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Videos captured from multiple viewpoints can help in perceiving the 3D structure of the world and benefit computer vision tasks such as action recognition, tracking, etc. In this paper, we present a method for self-supervised learning from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Ketul Shah , Robert Crandall , Jie Xu , Peng Zhou , Marian George , Mayank Bansal , Rama Chellappa

Finding an interpretable non-redundant representation of real-world data is one of the key problems in Machine Learning. Biological neural networks are known to solve this problem quite well in unsupervised manner, yet unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Denis Kuzminykh , Laida Kushnareva , Timofey Grigoryev , Alexander Zatolokin

We propose an approach to self-supervised representation learning based on maximizing mutual information between features extracted from multiple views of a shared context. For example, one could produce multiple views of a local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Philip Bachman , R Devon Hjelm , William Buchwalter

Masked autoencoder (MAE) has attracted unprecedented attention and achieves remarkable performance in many vision tasks. It reconstructs random masked image patches (known as proxy task) during pretraining and learns meaningful semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Qingbo Kang , Jun Gao , Kang Li , Qicheng Lao

Unsupervised representation learning holds the promise of exploiting large amounts of unlabeled data to learn general representations. A promising technique for unsupervised learning is the framework of Variational Auto-encoders (VAEs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Kamal Gupta , Saurabh Singh , Abhinav Shrivastava

We introduce the concept of a Modular Autoencoder (MAE), capable of learning a set of diverse but complementary representations from unlabelled data, that can later be used for supervised tasks. The learning of the representations is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Henry W J Reeve , Gavin Brown

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

We develop an approach to learning visual representations that embraces multimodal data, driven by a combination of intra- and inter-modal similarity preservation objectives. Unlike existing visual pre-training methods, which solve a proxy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Xin Yuan , Zhe Lin , Jason Kuen , Jianming Zhang , Yilin Wang , Michael Maire , Ajinkya Kale , Baldo Faieta

Contrastive Masked Autoencoder (CMAE), as a new self-supervised framework, has shown its potential of learning expressive feature representations in visual image recognition. This work shows that CMAE also trivially generalizes well on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Cheng-Ze Lu , Xiaojie Jin , Zhicheng Huang , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jiashi Feng

We present a novel masked image modeling (MIM) approach, context autoencoder (CAE), for self-supervised representation pretraining. We pretrain an encoder by making predictions in the encoded representation space. The pretraining tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Xiaokang Chen , Mingyu Ding , Xiaodi Wang , Ying Xin , Shentong Mo , Yunhao Wang , Shumin Han , Ping Luo , Gang Zeng , Jingdong Wang

Learning representations from videos requires understanding continuous motion and visual correspondences between frames. In this paper, we introduce the Concatenated Masked Autoencoders (CatMAE) as a spatial-temporal learner for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Zhouqiang Jiang , Bowen Wang , Tong Xiang , Zhaofeng Niu , Hong Tang , Guangshun Li , Liangzhi Li

Self-supervised pre-training of image encoders is omnipresent in the literature, particularly following the introduction of Masked autoencoders (MAE). Current efforts attempt to learn object-centric representations from motion in videos. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Alexandre Eymaël , Renaud Vandeghen , Anthony Cioppa , Silvio Giancola , Bernard Ghanem , Marc Van Droogenbroeck

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) methods, like Masked Autoencoders (MAE), efficiently learn a rich representation of the input. However, for adapting to downstream tasks, they require a sufficient amount of labeled data since their rich features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Johannes Lehner , Benedikt Alkin , Andreas Fürst , Elisabeth Rumetshofer , Lukas Miklautz , Sepp Hochreiter

With the exponential growth of multimedia data, leveraging multimodal sensors presents a promising approach for improving accuracy in human activity recognition. Nevertheless, accurately identifying these activities using both video data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Rex Liu , Xin Liu

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

Latent variable models like the Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) are commonly used to learn representations of images. However, for downstream tasks like semantic classification, the representations learned by VAE are less competitive than…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-31 Mingtian Zhang , Tim Z. Xiao , Brooks Paige , David Barber

Masked Autoencoder (MAE) has recently been shown to be effective in pre-training Vision Transformers (ViT) for natural image analysis. By reconstructing full images from partially masked inputs, a ViT encoder aggregates contextual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-24 Lei Zhou , Huidong Liu , Joseph Bae , Junjun He , Dimitris Samaras , Prateek Prasanna

Recently, self-supervised pre-training has advanced Vision Transformers on various tasks w.r.t. different data modalities, e.g., image and 3D point cloud data. In this paper, we explore this learning paradigm for 3D mesh data analysis based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Yaqian Liang , Shanshan Zhao , Baosheng Yu , Jing Zhang , Fazhi He

This paper studies masked autoencoder (MAE) video pre-training for various temporal matching-based downstream tasks, i.e., object-level tracking tasks including video object tracking (VOT) and video object segmentation (VOS),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Qiangqiang Wu , Tianyu Yang , Ziquan Liu , Wei Lin , Baoyuan Wu , Antoni B. Chan

This paper explores Masked Autoencoders (MAE) with Gaussian Splatting. While reconstructive self-supervised learning frameworks such as MAE learns good semantic abstractions, it is not trained for explicit spatial awareness. Our approach,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Jathushan Rajasegaran , Xinlei Chen , Rulilong Li , Christoph Feichtenhofer , Jitendra Malik , Shiry Ginosar