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Self-supervised learning methods like masked autoencoders (MAE) have shown significant promise in learning robust feature representations, particularly in image reconstruction-based pretraining task. However, their performance is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Sua Lee , Joonhun Lee , Myungjoo Kang

Recent general-purpose audio representations show state-of-the-art performance on various audio tasks. These representations are pre-trained by self-supervised learning methods that create training signals from the input. For example,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-09 Daisuke Niizumi , Daiki Takeuchi , Yasunori Ohishi , Noboru Harada , Kunio Kashino

Masked image modeling (MIM) has become a popular strategy for self-supervised learning~(SSL) of visual representations with Vision Transformers. A representative MIM model, the masked auto-encoder (MAE), randomly masks a subset of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Youngwan Lee , Jeffrey Willette , Jonghee Kim , Juho Lee , Sung Ju Hwang

Masked autoencoder (MAE) is a promising self-supervised pre-training technique that can improve the representation learning of a neural network without human intervention. However, applying MAE directly to volumetric medical images poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Jia-Xin Zhuang , Luyang Luo , Hao Chen

Masked autoencoders (MAEs) have emerged recently as art self-supervised spatiotemporal representation learners. Inheriting from the image counterparts, however, existing video MAEs still focus largely on static appearance learning whilst…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Haosen Yang , Deng Huang , Bin Wen , Jiannan Wu , Hongxun Yao , Yi Jiang , Xiatian Zhu , Zehuan Yuan

Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) achieve impressive performance in image classification tasks, yet the internal representations they learn remain less understood. This work started as an attempt to understand the strong downstream classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Anika Shrivastava , Renu Rameshan , Samar Agnihotri

Medical image segmentation remains a formidable challenge due to the label scarcity. Pre-training Vision Transformer (ViT) through masked image modeling (MIM) on large-scale unlabeled medical datasets presents a promising solution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Fenghe Tang , Qingsong Yao , Wenxin Ma , Chenxu Wu , Zihang Jiang , S. Kevin Zhou

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

We propose a pre-training strategy called Multi-modal Multi-task Masked Autoencoders (MultiMAE). It differs from standard Masked Autoencoding in two key aspects: I) it can optionally accept additional modalities of information in the input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Roman Bachmann , David Mizrahi , Andrei Atanov , Amir Zamir

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

Masked Autoencoders (MAE) achieve self-supervised learning of image representations by randomly removing a portion of visual tokens and reconstructing the original image as a pretext task, thereby significantly enhancing pretraining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jiaxuan Li , Qing Xu , Xiangjian He , Ziyu Liu , Chang Xing , Zhen Chen , Daokun Zhang , Rong Qu , Chang Wen Chen

Masked AutoEncoder (MAE) has revolutionized the field of self-supervised learning with its simple yet effective masking and reconstruction strategies. However, despite achieving state-of-the-art performance across various downstream vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Xiaoyu Yue , Lei Bai , Meng Wei , Jiangmiao Pang , Xihui Liu , Luping Zhou , Wanli Ouyang

We investigated the adaptation and performance of Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) with Vision Transformer (ViT) architectures for self-supervised representation learning on one-dimensional (1D) ultrasound signals. Although MAEs have demonstrated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Immanuel Roßteutscher , Klaus S. Drese , Thorsten Uphues

Neural fields excel in computer vision and robotics due to their ability to understand the 3D visual world such as inferring semantics, geometry, and dynamics. Given the capabilities of neural fields in densely representing a 3D scene from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Muhammad Zubair Irshad , Sergey Zakharov , Vitor Guizilini , Adrien Gaidon , Zsolt Kira , Rares Ambrus

"Masked Autoencoders (MAE) Are Scalable Vision Learners" revolutionizes the self-supervised learning method in that it not only achieves the state-of-the-art for image pre-training, but is also a milestone that bridges the gap between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Shuhao Cao , Peng Xu , David A. Clifton

Recently, various studies have been directed towards exploring dense passage retrieval techniques employing pre-trained language models, among which the masked auto-encoder (MAE) pre-training architecture has emerged as the most promising.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Zehan Li , Yanzhao Zhang , Dingkun Long , Pengjun Xie

Pre-training by numerous image data has become de-facto for robust 2D representations. In contrast, due to the expensive data acquisition and annotation, a paucity of large-scale 3D datasets severely hinders the learning for high-quality 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Renrui Zhang , Liuhui Wang , Yu Qiao , Peng Gao , Hongsheng Li

Masked auto-encoder pre-training has emerged as a prevalent technique for initializing and enhancing dense retrieval systems. It generally utilizes additional Transformer decoder blocks to provide sustainable supervision signals and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Guangyuan Ma , Xing Wu , Zijia Lin , Songlin Hu

Masked image modeling (MIM) has achieved promising results on various vision tasks. However, the limited discriminability of learned representation manifests there is still plenty to go for making a stronger vision learner. Towards this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Zhicheng Huang , Xiaojie Jin , Chengze Lu , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng , Dongmei Fu , Xiaohui Shen , Jiashi Feng

Transformers have shown significant effectiveness for various vision tasks including both high-level vision and low-level vision. Recently, masked autoencoders (MAE) for feature pre-training have further unleashed the potential of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Huiyu Duan , Wei Shen , Xiongkuo Min , Danyang Tu , Long Teng , Jia Wang , Guangtao Zhai