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This paper presents a novel approach to learn and detect distinctive regions on 3D shapes. Unlike previous works, which require labeled data, our method is unsupervised. We conduct the analysis on point sets sampled from 3D shapes, then…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Xianzhi Li , Lequan Yu , Chi-Wing Fu , Daniel Cohen-Or , Pheng-Ann Heng

Unsupervised learning methods have a soft inspiration in cognition models. To this day, the most successful unsupervised learning methods revolve around clustering samples in a mathematical space. In this paper we propose a primitive-based,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Alfredo Ibias , Hector Antona , Guillem Ramirez-Miranda , Enric Guinovart , Eduard Alarcon

Supervised learning, characterized by both discriminative and generative learning, seeks to predict the values of single (or sometimes multiple) predefined target attributes based on a predefined set of predictor attributes. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Yuan Jin , Wray Buntine , Francois Petitjean , Geoffrey I. Webb

Current color fundus image registration approaches are limited, among other things, by the lack of labeled data, which is even more significant in the medical domain, motivating the use of unsupervised learning. Therefore, in this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 David Rivas-Villar , Álvaro S. Hervella , José Rouco , Jorge Novo

This paper introduces a new algorithm for unsupervised learning of keypoint detectors and descriptors, which demonstrates fast convergence and good performance across different datasets. The training procedure uses homographic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Anatoly Belikov , Alexey Potapov

We propose a novel system for unsupervised skeleton-based action recognition. Given inputs of body keypoints sequences obtained during various movements, our system associates the sequences with actions. Our system is based on an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Kun Su , Xiulong Liu , Eli Shlizerman

Supervised Learning has been successfully used to produce phase diagrams and identify phase boundaries when local order parameters are unavailable. Here, we apply unsupervised learning to this task. By using readily available clustering…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-19 Steven Durr , Sudip Chakravarty

Locating semantically meaningful landmark points is a crucial component of a large number of computer vision pipelines. Because of the small number of available datasets with ground truth landmark annotations, it is important to design…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Rahul Rahaman , Atin Ghosh , Alexandre H. Thiery

In many machine learning applications, labeling datasets can be an arduous and time-consuming task. Although research has shown that semi-supervised learning techniques can achieve high accuracy with very few labels within the field of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Evelyn J. Mannix , Howard D. Bondell

We introduce an unsupervised multi-task model to jointly learn point and shape features on point clouds. We define three unsupervised tasks including clustering, reconstruction, and self-supervised classification to train a multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Kaveh Hassani , Mike Haley

Learning from limited exemplars (few-shot learning) is a fundamental, unsolved problem that has been laboriously explored in the machine learning community. However, current few-shot learners are mostly supervised and rely heavily on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Zilong Ji , Xiaolong Zou , Tiejun Huang , Si Wu

Instance perception tasks (object detection, instance segmentation, pose estimation, counting) play a key role in industrial applications of visual models. As supervised learning methods suffer from high labeling cost, few-shot learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Sheng Jin , Ruijie Yao , Lumin Xu , Wentao Liu , Chen Qian , Ji Wu , Ping Luo

Unsupervised retrieval of image features is vital for many computer vision tasks where the annotation is missing or scarce. In this work, we propose a new unsupervised approach to detect the landmarks in images, validating it on the popular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Iaroslav Bespalov , Nazar Buzun , Dmitry V. Dylov

We introduce a new paradigm to investigate unsupervised learning, reducing unsupervised learning to supervised learning. Specifically, we mitigate the subjectivity in unsupervised decision-making by leveraging knowledge acquired from prior,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-04 Vikas K. Garg , Adam Tauman Kalai

Deep Learning models have shown remarkable performance in a broad range of vision tasks. However, they are often vulnerable against domain shifts at test-time. Test-time training (TTT) methods have been developed in an attempt to mitigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Gustavo A. Vargas Hakim , David Osowiechi , Mehrdad Noori , Milad Cheraghalikhani , Ismail Ben Ayed , Christian Desrosiers

Understanding and representing the structure of 3D objects in an unsupervised manner remains a core challenge in computer vision and graphics. Most existing unsupervised keypoint methods are not designed for unconditional generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Rhys Newbury , Juyan Zhang , Tin Tran , Hanna Kurniawati , Dana Kulić

Multi-step manipulation tasks where robots interact with their environment and must apply process forces based on the perceived situation remain challenging to learn and prone to execution errors. Accurately simulating these tasks is also…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Christoph Willibald , Dongheui Lee

Analyzing and training 3D body posture models depend heavily on the availability of joint labels that are commonly acquired through laborious manual annotation of body joints or via marker-based joint localization using carefully curated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Sina Honari , Chen Zhao , Mathieu Salzmann , Pascal Fua

We study a challenging problem of unsupervised discovery of object landmarks. Many recent methods rely on bottlenecks to generate 2D Gaussian heatmaps however, these are limited in generating informed heatmaps while training, presumably due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Mamona Awan , Muhammad Haris Khan , Sanoojan Baliah , Muhammad Ahmad Waseem , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Arif Mahmood

Unsupervised object discovery is commonly interpreted as the task of localizing and/or categorizing objects in visual data without the need for labeled examples. While current object recognition methods have proven highly effective for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 José-Fabian Villa-Vásquez , Marco Pedersoli