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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

"Masked Autoencoders (MAE) Are Scalable Vision Learners" revolutionizes the self-supervised learning method in that it not only achieves the state-of-the-art for image pre-training, but is also a milestone that bridges the gap between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Shuhao Cao , Peng Xu , David A. Clifton

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

Class Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to sequentially learn new classes while avoiding catastrophic forgetting of previous knowledge. We propose to use Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) as efficient learners for CIL. MAEs were originally designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Jiang-Tian Zhai , Xialei Liu , Andrew D. Bagdanov , Ke Li , Ming-Ming Cheng

Masked autoencoders (MAEs) have displayed significant potential in the classification and semantic segmentation of medical images in the last year. Due to the high similarity of human tissues, even slight changes in medical images may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Jiawei Mao , Shujian Guo , Yuanqi Chang , Xuesong Yin , Binling Nie

Masked image modeling (MIM) has become a leading self-supervised learning strategy. MIMs such as Masked Autoencoder (MAE) learn strong representations by randomly masking input tokens for the encoder to process, with the decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Taekyung Kim , Sanghyuk Chun , Byeongho Heo , Dongyoon Han

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 image modeling is a promising self-supervised learning method for visual data. It is typically built upon image patches with random masks, which largely ignores the variation of information density between them. The question is: Is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Haijian Chen , Wendong Zhang , Yunbo Wang , Xiaokang Yang

In the field of medical image segmentation, challenges such as indistinct lesion features, ambiguous boundaries,and multi-scale characteristics have long revailed. This paper proposes an improved method named Intensity-Spatial Dual Masked…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-17 Yuexing Ding , Jun Wang , Hongbing Lyu

Pre-training by numerous image data has become de-facto for robust 2D representations. In contrast, due to the expensive data acquisition and annotation, a paucity of large-scale 3D datasets severely hinders the learning for high-quality 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Renrui Zhang , Liuhui Wang , Yu Qiao , Peng Gao , Hongsheng Li

Masked Autoencoders (MAE) based on a reconstruction task have risen to be a promising paradigm for self-supervised learning (SSL) and achieve state-of-the-art performance across different benchmark datasets. However, despite its impressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Qi Zhang , Yifei Wang , Yisen Wang

Masked image modeling (MIM) has achieved promising results on various vision tasks. However, the limited discriminability of learned representation manifests there is still plenty to go for making a stronger vision learner. Towards this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Zhicheng Huang , Xiaojie Jin , Chengze Lu , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng , Dongmei Fu , Xiaohui Shen , Jiashi Feng

Self-supervised learning has been a powerful training paradigm to facilitate representation learning. In this study, we design a masked autoencoder (MAE) to guide deep learning models to learn electroencephalography (EEG) signal…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yifei Zhou , Sitong Liu

This paper explores improvements to the masked image modeling (MIM) paradigm. The MIM paradigm enables the model to learn the main object features of the image by masking the input image and predicting the masked part by the unmasked part.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Jiawei Mao , Xuesong Yin , Yuanqi Chang , Honggu Zhou

In this work, we introduce long-video masked-embedding autoencoders (LV-MAE), a self-supervised learning framework for long video representation. Our approach treats short- and long-span dependencies as two separate tasks. Such decoupling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Ilan Naiman , Emanuel Ben-Baruch , Oron Anschel , Alon Shoshan , Igor Kviatkovsky , Manoj Aggarwal , Gerard Medioni

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

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

Masked Image Modeling (MIM)-based models, such as SdAE, CAE, GreenMIM, and MixAE, have explored different strategies to enhance the performance of Masked Autoencoders (MAE) by modifying prediction, loss functions, or incorporating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Srinivasa Rao Nandam , Sara Atito , Zhenhua Feng , Josef Kittler , Muhammad Awais

Masked image modeling (MIM) is a highly popular and effective self-supervised learning method for image understanding. Existing MIM-based methods mostly focus on spatial feature modeling, neglecting spectral feature modeling. Meanwhile,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-09 Junyan Lin , Feng Gao , Xiaocheng Shi , Junyu Dong , Qian Du

Mask-based pretraining has become a cornerstone of modern large-scale models across language, vision, and recently biology. Despite its empirical success, its role and limits in learning data representations have been unclear. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Mingze Dong , Leda Wang , Yuval Kluger