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Generalizing learned representations across significantly different visual domains is a fundamental yet crucial ability of the human visual system. While recent self-supervised learning methods have achieved good performances with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Haiyang Yang , Meilin Chen , Yizhou Wang , Shixiang Tang , Feng Zhu , Lei Bai , Rui Zhao , Wanli Ouyang

LiDAR is used in autonomous driving to provide 3D spatial information and enable accurate perception in off-road environments, aiding in obstacle detection, mapping, and path planning. Learning-based LiDAR semantic segmentation utilizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Kasi Viswanath , Peng Jiang , Sujit PB , Srikanth Saripalli

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

Part-level features are crucial for image understanding, but few studies focus on them because of the lack of fine-grained labels. Although unsupervised part discovery can eliminate the reliance on labels, most of them cannot maintain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Jiahao Xia , Yike Wu , Wenjian Huang , Jianguo Zhang , Jian Zhang

This work proposed a 3D autoencoder architecture, named LiLa-Net, which encodes efficient features from real traffic environments, employing only the LiDAR's point clouds. For this purpose, we have real semi-autonomous vehicle, equipped…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Mario Resino , Borja Pérez , Jaime Godoy , Abdulla Al-Kaff , Fernando García

Masked auto-encoder pre-training has emerged as a prevalent technique for initializing and enhancing dense retrieval systems. It generally utilizes additional Transformer decoder blocks to provide sustainable supervision signals and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Guangyuan Ma , Xing Wu , Zijia Lin , Songlin Hu

The manual annotation for large-scale point clouds costs a lot of time and is usually unavailable in harsh real-world scenarios. Inspired by the great success of the pre-training and fine-tuning paradigm in both vision and language tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Chao Sun , Zhedong Zheng , Xiaohan Wang , Mingliang Xu , Yi Yang

Most algorithms that rely on deep learning-based approaches to generate 3D point sets can only produce clouds containing fixed number of points. Furthermore, they typically require large networks parameterized by many weights, which makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Edoardo Remelli , Pierre Baque , Pascal Fua

Point cloud streaming is increasingly getting popular, evolving into the norm for interactive service delivery and the future Metaverse. However, the substantial volume of data associated with point clouds presents numerous challenges,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Yanlong Li , Chamara Madarasingha , Kanchana Thilakarathna

Current methods for LIDAR semantic segmentation are not robust enough for real-world applications, e.g., autonomous driving, since it is closed-set and static. The closed-set assumption makes the network only able to output labels of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Jun Cen , Peng Yun , Shiwei Zhang , Junhao Cai , Di Luan , Michael Yu Wang , Ming Liu , Mingqian Tang

Whole-slide images are central to digital pathology, yet their extreme size and scarce annotations make self-supervised learning essential. Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) with Vision Transformer backbones have recently shown strong potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Raneen Younis , Louay Hamdi , Lukas Chavez , Zahra Ahmadi

Point clouds provide a flexible and natural representation usable in countless applications such as robotics or self-driving cars. Recently, deep neural networks operating on raw point cloud data have shown promising results on supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Jonathan Sauder , Bjarne Sievers

Masked autoencoders are scalable vision learners, as the title of MAE \cite{he2022masked}, which suggests that self-supervised learning (SSL) in vision might undertake a similar trajectory as in NLP. Specifically, generative pretext tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Chaoning Zhang , Chenshuang Zhang , Junha Song , John Seon Keun Yi , Kang Zhang , In So Kweon

Vision Transformer (ViT) suffers from data scarcity in semi-supervised learning (SSL). To alleviate this issue, inspired by masked autoencoder (MAE), which is a data-efficient self-supervised learner, we propose Semi-MAE, a pure ViT-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Haojie Yu , Kang Zhao , Xiaoming Xu

Image instance segmentation is a fundamental research topic in autonomous driving, which is crucial for scene understanding and road safety. Advanced learning-based approaches often rely on the costly 2D mask annotations for training. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Xiang Li , Junbo Yin , Botian Shi , Yikang Li , Ruigang Yang , Jianbing Shen

A 3D point cloud is an unstructured, sparse, and irregular dataset, typically collected by airborne LiDAR systems over a geological region. Laser pulses emitted from these systems reflect off objects both on and above the ground, resulting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Hong Zhao , Huyunting Huang , Tonglin Zhang , Baijian Yang , Jin Wei-Kocsis , Songlin Fei

Semantic segmentation of satellite imagery is crucial for Earth observation applications, but remains constrained by limited labelled training data. While self-supervised pretraining methods like Masked Autoencoders (MAE) have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 John Waithaka , Moise Busogi

Within the past decade, the rise of applications based on artificial intelligence (AI) in general and machine learning (ML) in specific has led to many significant contributions within different domains. The applications range from robotics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Christoph Sager , Patrick Zschech , Niklas Kühl

Masked auto-encoding is a popular and effective self-supervised learning approach to point cloud learning. However, most of the existing methods reconstruct only the masked points and overlook the local geometry information, which is also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Yabin Zhang , Jiehong Lin , Chenhang He , Yongwei Chen , Kui Jia , Lei Zhang

Low-dimensional embeddings are widely used as visual summaries of high-dimensional data and to enable downstream scientific discoveries. Yet, popular nonlinear dimension reduction methods, such as t-SNE and UMAP, are often selected based on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-29 Irene Chang , Tarek M. Zikry , Genevera I. Allen