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We present an approach for unsupervised training of CNNs in order to learn discriminative face representations. We mine supervised training data by noting that multiple faces in the same video frame must belong to different persons and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Samyak Datta , Gaurav Sharma , C. V. Jawahar

Deep learning models have achieved great success in automating skin lesion diagnosis. However, the ethnic disparity in these models' predictions, where lesions on darker skin types are usually underrepresented and have lower diagnosis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Siyi Du , Ben Hers , Nourhan Bayasi , Ghassan Hamarneh , Rafeef Garbi

Recent self-supervised representation learning techniques have largely closed the gap between supervised and unsupervised learning on ImageNet classification. While the particulars of pretraining on ImageNet are now relatively well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Elijah Cole , Xuan Yang , Kimberly Wilber , Oisin Mac Aodha , Serge Belongie

Contrastive learning predicts whether two images belong to the same category by training a model to make their feature representations as close or as far away as possible. In this paper, we rethink how to mine samples in contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Hengkui Dong , Xianzhong Long , Yun Li

Traditional supervised learning methods are hitting a bottleneck because of their dependency on expensive manually labeled data and their weaknesses such as limited generalization ability and vulnerability to adversarial attacks. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Ran Liu

In neutrino physics, analyses often depend on large simulated datasets, making it essential for models to generalise effectively to real-world detector data. Contrastive learning, a well-established technique in deep learning, offers a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-23 Alex Wilkinson , Radi Radev , Saul Alonso-Monsalve

In this paper, we present a deep learning based image feature extraction method designed specifically for face images. To train the feature extraction model, we construct a large scale photo-realistic face image dataset with ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Boyi Jiang , Juyong Zhang , Bailin Deng , Yudong Guo , Ligang Liu

Contrastive learning is a recent promising approach in unsupervised representation learning where a feature representation of data is learned by solving a pseudo classification problem from unlabelled data. However, it is not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Hiroaki Sasaki , Takashi Takenouchi

We reveal critical insights into problems of bias in state-of-the-art facial recognition (FR) systems using a novel Balanced Faces In the Wild (BFW) dataset: data balanced for gender and ethnic groups. We show variations in the optimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Joseph P Robinson , Gennady Livitz , Yann Henon , Can Qin , Yun Fu , Samson Timoner

Radio Frequency (RF) device fingerprinting has been recognized as a potential technology for enabling automated wireless device identification and classification. However, it faces a key challenge due to the domain shift that could arise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Jun Chen , Weng-Keen Wong , Bechir Hamdaoui

In contrast to comparing faces via single exemplars, matching sets of face images increases robustness and discrimination performance. Recent image set matching approaches typically measure similarities between subspaces or manifolds, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-03-13 Conrad Sanderson , Mehrtash T. Harandi , Yongkang Wong , Brian C. Lovell

We introduce Cluster Contrast (CueCo), a novel approach to unsupervised visual representation learning that effectively combines the strengths of contrastive learning and clustering methods. Inspired by recent advancements, CueCo is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Nikolaos Giakoumoglou , Tania Stathaki

Deep learning has enabled realistic face manipulation (i.e., deepfake), which poses significant concerns over the integrity of the media in circulation. Most existing deep learning techniques for deepfake detection can achieve promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Bosheng Yan , Chang-Tsun Li , Xuequan Lu

Dense correspondence across semantically related images has been extensively studied, but still faces two challenges: 1) large variations in appearance, scale and pose exist even for objects from the same category, and 2) labeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Taihong Xiao , Sifei Liu , Shalini De Mello , Zhiding Yu , Jan Kautz , Ming-Hsuan Yang

With the rapid development of facial manipulation techniques, face forgery detection has received considerable attention in digital media forensics due to security concerns. Most existing methods formulate face forgery detection as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Shen Chen , Taiping Yao , Yang Chen , Shouhong Ding , Jilin Li , Rongrong Ji

Self-supervised learning is a machine learning approach that generates implicit labels by learning underlined patterns and extracting discriminative features from unlabeled data without manual labelling. Contrastive learning introduces the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Asifullah Khan , Laiba Asmatullah , Anza Malik , Shahzaib Khan , Hamna Asif

Asymmetric appearance between positive pair effectively reduces the risk of representation degradation in contrastive learning. However, there are still a mass of appearance similarities between positive pair constructed by the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Chengchao Shen , Jianzhong Chen , Shu Wang , Hulin Kuang , Jin Liu , Jianxin Wang

Convolutional networks have marked their place over the last few years as the best performing model for various visual tasks. They are, however, most suited for supervised learning from large amounts of labeled data. Previous attempts have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Elad Hoffer , Itay Hubara , Nir Ailon

Self-supervised learning has gained popularity because of its ability to avoid the cost of annotating large-scale datasets. It is capable of adopting self-defined pseudo labels as supervision and use the learned representations for several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Ashish Jaiswal , Ashwin Ramesh Babu , Mohammad Zaki Zadeh , Debapriya Banerjee , Fillia Makedon

Face verification is a problem approached in the literature mainly using nonlinear class-specific subspace learning techniques. While it has been shown that kernel-based Class-Specific Discriminant Analysis is able to provide excellent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Guanqun Cao , Alexandros Iosifidis , Moncef Gabbouj