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Self-attention based transformer models have been dominating many computer vision tasks in the past few years. Their superb model qualities heavily depend on the excessively large labeled image datasets. In order to reduce the reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Zejiang Hou , Fei Sun , Yen-Kuang Chen , Yuan Xie , Sun-Yuan Kung

Recently, Masked Image Modeling (MIM) achieves great success in self-supervised visual recognition. However, as a reconstruction-based framework, it is still an open question to understand how MIM works, since MIM appears very different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Xiangwen Kong , Xiangyu Zhang

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

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) has emerged as a powerful self-supervised learning paradigm for visual representation learning, enabling models to acquire rich visual representations by predicting masked portions of images from their visible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Jinhong Lin , Cheng-En Wu , Huanran Li , Jifan Zhang , Yu Hen Hu , Pedro Morgado

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

Recently, masked image modeling (MIM) has gained considerable attention due to its capacity to learn from vast amounts of unlabeled data and has been demonstrated to be effective on a wide variety of vision tasks involving natural images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Zekai Chen , Devansh Agarwal , Kshitij Aggarwal , Wiem Safta , Samit Hirawat , Venkat Sethuraman , Mariann Micsinai Balan , Kevin Brown

We introduce Correlational Image Modeling (CIM), a novel and surprisingly effective approach to self-supervised visual pre-training. Our CIM performs a simple pretext task: we randomly crop image regions (exemplars) from an input image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Wei Li , Jiahao Xie , Chen Change Loy

Prompt tuning, which involves training a small set of parameters, effectively enhances the pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to downstream tasks. However, they often come at the cost of flexibility and adaptability when the tuned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Mushui Liu , Bozheng Li , Yunlong Yu

The Vision Transformer (ViT) has demonstrated remarkable performance in Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) for 3D medical image analysis. Masked AutoEncoder (MAE) for feature pre-training can further unleash the potential of ViT on various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Jiaxin Zhuang , Linshan Wu , Qiong Wang , Peng Fei , Varut Vardhanabhuti , Lin Luo , Hao Chen

Masked Autoencoder (MAE) is a self-supervised approach for representation learning, widely applicable to a variety of downstream tasks in computer vision. In spite of its success, it is still not fully uncovered what and how MAE exactly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Jeongwoo Shin , Inseo Lee , Junho Lee , Joonseok Lee

The hematology analytics used for detection and classification of small blood components is a significant challenge. In particular, when objects exists as small pixel-sized entities in a large context of similar objects. Deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 H. Martin Gillis , Ming Hill , Paul Hollensen , Alan Fine , Thomas Trappenberg

Recently, pre-trained vision-language models have been increasingly used to tackle the challenging zero-shot segmentation task. Typical solutions follow the paradigm of first generating mask proposals and then adopting CLIP to classify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Siyu Jiao , Yunchao Wei , Yaowei Wang , Yao Zhao , Humphrey Shi

Masked image modeling (MIM) methods typically operate in either raw pixel space (reconstructing masked patches) or latent feature space (aligning with a pre-trained teacher). We present MEDiC (Multi-objective Exploration of Distillation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Konstantinos Georgiou , Maofeng Tang , Hairong Qi

Growing techniques have been emerging to improve the performance of passage retrieval. As an effective representation bottleneck pretraining technique, the contextual masked auto-encoder utilizes contextual embedding to assist in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Xing Wu , Guangyuan Ma , Peng Wang , Meng Lin , Zijia Lin , Fuzheng Zhang , Songlin Hu

At the most basic level, pixels are the source of the visual information through which we perceive the world. Pixels contain information at all levels, ranging from low-level attributes to high-level concepts. Autoencoders represent a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Lihe Yang , Shang-Wen Li , Yang Li , Xinjie Lei , Dong Wang , Abdelrahman Mohamed , Hengshuang Zhao , Hu Xu

Masked image modeling (MIM) performs strongly in pre-training large vision Transformers (ViTs). However, small models that are critical for real-world applications cannot or only marginally benefit from this pre-training approach. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Sucheng Ren , Fangyun Wei , Zheng Zhang , Han Hu

Masked image modelling (MIM) is a powerful self-supervised representation learning paradigm, whose potential has not been widely demonstrated in medical image analysis. In this work, we show the capacity of MIM to capture rich semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Piotr Wójcik , Hussein Naji , Adrian Simon , Reinhard Büttner , Katarzyna Bożek

The self-supervised Masked Image Modeling (MIM) schema, following "mask-and-reconstruct" pipeline of recovering contents from masked image, has recently captured the increasing interest in the multimedia community, owing to the excellent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Hao Liu , Xinghua Jiang , Xin Li , Antai Guo , Deqiang Jiang , Bo Ren

Recent studies have shown that CLIP has achieved remarkable success in performing zero-shot inference while its fine-tuning performance is not satisfactory. In this paper, we identify that fine-tuning performance is significantly impacted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Xiaoyi Dong , Jianmin Bao , Ting Zhang , Dongdong Chen , Shuyang Gu , Weiming Zhang , Lu Yuan , Dong Chen , Fang Wen , Nenghai Yu

Existing Masked Image Modeling (MIM) depends on a spatial patch-based masking-reconstruction strategy to perceive objects'features from unlabeled images, which may face two limitations when applied to chest CT: 1) inefficient feature…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-15 Jie Zheng , Ru Wen , Haiqin Hu , Lina Wei , Kui Su , Wei Chen , Chen Liu , Jun Wang