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Contrastive learning is commonly used as a method of self-supervised learning with the "anchor" and "positive" being two random augmentations of a given input image, and the "negative" is the set of all other images. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Rishab Balasubramanian , Kunal Rathore

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

Weakly supervised monocular 3D detection, while less annotation-intensive, often struggles to capture the global context required for reliable 3D reasoning. Conventional label-efficient methods focus on object-centric features, neglecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Chupeng Liu , Runkai Zhao , Weidong Cai

Weakly supervised learning of object detection is an important problem in image understanding that still does not have a satisfactory solution. In this paper, we address this problem by exploiting the power of deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Hakan Bilen , Andrea Vedaldi

Current supervised cross-domain image retrieval methods can achieve excellent performance. However, the cost of data collection and labeling imposes an intractable barrier to practical deployment in real applications. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Conghui Hu , Gim Hee Lee

Transformers trained with self-supervised learning using self-distillation loss (DINO) have been shown to produce attention maps that highlight salient foreground objects. In this paper, we demonstrate a graph-based approach that uses the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Yangtao Wang , Xi Shen , Shell Hu , Yuan Yuan , James Crowley , Dominique Vaufreydaz

Image-level contrastive representation learning has proven to be highly effective as a generic model for transfer learning. Such generality for transfer learning, however, sacrifices specificity if we are interested in a certain downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Fangyun Wei , Yue Gao , Zhirong Wu , Han Hu , Stephen Lin

A crucial task in scene understanding is 3D object detection, which aims to detect and localize the 3D bounding boxes of objects belonging to specific classes. Existing 3D object detectors heavily rely on annotated 3D bounding boxes during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Zengyi Qin , Jinglu Wang , Yan Lu

Weakly-supervised object detection (WOD) is a challenging problems in computer vision. The key problem is to simultaneously infer the exact object locations in the training images and train the object detectors, given only the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Dingwen Zhang , Deyu Meng , Long Zhao , Junwei Han

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) has been extensively studied under the settings of One-Class Classification (OCC) and Weakly-Supervised learning (WS), which however both require laborious human-annotated normal/abnormal labels. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Yongwei Nie , Hao Huang , Chengjiang Long , Qing Zhang , Pradipta Maji , Hongmin Cai

Self-supervised instance discrimination is an effective contrastive pretext task to learn feature representations and address limited medical image annotations. The idea is to make features of transformed versions of the same images similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Yejia Zhang , Xinrong Hu , Nishchal Sapkota , Yiyu Shi , Danny Z. Chen

Unsupervised object detection using deep neural networks is typically a difficult problem with few to no guarantees about the learned representation. In this work we present the first unsupervised object detection method that is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Marian Longa , João F. Henriques

For decades, Computer Vision has aimed at enabling machines to perceive the external world. Initial limitations led to the development of highly specialized niches. As success in each task accrued and research progressed, increasingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Andrei-Stefan Bulzan , Cosmin Cernazanu-Glavan

Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) is a challenging task when provided with image category supervision but required to simultaneously learn object locations and object detectors. Many WSOD approaches adopt multiple instance learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Fang Wan , Chang Liu , Wei Ke , Xiangyang Ji , Jianbin Jiao , Qixiang Ye

Visual Language Navigation (VLN) is a fundamental task within the field of Embodied AI, focusing on the ability of agents to navigate complex environments based on natural language instructions. Despite the progress made by existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Ruoyu Wang , Tong Yu , Junda Wu , Yao Liu , Julian McAuley , Lina Yao

We propose a self-supervised approach for learning representations of objects from monocular videos and demonstrate it is particularly useful in situated settings such as robotics. The main contributions of this paper are: 1) a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Sören Pirk , Mohi Khansari , Yunfei Bai , Corey Lynch , Pierre Sermanet

Contrastive learning is a promising approach to unsupervised learning, as it inherits the advantages of well-studied deep models without a dedicated and complex model design. In this paper, based on bidirectional encoder representations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Haoxiang Shi , Cen Wang

Fully supervised object detection has achieved great success in recent years. However, abundant bounding boxes annotations are needed for training a detector for novel classes. To reduce the human labeling effort, we propose a novel webly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Zhonghua Wu , Qingyi Tao , Guosheng Lin , Jianfei Cai

The performance of object detection, to a great extent, depends on the availability of large annotated datasets. To alleviate the annotation cost, the research community has explored a number of ways to exploit unlabeled or weakly labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Shijie Fang , Yuhang Cao , Xinjiang Wang , Kai Chen , Dahua Lin , Wayne Zhang

Few-shot object detection (FSOD) aims to detect objects with limited samples for novel classes, while relying on abundant data for base classes. Existing FSOD approaches, predominantly built on the Faster R-CNN detector, entangle objectness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Taijin Zhao , Heqian Qiu , Yu Dai , Lanxiao Wang , Fanman Meng , Qingbo Wu , Hongliang Li