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Masked Image Modeling (MIM) is a powerful self-supervised strategy for visual pre-training without the use of labels. MIM applies random crops to input images, processes them with an encoder, and then recovers the masked inputs with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Maryam Haghighat , Peyman Moghadam , Shaheer Mohamed , Piotr Koniusz

The extent to which text-only language models (LMs) learn to represent features of the non-linguistic world is an open question. Prior work has shown that pretrained LMs can be taught to caption images when a vision model's parameters are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Jack Merullo , Louis Castricato , Carsten Eickhoff , Ellie Pavlick

Masked image modeling (MIM) has emerged as a promising approach for pre-training Vision Transformers (ViTs). MIMs predict masked tokens token-wise to recover target signals that are tokenized from images or generated by pre-trained models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Taekyung Kim , Byeongho Heo , Dongyoon Han

The main challenge in learning image-conditioned robotic policies is acquiring a visual representation conducive to low-level control. Due to the high dimensionality of the image space, learning a good visual representation requires a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Albert Yu , Adeline Foote , Raymond Mooney , Roberto Martín-Martín

Like masked language modeling (MLM) in natural language processing, masked image modeling (MIM) aims to extract valuable insights from image patches to enhance the feature extraction capabilities of the underlying deep neural network (DNN).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Yixuan Luo , Mengye Ren , Sai Qian Zhang

Vision Language Models (VLMs) encode multimodal inputs over large, complex, and difficult-to-interpret architectures, which limit transparency and trust. We propose a Multimodal Inversion for Model Interpretation and Conceptualization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Animesh Jain , Alexandros Stergiou

In Masked Image Modeling (MIM), two primary methods exist: Pixel MIM and Latent MIM, each utilizing different reconstruction targets, raw pixels and latent representations, respectively. Pixel MIM tends to capture low-level visual details…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Junmyeong Lee , Eui Jun Hwang , Sukmin Cho , Jong C. Park

Text images contain both visual and linguistic information. However, existing pre-training techniques for text recognition mainly focus on either visual representation learning or linguistic knowledge learning. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Pengyuan Lyu , Chengquan Zhang , Shanshan Liu , Meina Qiao , Yangliu Xu , Liang Wu , Kun Yao , Junyu Han , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang

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

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) is an advanced vision-language task that involves identifying and segmenting objects within an image as described by free-form text descriptions. While previous studies focused on aligning visual and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Minhyun Lee , Seungho Lee , Song Park , Dongyoon Han , Byeongho Heo , Hyunjung Shim

This paper represents a neat yet effective framework, named SemanticMIM, to integrate the advantages of masked image modeling (MIM) and contrastive learning (CL) for general visual representation. We conduct a thorough comparative analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yike Yuan , Huanzhang Dou , Fengjun Guo , Xi Li

We present SWIM (See What I Mean), a novel training strategy that aligns vision and language representations to enable fine-grained object understanding solely from textual prompts. Unlike existing approaches that require explicit visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Boyuan Sun , Bowen Yin , Yuanming Li , Xihan Wei , Qibin Hou

Recent masked image modeling (MIM) has received much attention in self-supervised learning (SSL), which requires the target model to recover the masked part of the input image. Although MIM-based pre-training methods achieve new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Qiang Zhou , Chaohui Yu , Hao Luo , Zhibin Wang , Hao Li

Understanding how the brain encodes visual information is a central challenge in neuroscience and machine learning. A promising approach is to reconstruct visual stimuli, essentially images, from functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Zheng Huang , Enpei Zhang , Weikang Qiu , Yinghao Cai , Carl Yang , Elynn Chen , Xiang Zhang , Rex Ying , Dawei Zhou , Yujun Yan

Existing contrastive language-image pre-training aims to learn a joint representation by matching abundant image-text pairs. However, the number of image-text pairs in medical datasets is usually orders of magnitude smaller than that in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Jiarun Liu , Hong-Yu Zhou , Cheng Li , Weijian Huang , Hao Yang , Yong Liang , Shanshan Wang

Vision-language pre-training like CLIP has shown promising performance on various downstream tasks such as zero-shot image classification and image-text retrieval. Most of the existing CLIP-alike works usually adopt relatively large image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Ying Nie , Wei He , Kai Han , Yehui Tang , Tianyu Guo , Fanyi Du , Yunhe Wang

In this paper, we present \textbf{Gen}erative \textbf{L}anguage-\textbf{I}mage \textbf{P}re-training (GenLIP), a minimalist generative pretraining framework for Vision Transformers (ViTs) designed for multimodal large language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Yan Fang , Mengcheng Lan , Zilong Huang , Weixian Lei , Yunqing Zhao , Yujie Zhong , Yingchen Yu , Qi She , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei

In this work, we survey recent studies on masked image modeling (MIM), an approach that emerged as a powerful self-supervised learning technique in computer vision. The MIM task involves masking some information, e.g. pixels, patches, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Vlad Hondru , Florinel Alin Croitoru , Shervin Minaee , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Nicu Sebe

We propose unsupervised multi-scenario (UMS) person re-identification (ReID) as a new task that expands ReID across diverse scenarios (cross-resolution, clothing change, etc.) within a single coherent framework. To tackle UMS-ReID, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Zhiqi Pang , Lingling Zhao , Yang Liu , Chunyu Wang , Gaurav Sharma

Recent work has shown that self-supervised pre-training leads to improvements over supervised learning on challenging visual recognition tasks. CLIP, an exciting new approach to learning with language supervision, demonstrates promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Norman Mu , Alexander Kirillov , David Wagner , Saining Xie