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We learn, in an unsupervised way, an embedding from sequences of radar images that is suitable for solving the place recognition problem with complex radar data. Our method is based on invariant instance feature learning but is tailored for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Matthew Gadd , Daniele De Martini , Paul Newman

For robots to operate robustly in the real world, they should be aware of their uncertainty. However, most methods for object pose estimation return a single point estimate of the object's pose. In this work, we propose two learned methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Brian Okorn , Mengyun Xu , Martial Hebert , David Held

High annotation costs and limited labels for dense 3D medical imaging tasks have recently motivated an assortment of 3D self-supervised pretraining methods that improve transfer learning performance. However, these methods commonly lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Yejia Zhang , Pengfei Gu , Nishchal Sapkota , Hao Zheng , Peixian Liang , Danny Z. Chen

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has made enormous progress and largely narrowed the gap with the supervised ones, where the representation learning is mainly guided by a projection into an embedding space. During the projection, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Lang Huang , Shan You , Mingkai Zheng , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Learning with complete or partial supervision is powerful but relies on ever-growing human annotation efforts. As a way to mitigate this serious problem, as well as to serve specific applications, unsupervised learning has emerged as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Huy V. Vo , Francis Bach , Minsu Cho , Kai Han , Yann LeCun , Patrick Perez , Jean Ponce

We address the problem of learning self-supervised representations from unlabeled image collections. Unlike existing approaches that attempt to learn useful features by maximizing similarity between augmented versions of each input image or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Omiros Pantazis , Gabriel Brostow , Kate Jones , Oisin Mac Aodha

Self-supervised learning of convolutional neural networks can harness large amounts of cheap unlabeled data to train powerful feature representations. As surrogate task, we jointly address ordering of visual data in the spatial and temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Uta Büchler , Biagio Brattoli , Björn Ommer

In this paper, we investigate a new framework for image classification that adaptively generates spatial representations. Our strategy is based on a sequential process that learns to explore the different regions of any image in order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-12 Gabriel Dulac-Arnold , Ludovic Denoyer , Nicolas Thome , Matthieu Cord , Patrick Gallinari

Extracting discriminative local features that are invariant to imaging variations is an integral part of establishing correspondences between images. In this work, we introduce a self-supervised learning framework to extract discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Jongmin Lee , Byungjin Kim , Seungwook Kim , Minsu Cho

In this paper we explore the applicability of the unsupervised machine learning technique of Self Organizing Maps (SOM) to estimate galaxy photometric redshift probability density functions (PDFs). This technique takes a spectroscopic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 M. Carrasco Kind , R. J. Brunner

Existing unsupervised image alignment methods exhibit limited accuracy and high computational complexity. To address these challenges, we propose a dense cross-scale image alignment model. It takes into account the correlations between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Jinkun You , Jiaxue Li , Jie Zhang , Yicong Zhou

In this paper we address the problem of matching two images with two different resolutions: a high-resolution image and a low-resolution one. The difference in resolution between the two images is not known and without loss of generality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yves Dufournaud , Cordelia Schmid , Radu Horaud

3D human shape and pose estimation from monocular images has been an active area of research in computer vision, having a substantial impact on the development of new applications, from activity recognition to creating virtual avatars.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Xiangyu Xu , Hao Chen , Francesc Moreno-Noguer , Laszlo A. Jeni , Fernando De la Torre

Reconstruction of 3D neural fields from posed images has emerged as a promising method for self-supervised representation learning. The key challenge preventing the deployment of these 3D scene learners on large-scale video data is their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Cameron Smith , Yilun Du , Ayush Tewari , Vincent Sitzmann

Visual localization on standard-definition (SD) maps has emerged as a promising low-cost and scalable solution for autonomous driving. However, existing regression-based approaches often overlook inherent geometric priors, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Xuchang Zhong , Xu Cao , Jinke Feng , Hao Fang

There is a growing interest in developing computer vision methods that can learn from limited supervision. In this paper, we consider the problem of learning to predict camera viewpoints, where obtaining ground-truth annotations are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Octave Mariotti , Hakan Bilen

Accurate and robust image-based geo-localization at a global scale is challenging due to diverse environments, visually ambiguous scenes, and the lack of distinctive landmarks in many regions. While contrastive learning methods show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Boyi Chen , Zhangyu Wang , Fabian Deuser , Johann Maximilian Zollner , Martin Werner

The task of three-dimensional (3D) human pose estimation from a single image can be divided into two parts: (1) Two-dimensional (2D) human joint detection from the image and (2) estimating a 3D pose from the 2D joints. Herein, we focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Yasunori Kudo , Keisuke Ogaki , Yusuke Matsui , Yuri Odagiri

Differentiable rendering aims to compute the derivative of the image rendering function with respect to the rendering parameters. This paper presents a novel algorithm for 6-DoF pose estimation through gradient-based optimization using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Ramchander Rao Bhaskara , Roshan Thomas Eapen , Manoranjan Majji

Unsupervised landmark learning is the task of learning semantic keypoint-like representations without the use of expensive input keypoint-level annotations. A popular approach is to factorize an image into a pose and appearance data stream,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Aysegul Dundar , Kevin J. Shih , Animesh Garg , Robert Pottorf , Andrew Tao , Bryan Catanzaro