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This paper introduces a novel self-supervised method that leverages incoherence detection for video representation learning. It roots from the observation that visual systems of human beings can easily identify video incoherence based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Haozhi Cao , Yuecong Xu , Jianfei Yang , Kezhi Mao , Lihua Xie , Jianxiong Yin , Simon See

Recently, contrastive learning has achieved great results in self-supervised learning, where the main idea is to push two augmentations of an image (positive pairs) closer compared to other random images (negative pairs). We argue that not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Ajinkya Tejankar , Soroush Abbasi Koohpayegani , Vipin Pillai , Paolo Favaro , Hamed Pirsiavash

We propose a novel end-to-end curriculum learning approach for sparsely labelled animal datasets leveraging large volumes of unlabelled data to improve supervised species detectors. We exemplify the method in detail on the task of finding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Xinyu Yang , Tilo Burghardt , Majid Mirmehdi

The learning objective of vision-language approach of CLIP does not effectively account for the noisy many-to-many correspondences found in web-harvested image captioning datasets, which contributes to its compute and data inefficiency. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Alex Andonian , Shixing Chen , Raffay Hamid

In animal facilities, continuous surveillance of penguins is essential yet technically challenging due to their homogeneous visual characteristics, rapid and frequent posture changes, and substantial environmental noise such as water…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Kasumi Seko , Hiroki Kinoshita , Raj Rajeshwar Malinda , Hiroaki Kawashima

Contrastive learning has been utilized as a promising self-supervised learning approach to extract meaningful representations from unlabeled data. The majority of these methods take advantage of data-augmentation techniques to create…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Han Yu , Huiyuan Yang , Akane Sano

Contrastive learning has recently demonstrated superior performance to supervised learning, despite requiring no training labels. We explore how contrastive learning can be applied to hundreds of thousands of unlabeled Mars terrain images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Isaac Ronald Ward , Charles Moore , Kai Pak , Jingdao Chen , Edwin Goh

A two-stage training paradigm consisting of sequential pre-training and meta-training stages has been widely used in current few-shot learning (FSL) research. Many of these methods use self-supervised learning and contrastive learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Zhanyuan Yang , Jinghua Wang , Yingying Zhu

Understanding how biological communities respond to environmental changes is a key challenge in ecology and ecosystem management. The apparent decline of insect populations necessitates more biomonitoring but the time-consuming sorting and…

Meta-learning enables learning systems to adapt quickly to new tasks, similar to humans. Different meta-learning approaches all work under/with the mini-batch episodic training framework. Such framework naturally gives the information about…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Shiguang Wu , Yaqing Wang , Yatao Bian , Quanming Yao

Camera traps are revolutionising wildlife monitoring by capturing vast amounts of visual data; however, the manual identification of individual animals remains a significant bottleneck. This study introduces a fully self-supervised approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Vladimir Iashin , Horace Lee , Dan Schofield , Andrew Zisserman

The pursuit of learning robust representations without human supervision is a longstanding challenge. The recent advancements in self-supervised contrastive learning approaches have demonstrated high performance across various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Ozgu Goksu , Nicolas Pugeault

Evolving networks are complex data structures that emerge in a wide range of systems in science and engineering. Learning expressive representations for such networks that encode their structural connectivity and temporal evolution is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Amirhossein Nouranizadeh , Fatemeh Tabatabaei Far , Mohammad Rahmati

Purpose: Intraoperative ultrasound (US) can enhance real-time visualization in transoral robotic surgery. The surgeon creates a mental map with a pre-operative scan. Then, a surgical assistant performs freehand US scanning during the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Wanwen Chen , Adam Schmidt , Eitan Prisman , Septimiu E. Salcudean

Unsupervised visual representation learning has gained much attention from the computer vision community because of the recent achievement of contrastive learning. Most of the existing contrastive learning frameworks adopt the instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Mingkai Zheng , Fei Wang , Shan You , Chen Qian , Changshui Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Chang Xu

Along with the exponential growth of online platforms and services, recommendation systems have become essential for identifying relevant items based on user preferences. The domain of sequential recommendation aims to capture evolving user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Jung Hyun Ryu , Jaeheyoung Jeon , Jewoong Cho , Myungjoo Kang 1

Single image dehazing is a challenging ill-posed problem due to the severe information degeneration. However, existing deep learning based dehazing methods only adopt clear images as positive samples to guide the training of dehazing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Haiyan Wu , Yanyun Qu , Shaohui Lin , Jian Zhou , Ruizhi Qiao , Zhizhong Zhang , Yuan Xie , Lizhuang Ma

Children learn to build a visual representation of the world from unsupervised exploration and we hypothesize that a key part of this learning ability is the use of self-generated navigational information as a similarity label to drive a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Lizhen Zhu , Brad Wyble , James Z. Wang

Person re-identification is a problem of identifying individuals across non-overlapping cameras. Although remarkable progress has been made in the re-identification problem, it is still a challenging problem due to appearance variations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Seongyeop Yang , Byeongkeun Kang , Yeejin Lee

Lifelong person re-identification (LReID) assumes a practical scenario where the model is sequentially trained on continuously incoming datasets while alleviating the catastrophic forgetting in the old datasets. However, not only the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Minyoung Oh , Jae-Young Sim