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Masked Image Modeling (MIM) has recently been established as a potent pre-training paradigm. A pretext task is constructed by masking patches in an input image, and this masked content is then predicted by a neural network using visible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Philippe Weinzaepfel , Vincent Leroy , Thomas Lucas , Romain Brégier , Yohann Cabon , Vaibhav Arora , Leonid Antsfeld , Boris Chidlovskii , Gabriela Csurka , Jérôme Revaud

We propose ViC-MAE, a model that combines both Masked AutoEncoders (MAE) and contrastive learning. ViC-MAE is trained using a global featured obtained by pooling the local representations learned under an MAE reconstruction loss and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Jefferson Hernandez , Ruben Villegas , Vicente Ordonez

Recently, self-supervised Masked Autoencoders (MAE) have attracted unprecedented attention for their impressive representation learning ability. However, the pretext task, Masked Image Modeling (MIM), reconstructs the missing local patches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Feng Liang , Yangguang Li , Diana Marculescu

Understanding whether self-supervised learning methods can scale with unlimited data is crucial for training large-scale models. In this work, we conduct an empirical study on the scaling capability of masked image modeling (MIM) methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Cheng-Ze Lu , Xiaojie Jin , Qibin Hou , Jun Hao Liew , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jiashi Feng

In this work, we survey recent studies on masked image modeling (MIM), an approach that emerged as a powerful self-supervised learning technique in computer vision. The MIM task involves masking some information, e.g. pixels, patches, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Vlad Hondru , Florinel Alin Croitoru , Shervin Minaee , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Nicu Sebe

Masked Autoencoders (MAE) have been prevailing paradigms for large-scale vision representation pre-training. By reconstructing masked image patches from a small portion of visible image regions, MAE forces the model to infer semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Hongwei Xue , Peng Gao , Hongyang Li , Yu Qiao , Hao Sun , Houqiang Li , Jiebo Luo

Self-supervised visual pre-training methods face an inherent tension: contrastive learning (CL) captures global semantics but loses fine-grained detail, while masked image modeling (MIM) preserves local textures but suffers from "attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Wenzhao Xiang , Yue Wu , Hongyang Yu , Feng Gao , Fan Yang , Xilin Chen

Masked Autoencoders (MAE) achieve self-supervised learning of image representations by randomly removing a portion of visual tokens and reconstructing the original image as a pretext task, thereby significantly enhancing pretraining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jiaxuan Li , Qing Xu , Xiangjian He , Ziyu Liu , Chang Xing , Zhen Chen , Daokun Zhang , Rong Qu , Chang Wen Chen

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

This paper presents SimMIM, a simple framework for masked image modeling. We simplify recently proposed related approaches without special designs such as block-wise masking and tokenization via discrete VAE or clustering. To study what let…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Zhenda Xie , Zheng Zhang , Yue Cao , Yutong Lin , Jianmin Bao , Zhuliang Yao , Qi Dai , Han Hu

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) has emerged as a promising method for deriving visual representations from unlabeled image data by predicting missing pixels from masked portions of images. It excels in region-aware learning and provides strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yibing Wei , Abhinav Gupta , Pedro Morgado

Masked image modeling (MIM) has become a prevalent pre-training setup for vision foundation models and attains promising performance. Despite its success, existing MIM methods discard the decoder network during downstream applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Qi Han , Yuxuan Cai , Xiangyu Zhang

Recently, masked image modeling (MIM) has become a promising direction for visual pre-training. In the context of vision transformers, MIM learns effective visual representation by aligning the token-level features with a pre-defined space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Longhui Wei , Lingxi Xie , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li , Qi Tian

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

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) has garnered significant attention in self-supervised learning, thanks to its impressive capacity to learn scalable visual representations tailored for downstream tasks. However, images inherently contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Wenzhao Xiang , Chang Liu , Hongyang Yu , Xilin Chen

Masked Autoencoders (MAE) have been popular paradigms for large-scale vision representation pre-training. However, MAE solely reconstructs the low-level RGB signals after the decoder and lacks supervision upon high-level semantics for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Peng Gao , Renrui Zhang , Rongyao Fang , Ziyi Lin , Hongyang Li , Hongsheng Li , Qiao Yu

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) is a new self-supervised vision pre-training paradigm using a Vision Transformer (ViT). Previous works can be pixel-based or token-based, using original pixels or discrete visual tokens from parametric tokenizer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Xin Yan , Zuchao Li , Lefei Zhang

Masked image modeling (MIM) has become a popular strategy for self-supervised learning~(SSL) of visual representations with Vision Transformers. A representative MIM model, the masked auto-encoder (MAE), randomly masks a subset of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Youngwan Lee , Jeffrey Willette , Jonghee Kim , Juho Lee , Sung Ju Hwang

Masked image modeling (MIM) learns representations with remarkably good fine-tuning performances, overshadowing previous prevalent pre-training approaches such as image classification, instance contrastive learning, and image-text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Yixuan Wei , Han Hu , Zhenda Xie , Zheng Zhang , Yue Cao , Jianmin Bao , Dong Chen , Baining Guo

Masked Autoencoder (MAE) is a notable method for self-supervised pretraining in visual representation learning. It operates by randomly masking image patches and reconstructing these masked patches using the unmasked ones. A key limitation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Han Guo , Ramtin Hosseini , Ruiyi Zhang , Sai Ashish Somayajula , Ranak Roy Chowdhury , Rajesh K. Gupta , Pengtao Xie