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Self supervision and natural language supervision have emerged as two exciting ways to train general purpose image encoders which excel at a variety of downstream tasks. Recent works such as M3AE and SLIP have suggested that these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Floris Weers , Vaishaal Shankar , Angelos Katharopoulos , Yinfei Yang , Tom Gunter

To make sense of their surroundings, intelligent systems must transform complex sensory inputs to structured codes that are reduced to task-relevant information such as object category. Biological agents achieve this in a largely autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Robin Weiler , Matthias Brucklacher , Cyriel M. A. Pennartz , Sander M. Bohté

Existing Masked Image Modeling methods apply fixed mask patterns to guide the self-supervised training. As those mask patterns resort to different criteria to depict image contents, sticking to a fixed pattern leads to a limited vision cues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Zhanzhou Feng , Shiliang Zhang

Self-supervised learning guided by masked image modelling, such as Masked AutoEncoder (MAE), has attracted wide attention for pretraining vision transformers in remote sensing. However, MAE tends to excessively focus on pixel details,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yi Wang , Hugo Hernández Hernández , Conrad M Albrecht , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Multimodal representation learning has shown promising improvements on various vision-language tasks. Most existing methods excel at building global-level alignment between vision and language while lacking effective fine-grained image-text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Zijia Zhao , Longteng Guo , Xingjian He , Shuai Shao , Zehuan Yuan , Jing Liu

There has been a lot of recent interest in designing neural network models to estimate a distribution from a set of examples. We introduce a simple modification for autoencoder neural networks that yields powerful generative models. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-08 Mathieu Germain , Karol Gregor , Iain Murray , Hugo Larochelle

This work contributes to breast cancer sub-type classification using histopathological images. We utilize masked autoencoders (MAEs) to learn a self-supervised embedding tailored for computer vision tasks in this domain. This embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Annalisa Chiocchetti , Marco Dossena , Christopher Irwin , Luigi Portinale

Generating semantic segmentation datasets has consistently been laborious and time-consuming, particularly in the context of large models or specialized domains(i.e. Medical Imaging or Remote Sensing). Specifically, large models necessitate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jiaru Jia , Mingzhe Liu , Jiake Xie , Xin Chen , Hong Zhang , Feixiang Zhao , Aiqing Yang

We address the challenge of training Vision Transformers (ViTs) when labeled data is scarce but unlabeled data is abundant. We propose Semi-Supervised Masked Autoencoder (SSMAE), a framework that jointly optimizes masked image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Atik Faysal , Mohammad Rostami , Reihaneh Gh. Roshan , Nikhil Muralidhar , Huaxia Wang

Latest federated learning (FL) methods started to focus on how to use unlabeled data in clients for training due to users' privacy concerns, high labeling costs, or lack of expertise. However, current Federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Nan Yang , Xuanyu Chen , Charles Z. Liu , Dong Yuan , Wei Bao , Lizhen Cui

Self-supervised models allow (pre-)training on unlabeled data and therefore have the potential to overcome the need for large annotated cohorts. One leading self-supervised model is the masked autoencoder (MAE) which was developed on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-13 Daniel M. Lang , Eli Schwartz , Cosmin I. Bercea , Raja Giryes , Julia A. Schnabel

Masked Graph Auto-Encoder, a powerful graph self-supervised training paradigm, has recently shown superior performance in graph representation learning. Existing works typically rely on node contextual information to recover the masked…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Ziyu Zheng , Yaming Yang , Ziyu Guan , Wei Zhao , Weigang Lu

Automated analysis of surgical videos is crucial for improving surgical training, workflow optimization, and postoperative assessment. We introduce a CSMAE, Masked Autoencoder (MAE)-based pretraining approach, specifically developed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Nisarg A. Shah , Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara , Shameema Skider , S. Swaroop Vedula , Vishal M. Patel

In this paper, we propose Mixed and Masked AutoEncoder (MixMAE), a simple but efficient pretraining method that is applicable to various hierarchical Vision Transformers. Existing masked image modeling (MIM) methods for hierarchical Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Jihao Liu , Xin Huang , Jinliang Zheng , Yu Liu , Hongsheng Li

Masked Image Modeling (MIM)-based models, such as SdAE, CAE, GreenMIM, and MixAE, have explored different strategies to enhance the performance of Masked Autoencoders (MAE) by modifying prediction, loss functions, or incorporating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Srinivasa Rao Nandam , Sara Atito , Zhenhua Feng , Josef Kittler , Muhammad Awais

We address personalized image enhancement in this study, where we enhance input images for each user based on the user's preferred images. Previous methods apply the same preferred style to all input images (i.e., only one style for each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Satoshi Kosugi , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Unsupervised multivariate time series (MTS) representation learning aims to extract compact and informative representations from raw sequences without relying on labels, enabling efficient transfer to diverse downstream tasks. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Yi Xu , Yitian Zhang , Yun Fu

Deep neural networks are powerful tools for biomedical image segmentation. These models are often trained with heavy supervision, relying on pairs of images and corresponding voxel-level labels. However, obtaining segmentations of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-30 Evan M. Yu , Juan Eugenio Iglesias , Adrian V. Dalca , Mert R. Sabuncu

Can we leverage the audiovisual information already present in video to improve self-supervised representation learning? To answer this question, we study various pretraining architectures and objectives within the masked autoencoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Mariana-Iuliana Georgescu , Eduardo Fonseca , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Mario Lucic , Cordelia Schmid , Anurag Arnab

The dominant probing approaches rely on the zero-shot performance of image-text matching tasks to gain a finer-grained understanding of the representations learned by recent multimodal image-language transformer models. The evaluation is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Ivana Beňová , Jana Košecká , Michal Gregor , Martin Tamajka , Marcel Veselý , Marián Šimko