English
Related papers

Related papers: SimCon Loss with Multiple Views for Text Supervise…

200 papers

In order to push the performance on realistic computer vision tasks, the number of classes in modern benchmark datasets has significantly increased in recent years. This increase in the number of classes comes along with increased ambiguity…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-14 Maksim Lapin , Matthias Hein , Bernt Schiele

Existing semantic segmentation approaches either aim to improve the object's inner consistency by modeling the global context, or refine objects detail along their boundaries by multi-scale feature fusion. In this paper, a new paradigm for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Xiangtai Li , Xia Li , Li Zhang , Guangliang Cheng , Jianping Shi , Zhouchen Lin , Shaohua Tan , Yunhai Tong

Recent state-of-the-art image segmentation algorithms are mostly based on deep neural networks, thanks to their high performance and fast computation time. However, these methods are usually trained in a supervised manner, which requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Boah Kim , Jong Chul Ye

Jointing visual-semantic embeddings (VSE) have become a research hotpot for the task of image annotation, which suffers from the issue of semantic gap, i.e., the gap between images' visual features (low-level) and labels' semantic features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Guibing Guo , Songlin Zhai , Fajie Yuan , Yuan Liu , Xingwei Wang

Image-based single-modality compression learning approaches have demonstrated exceptionally powerful encoding and decoding capabilities in the past few years , but suffer from blur and severe semantics loss at extremely low bitrates. To…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-27 Xuhao Jiang , Weimin Tan , Tian Tan , Bo Yan , Liquan Shen

Despite recent progress in video and language representation learning, the weak or sparse correspondence between the two modalities remains a bottleneck in the area. Most video-language models are trained via pair-level loss to predict…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Zixu Wang , Yujie Zhong , Yishu Miao , Lin Ma , Lucia Specia

We investigate a strategy for improving the efficiency of contrastive learning of visual representations by leveraging a small amount of supervised information during pre-training. We propose a semi-supervised loss, SuNCEt, based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Mahmoud Assran , Nicolas Ballas , Lluis Castrejon , Michael Rabbat

Camouflaged object segmentation presents unique challenges compared to traditional segmentation tasks, primarily due to the high similarity in patterns and colors between camouflaged objects and their backgrounds. Effective solutions to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Wenqi Guo , Mohamed Shehata , Shan Du

This work addresses the task of completely weakly supervised class-incremental learning for semantic segmentation to learn segmentation for both base and additional novel classes using only image-level labels. While class-incremental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 David Minkwan Kim , Soeun Lee , Byeongkeun Kang

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) often omit or misrepresent critical visual content in generated image captions. Minimizing such information loss will force LVLMs to focus on image details to generate precise descriptions. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Haonan Jia , Shichao Dong , Xin Dong , Zenghui Sun , Jin Wang , Jinsong Lan , Xiaoyong Zhu , Bo Zheng , Kaifu Zhang

Visual bird's eye view (BEV) semantic segmentation helps autonomous vehicles understand the surrounding environment only from images, including static elements (e.g., roads) and dynamic elements (e.g., vehicles, pedestrians). However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Junyu Zhu , Lina Liu , Yu Tang , Feng Wen , Wanlong Li , Yong Liu

Self-training methods have proven to be effective in exploiting abundant unlabeled data in semi-supervised learning, particularly when labeled data is scarce. While many of these approaches rely on a cross-entropy loss function (CE), recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Aurelien Gauffre , Julien Horvat , Massih-Reza Amini

Semantic noise in image classification datasets, where visually similar categories are frequently mislabeled, poses a significant challenge to conventional supervised learning approaches. In this paper, we explore the potential of using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yingxuan Li , Jiafeng Mao , Yusuke Matsui

Loss functions are error metrics that quantify the difference between a prediction and its corresponding ground truth. Fundamentally, they define a functional landscape for traversal by gradient descent. Although numerous loss functions…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-09 Chaitanya Kaul , Nick Pears , Hang Dai , Roderick Murray-Smith , Suresh Manandhar

In most image retrieval systems, images include various high-level semantics, called tags or annotations. Virtually all the state-of-the-art image annotation methods that handle imbalanced labeling are search-based techniques which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Seyed Mahdi Roostaiyan , Mohammad Mehdi Hosseini , Mahya Mohammadi Kashani , S. Hamid Amiri

Single-image super-resolution refers to the reconstruction of a high-resolution image from a single low-resolution observation. Although recent deep learning-based methods have demonstrated notable success on simulated datasets -- with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Maciej Zyrek , Tomasz Tarasiewicz , Jakub Sadel , Aleksandra Krzywon , Michal Kawulok

Unsupervised monocular depth learning generally relies on the photometric relation among temporally adjacent images. Most of previous works use both mean absolute error (MAE) and structure similarity index measure (SSIM) with conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Yijun Cao , Fuya Luo , Yongjie Li

One of the major challenges in training deep neural networks for text-to-image generation is the significant linguistic discrepancy between ground-truth captions of each image in most popular datasets. The large difference in the choice of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Mahmoud Ahmed , Omer Moussa , Ismail Shaheen , Mohamed Abdelfattah , Amr Abdalla , Marwan Eid , Hesham Eraqi , Mohamed Moustafa

In text recognition, self-supervised pre-training emerges as a good solution to reduce dependence on expansive annotated real data. Previous studies primarily focus on local visual representation by leveraging mask image modeling or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Zuan Gao , Yuxin Wang , Yadong Qu , Boqiang Zhang , Zixiao Wang , Jianjun Xu , Hongtao Xie

Given a similarity metric, contrastive methods learn a representation in which examples that are similar are pushed together and examples that are dissimilar are pulled apart. Contrastive learning techniques have been utilized extensively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Emily Mu , John Guttag , Maggie Makar