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Masked Image Modeling (MIM) has become an essential method for building foundational visual models in remote sensing (RS). However, the limitations in size and diversity of existing RS datasets restrict the ability of MIM methods to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Fengxiang Wang , Hongzhen Wang , Di Wang , Zonghao Guo , Zhenyu Zhong , Long Lan , Wenjing Yang , Jing Zhang

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

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

Recently, masked image modeling (MIM) has offered a new methodology of self-supervised pre-training of vision transformers. A key idea of efficient implementation is to discard the masked image patches (or tokens) throughout the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Xiaosong Zhang , Yunjie Tian , Wei Huang , Qixiang Ye , Qi Dai , Lingxi Xie , Qi Tian

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) achieves outstanding success in self-supervised representation learning. Unfortunately, MIM models typically have huge computational burden and slow learning process, which is an inevitable obstacle for their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Haoqing Wang , Yehui Tang , Yunhe Wang , Jianyuan Guo , Zhi-Hong Deng , Kai Han

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

Self-supervised pre-training vision transformer (ViT) via masked image modeling (MIM) has been proven very effective. However, customized algorithms should be carefully designed for the hierarchical ViTs, e.g., GreenMIM, instead of using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Yufei Xu , Jing Zhang , Qiming Zhang , Dacheng Tao

SimMIM is a widely used method for pretraining vision transformers using masked image modeling. However, despite its success in fine-tuning performance, it has been shown to perform sub-optimally when used for linear probing. We propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Madhava Krishna , A V Subramanyam

Masked Image Generation Models (MIGMs) have achieved great success, yet their efficiency is hampered by the multiple steps of bi-directional attention. In fact, there exists notable redundancy in their computation: when sampling discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Kaiwen Zhu , Quansheng Zeng , Yuandong Pu , Shuo Cao , Xiaohui Li , Yi Xin , Qi Qin , Jiayang Li , Yu Qiao , Jinjin Gu , Yihao Liu

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

Since the development of self-supervised visual representation learning from contrastive learning to masked image modeling (MIM), there is no significant difference in essence, that is, how to design proper pretext tasks for vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Kun Yi , Yixiao Ge , Xiaotong Li , Shusheng Yang , Dian Li , Jianping Wu , Ying Shan , Xiaohu Qie

We propose integrally pre-trained transformer pyramid network (iTPN), towards jointly optimizing the network backbone and the neck, so that transfer gap between representation models and downstream tasks is minimal. iTPN is born with two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Yunjie Tian , Lingxi Xie , Jihao Qiu , Jianbin Jiao , Yaowei Wang , Qi Tian , Qixiang Ye

Deeper Vision Transformers (ViTs) are more challenging to train. We expose a degradation problem in deeper layers of ViT when using masked image modeling (MIM) for pre-training. To ease the training of deeper ViTs, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Guoxi Huang , Hongtao Fu , Adrian G. Bors

Vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP excel in zero-shot learning but often require resource-intensive training to adapt to new tasks. Prompt learning techniques, such as CoOp and CoCoOp, offer efficient adaptation but tend to overfit to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Phuoc-Nguyen Bui , Khanh-Binh Nguyen , Hyunseung Choo

The use of self-supervised pre-training has emerged as a promising approach to enhance the performance of many different visual tasks. In this context, recent approaches have employed the Masked Image Modeling paradigm, which pre-trains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Lorenzo Baraldi , Roberto Amoroso , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Andrea Pilzer , Rita Cucchiara

Medical image segmentation remains a formidable challenge due to the label scarcity. Pre-training Vision Transformer (ViT) through masked image modeling (MIM) on large-scale unlabeled medical datasets presents a promising solution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Fenghe Tang , Qingsong Yao , Wenxin Ma , Chenxu Wu , Zihang Jiang , S. Kevin Zhou

The superior performance of modern deep networks usually comes with a costly training procedure. This paper presents a new curriculum learning approach for the efficient training of visual backbones (e.g., vision Transformers). Our work is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Yulin Wang , Yang Yue , Rui Lu , Tianjiao Liu , Zhao Zhong , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

We present a new pre-training strategy called M$^{3}$3D ($\underline{M}$ulti-$\underline{M}$odal $\underline{M}$asked $\underline{3D}$) built based on Multi-modal masked autoencoders that can leverage 3D priors and learned cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Muhammad Abdullah Jamal , Omid Mohareri

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) has attracted much research attention due to its promising potential for learning scalable visual representations. In typical approaches, models usually focus on predicting specific contents of masked patches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Haochen Wang , Kaiyou Song , Junsong Fan , Yuxi Wang , Jin Xie , Zhaoxiang Zhang