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We propose a novel framework for image clustering that incorporates joint representation learning and clustering. Our method consists of two heads that share the same backbone network - a "representation learning" head and a "clustering"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Kien Do , Truyen Tran , Svetha Venkatesh

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) has gained significant popularity since it relies only on weak labels such as image level annotations rather than pixel level annotations required by supervised semantic segmentation (SSS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Kunhao Yuan , Gerald Schaefer , Yu-Kun Lai , Yifan Wang , Xiyao Liu , Lin Guan , Hui Fang

Self-supervised learning based on instance discrimination has shown remarkable progress. In particular, contrastive learning, which regards each image as well as its augmentations as an individual class and tries to distinguish them from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Haohang Xu , Xiaopeng Zhang , Hao Li , Lingxi Xie , Hongkai Xiong , Qi Tian

Learning visual representation of high quality is essential for image classification. Recently, a series of contrastive representation learning methods have achieved preeminent success. Particularly, SupCon outperformed the dominant methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Sungho Park , Jewook Lee , Pilhyeon Lee , Sunhee Hwang , Dohyung Kim , Hyeran Byun

In visual Reinforcement Learning (RL), learning from pixel-based observations poses significant challenges on sample efficiency, primarily due to the complexity of extracting informative state representations from high-dimensional data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Jiarui Sun , M. Ugur Akcal , Wei Zhang , Girish Chowdhary

Learning robust representations to discriminate cell phenotypes based on microscopy images is important for drug discovery. Drug development efforts typically analyse thousands of cell images to screen for potential treatments. Early works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Alexis Perakis , Ali Gorji , Samriddhi Jain , Krishna Chaitanya , Simone Rizza , Ender Konukoglu

We present federated momentum contrastive clustering (FedMCC), a learning framework that can not only extract discriminative representations over distributed local data but also perform data clustering. In FedMCC, a transformed data pair…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Runxuan Miao , Erdem Koyuncu

Clustering is a ubiquitous tool in unsupervised learning. Most of the existing self-supervised representation learning methods typically cluster samples based on visually dominant features. While this works well for image-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Huseyin Coskun , Alireza Zareian , Joshua L. Moore , Federico Tombari , Chen Wang

This paper presents Prototypical Contrastive Learning (PCL), an unsupervised representation learning method that addresses the fundamental limitations of instance-wise contrastive learning. PCL not only learns low-level features for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Junnan Li , Pan Zhou , Caiming Xiong , Steven C. H. Hoi

We introduce CAN, a simple, efficient and scalable method for self-supervised learning of visual representations. Our framework is a minimal and conceptually clean synthesis of (C) contrastive learning, (A) masked autoencoders, and (N) the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Shlok Mishra , Joshua Robinson , Huiwen Chang , David Jacobs , Aaron Sarna , Aaron Maschinot , Dilip Krishnan

Contrastive learning has achieved great success in self-supervised visual representation learning, but existing approaches mostly ignored spatial information which is often crucial for visual representation. This paper presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Xinyue Huo , Lingxi Xie , Longhui Wei , Xiaopeng Zhang , Hao Li , Zijie Yang , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li , Qi Tian

Learning medical visual representations directly from paired images and reports through multimodal self-supervised learning has emerged as a novel and efficient approach to digital diagnosis in recent years. However, existing models suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Libin Lan , Hongxing Li , Zunhui Xia , Juan Zhou , Xiaofei Zhu , Yongmei Li , Yudong Zhang , Xin Luo

As an exemplary self-supervised approach for representation learning, time-series contrastive learning has exhibited remarkable advancements in contemporary research. While recent contrastive learning strategies have focused on how to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Xiyuan Jin , Jing Wang , Lei Liu , Youfang Lin

Contrastive learning-based methods, such as unsup-SimCSE, have achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performances in learning unsupervised sentence embeddings. However, in previous studies, each embedding used for contrastive learning only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Hongliang He , Junlei Zhang , Zhenzhong Lan , Yue Zhang

Contrastive learning has become a key component of self-supervised learning approaches for computer vision. By learning to embed two augmented versions of the same image close to each other and to push the embeddings of different images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Yannis Kalantidis , Mert Bulent Sariyildiz , Noe Pion , Philippe Weinzaepfel , Diane Larlus

Contrastive instance discrimination methods outperform supervised learning in downstream tasks such as image classification and object detection. However, these methods rely heavily on data augmentation during representation learning, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Mohammad Alkhalefi , Georgios Leontidis , Mingjun Zhong

Deep clustering against self-supervised learning is a very important and promising direction for unsupervised visual representation learning since it requires little domain knowledge to design pretext tasks. However, the key component,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Weijie Chen , Shiliang Pu , Di Xie , Shicai Yang , Yilu Guo , Luojun Lin

This paper presents SimCLR: a simple framework for contrastive learning of visual representations. We simplify recently proposed contrastive self-supervised learning algorithms without requiring specialized architectures or a memory bank.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Ting Chen , Simon Kornblith , Mohammad Norouzi , Geoffrey Hinton

Weakly supervised whole slide image classification is usually formulated as a multiple instance learning (MIL) problem, where each slide is treated as a bag, and the patches cut out of it are treated as instances. Existing methods either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Linhao Qu , Yingfan Ma , Xiaoyuan Luo , Manning Wang , Zhijian Song

Instance-level contrastive learning techniques, which rely on data augmentation and a contrastive loss function, have found great success in the domain of visual representation learning. They are not suitable for exploiting the rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Martine Toering , Ioannis Gatopoulos , Maarten Stol , Vincent Tao Hu