randomly masks a subset of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Youngwan Lee , Jeffrey Willette , Jonghee Kim , Juho Lee , Sung Ju Hwang

Current video-based Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) primarily focus on learning effective spatiotemporal representations from a visual perspective, which may lead the model to prioritize general spatial-temporal patterns but often overlook…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Shihab Aaqil Ahamed , Malitha Gunawardhana , Liel David , Michael Sidorov , Daniel Harari , Muhammad Haris Khan

We present an extension to masked autoencoders (MAE) which improves on the representations learnt by the model by explicitly encouraging the learning of higher scene-level features. We do this by: (i) the introduction of a perceptual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Samyakh Tukra , Frederick Hoffman , Ken Chatfield

Masked autoencoders (MAEs) represent a prominent self-supervised learning paradigm in computer vision. Despite their empirical success, the underlying mechanisms of MAEs remain insufficiently understood. Recent studies have attempted to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Tao Huang , Yanxiang Ma , Shan You , Chang Xu

Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) achieve impressive performance in image classification tasks, yet the internal representations they learn remain less understood. This work started as an attempt to understand the strong downstream classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Anika Shrivastava , Renu Rameshan , Samar Agnihotri

Recent general-purpose audio representations show state-of-the-art performance on various audio tasks. These representations are pre-trained by self-supervised learning methods that create training signals from the input. For example,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-09 Daisuke Niizumi , Daiki Takeuchi , Yasunori Ohishi , Noboru Harada , Kunio Kashino

Self-supervised pre-training of image encoders is omnipresent in the literature, particularly following the introduction of Masked autoencoders (MAE). Current efforts attempt to learn object-centric representations from motion in videos. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Alexandre Eymaël , Renaud Vandeghen , Anthony Cioppa , Silvio Giancola , Bernard Ghanem , Marc Van Droogenbroeck

Masked AutoEncoder (MAE) has revolutionized the field of self-supervised learning with its simple yet effective masking and reconstruction strategies. However, despite achieving state-of-the-art performance across various downstream vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Xiaoyu Yue , Lei Bai , Meng Wei , Jiangmiao Pang , Xihui Liu , Luping Zhou , Wanli Ouyang

Masked autoencoders (MAEs) have established themselves as a powerful method for unsupervised pre-training for computer vision tasks. While vanilla MAEs put equal emphasis on reconstructing the individual parts of the image, we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Leon Sick , Dominik Engel , Pedro Hermosilla , Timo Ropinski

Masked AutoEncoder (MAE) has recently led the trends of visual self-supervision area by an elegant asymmetric encoder-decoder design, which significantly optimizes both the pre-training efficiency and fine-tuning accuracy. Notably, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Xiang Li , Wenhai Wang , Lingfeng Yang , Jian Yang

The development of deep learning models in medical image analysis is majorly limited by the lack of large-sized and well-annotated datasets. Unsupervised learning does not require labels and is more suitable for solving medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Zi'an Xu , Yin Dai , Fayu Liu , Weibing Chen , Yue Liu , Lifu Shi , Sheng Liu , Yuhang Zhou

Self-supervised pre-training for images without labels has recently achieved promising performance in image classification. The success of transformer-based methods, ViT and MAE, draws the community's attention to the design of backbone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Jiantao Wu , Shentong Mo

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

Large-scale self-supervised pre-training Transformer architecture have significantly boosted the performance for various tasks in natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV). However, there is a lack of researches on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Peiwang Tang , Xianchao Zhang

Masked image modeling has been demonstrated as a powerful pretext task for generating robust representations that can be effectively generalized across multiple downstream tasks. Typically, this approach involves randomly masking patches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Neelu Madan , Nicolae-Catalin Ristea , Kamal Nasrollahi , Thomas B. Moeslund , Radu Tudor Ionescu

Strong gravitational lensing can reveal the influence of dark-matter substructure in galaxies, but analyzing these effects from noisy, low-resolution images poses a significant challenge. In this work, we propose a masked autoencoder (MAE)…

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 Autoencoders (MAE) have been prevailing paradigms for large-scale vision representation pre-training. By reconstructing masked image patches from a small portion of visible image regions, MAE forces the model to infer semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Hongwei Xue , Peng Gao , Hongyang Li , Yu Qiao , Hao Sun , Houqiang Li , Jiebo Luo