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Recently, hashing methods have been widely used in large-scale image retrieval. However, most existing hashing methods did not consider the hierarchical relation of labels, which means that they ignored the rich information stored in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Dan Wang , Heyan Huang , Chi Lu , Bo-Si Feng , Liqiang Nie , Guihua Wen , Xian-Ling Mao

Unsupervised feature learning has shown impressive results for a wide range of input modalities, in particular for object classification tasks in computer vision. Using a large amount of unlabeled data, unsupervised feature learning methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-26 Christian Osendorfer , Justin Bayer , Sebastian Urban , Patrick van der Smagt

Vision-language pre-training (VLP) on large-scale image-text pairs has recently witnessed rapid progress for learning cross-modal representations. Existing pre-training methods either directly concatenate image representation and text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Chenliang Li , Ming Yan , Haiyang Xu , Fuli Luo , Wei Wang , Bin Bi , Songfang Huang

State-of-the-art approaches for image captioning require supervised training data consisting of captions with paired image data. These methods are typically unable to use unsupervised data such as textual data with no corresponding images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Wenhu Chen , Aurelien Lucchi , Thomas Hofmann

Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have significantly advanced zero-shot image recognition. However, their performance remains limited by suboptimal prompt engineering and poor adaptability to target classes. While recent methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Hui Liu , Kecheng Chen , Jialiang Wang , Xianming Liu , Wenya Wang , Haoliang Li

Similarity-preserving hashing is a widely-used method for nearest neighbour search in large-scale image retrieval tasks. For most existing hashing methods, an image is first encoded as a vector of hand-engineering visual features, followed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-17 Hanjiang Lai , Yan Pan , Ye Liu , Shuicheng Yan

Hashing-based methods seek compact and efficient binary codes that preserve the neighborhood structure in the original data space. For most existing hashing methods, an image is first encoded as a vector of hand-crafted visual feature,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-17 Guoqiang Zhong , Pan Yang , Sijiang Wang , Junyu Dong

This paper introduces Hierarchical Self-Supervised LVLM (Hi-SSLVLM), a novel generative model designed to significantly advance text-to-image synthesis, particularly for complex and compositionally challenging prompts. Traditional methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Fernando Gabriela Garcia , Spencer Burns , Ryan Shaw , Hunter Young

Weakly-supervised vision-language (V-L) pre-training (W-VLP) aims at learning cross-modal alignment with little or no paired data, such as aligned images and captions. Recent W-VLP methods, which pair visual features with object tags, help…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Tzu-Jui Julius Wang , Jorma Laaksonen , Tomas Langer , Heikki Arponen , Tom E. Bishop

With the rapid growth of web images, hashing has received increasing interests in large scale image retrieval. Research efforts have been devoted to learning compact binary codes that preserve semantic similarity based on labels. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Fang Zhao , Yongzhen Huang , Liang Wang , Tieniu Tan

Embedding image features into a binary Hamming space can improve both the speed and accuracy of large-scale query-by-example image retrieval systems. Supervised hashing aims to map the original features to compact binary codes in a manner…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Guosheng Lin , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

We present ElasticHash, a novel approach for high-quality, efficient, and large-scale semantic image similarity search. It is based on a deep hashing model to learn hash codes for fine-grained image similarity search in natural images and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Nikolaus Korfhage , Markus Mühling , Bernd Freisleben

Deep supervised hashing has emerged as an influential solution to large-scale semantic image retrieval problems in computer vision. In the light of recent progress, convolutional neural network based hashing methods typically seek pair-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Xuefei Zhe , Shifeng Chen , Hong Yan

Unsupervised image segmentation aims at assigning the pixels with similar feature into a same cluster without annotation, which is an important task in computer vision. Due to lack of prior knowledge, most of existing model usually need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Zhichao Wu , Lei Guo , Hao Zhang , Dan Xu

Representing images by compact hash codes is an attractive approach for large-scale content-based image retrieval. In most state-of-the-art hashing-based image retrieval systems, for each image, local descriptors are first aggregated as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Thanh-Toan Do , Khoa Le , Tuan Hoang , Huu Le , Tam V. Nguyen , Ngai-Man Cheung

The simple approach of retrieving a closest match of a query image from one in the gallery, compares an image pair using sum of absolute difference in pixel or feature space. The process is computationally expensive, ill-posed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Saket Singh , Debdoot Sheet , Mithun Dasgupta

In vision-language pre-training (VLP), masked image modeling (MIM) has recently been introduced for fine-grained cross-modal alignment. However, in most existing methods, the reconstruction targets for MIM lack high-level semantics, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Haowei Liu , Yaya Shi , Haiyang Xu , Chunfeng Yuan , Qinghao Ye , Chenliang Li , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Fei Huang , Bing Li , Weiming Hu

Image clustering, which involves grouping images into different clusters without labels, is a key task in unsupervised learning. Although previous deep clustering methods have achieved remarkable results, they only explore the intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Haixin Zhang , Yongjun Li , Dong Huang

Many approaches to semantic image hashing have been formulated as supervised learning problems that utilize images and label information to learn the binary hash codes. However, large-scale labeled image data is expensive to obtain, thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Vijetha Gattupalli , Yaoxin Zhuo , Baoxin Li

To increase the trustworthiness of deep neural networks, it is critical to improve the understanding of how they make decisions. This paper introduces a novel unsupervised concept-based model for image classification, named Learnable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Francesco De Santis , Philippe Bich , Gabriele Ciravegna , Pietro Barbiero , Danilo Giordano , Tania Cerquitelli