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Contrastive representation learning has proven to be an effective self-supervised learning method for images and videos. Most successful approaches are based on Noise Contrastive Estimation (NCE) and use different views of an instance as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Julien Denize , Jaonary Rabarisoa , Astrid Orcesi , Romain Hérault

Semi-supervised learning (SSL), which aims at leveraging a few labeled images and a large number of unlabeled images for network training, is beneficial for relieving the burden of data annotation in medical image segmentation. According to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-15 Xinkai Zhao , Chaowei Fang , De-Jun Fan , Xutao Lin , Feng Gao , Guanbin Li

Learning robust representations to discriminate cell phenotypes based on microscopy images is important for drug discovery. Drug development efforts typically analyse thousands of cell images to screen for potential treatments. Early works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Alexis Perakis , Ali Gorji , Samriddhi Jain , Krishna Chaitanya , Simone Rizza , Ender Konukoglu

Contrastive Learning (CL) has recently emerged as a powerful technique in recommendation systems, particularly for its capability to harness self-supervised signals from perturbed views to mitigate the persistent challenge of data sparsity.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Zheyu Chen , Jinfeng Xu , Yutong Wei , Ziyue Peng

Nowadays, deep learning methods, especially the convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have shown impressive performance on extracting abstract and high-level features from the hyperspectral image. However, general training process of CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Zhiqiang Gong , Ping Zhong , Weidong Hu

State-of-the-art image models predominantly follow a two-stage strategy: pre-training on large datasets and fine-tuning with cross-entropy loss. Many studies have shown that using cross-entropy can result in sub-optimal generalisation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Zijun Long , George Killick , Richard McCreadie , Gerardo Aragon Camarasa , Zaiqiao Meng

Detectingandsegmentingobjectswithinwholeslideimagesis essential in computational pathology workflow. Self-supervised learning (SSL) is appealing to such annotation-heavy tasks. Despite the extensive benchmarks in natural images for dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Jiawei Yang , Hanbo Chen , Yuan Liang , Junzhou Huang , Lei He , Jianhua Yao

X-ray computed tomography (CT) is widely used in medical imaging, with sparse-view reconstruction offering an effective way to reduce radiation dose. However, ill-posed conditions often result in severe streak artifacts. Recent advances in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Jiashu Dong , Jiabing Xiang , Lisheng Geng , Suqing Tian , Wei Zhao

Self-supervised contrastive learning is among the recent representation learning methods that have shown performance gains in several downstream tasks including semantic segmentation. This paper evaluates strong data augmentation, one of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Azeez Idris , Abdurahman Ali Mohammed , Samuel Fanijo

Since the meaning representations are detailed and accurate annotations which express fine-grained sequence-level semtantics, it is usually hard to train discriminative semantic parsers via Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) in an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Shan Wu , Chunlei Xin , Bo Chen , Xianpei Han , Le Sun

In contrastive self-supervised learning, the common way to learn discriminative representation is to pull different augmented "views" of the same image closer while pushing all other images further apart, which has been proven to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Kaiyou Song , Shan Zhang , Zihao An , Zimeng Luo , Tong Wang , Jin Xie

Contrastive self-supervised learning (SSL) learns an embedding space that maps similar data pairs closer and dissimilar data pairs farther apart. Despite its success, one issue has been overlooked: the fairness aspect of representations…

Detecting lane markings in road scenes poses a challenge due to their intricate nature, which is susceptible to unfavorable conditions. While lane markings have strong shape priors, their visibility is easily compromised by lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Ali Zoljodi , Sadegh Abadijou , Mina Alibeigi , Masoud Daneshtalab

Most of the existing learning-based deraining methods are supervisedly trained on synthetic rainy-clean pairs. The domain gap between the synthetic and real rain makes them less generalized to complex real rainy scenes. Moreover, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Yi Chang , Yun Guo , Yuntong Ye , Changfeng Yu , Lin Zhu , Xile Zhao , Luxin Yan , Yonghong Tian

Most of previous deepfake detection researches bent their efforts to describe and discriminate artifacts in human perceptible ways, which leave a bias in the learned networks of ignoring some critical invariance features intra-class and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Ruiqi Zha , Zhichao Lian , Qianmu Li , Siqi Gu

State-of-the-art natural language understanding classification models follow two-stages: pre-training a large language model on an auxiliary task, and then fine-tuning the model on a task-specific labeled dataset using cross-entropy loss.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Beliz Gunel , Jingfei Du , Alexis Conneau , Ves Stoyanov

Self-supervised representation learning has made significant leaps fueled by progress in contrastive learning, which seeks to learn transformations that embed positive input pairs nearby, while pushing negative pairs far apart. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Tri Huynh , Simon Kornblith , Matthew R. Walter , Michael Maire , Maryam Khademi

What makes an image appear realistic? In this work, we are answering this question from a data-driven perspective by learning the perception of visual realism directly from large amounts of data. In particular, we train a Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-05 Jun-Yan Zhu , Philipp Krähenbühl , Eli Shechtman , Alexei A. Efros

Training data for class-conditional image synthesis often exhibit a long-tailed distribution with limited images for tail classes. Such an imbalance causes mode collapse and reduces the diversity of synthesized images for tail classes. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Fang Chen , Alex Villa , Gongbo Liang , Xiaoyi Lu , Meng Tang

Unsupervised learning has been a long-standing goal of machine learning and is especially important for medical image analysis, where the learning can compensate for the scarcity of labeled datasets. A promising subclass of unsupervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-09 Ozan Ciga , Tony Xu , Anne L. Martel