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3D object detection is essential for autonomous driving and robotic perception, yet its reliance on large-scale manually annotated data limits scalability and adaptability. To reduce annotation dependency, unsupervised and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yushen He , Lei Zhao , Weidong Chen

Despite their irresistible success, deep learning algorithms still heavily rely on annotated data. On the other hand, unsupervised settings pose many challenges, especially about determining the right inductive bias in diverse scenarios.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Beril Besbinar , Pascal Frossard

A central goal of unsupervised learning is to acquire representations from unlabeled data or experience that can be used for more effective learning of downstream tasks from modest amounts of labeled data. Many prior unsupervised learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Kyle Hsu , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

We study adapting trained object detectors to unseen domains manifesting significant variations of object appearance, viewpoints and backgrounds. Most current methods align domains by either using image or instance-level feature alignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Muhammad Akhtar Munir , Muhammad Haris Khan , M. Saquib Sarfraz , Mohsen Ali

Both indoor and outdoor scene perceptions are essential for embodied intelligence. However, current sparse supervised 3D object detection methods focus solely on outdoor scenes without considering indoor settings. To this end, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Yun Zhu , Le Hui , Hang Yang , Jianjun Qian , Jin Xie , Jian Yang

Reducing the quantity of annotations required for supervised training is vital when labels are scarce and costly. This reduction is particularly important for semantic segmentation tasks involving 3D datasets, which are often significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Andrej Janda , Brandon Wagstaff , Edwin G. Ng , Jonathan Kelly

This work tackles the unsupervised cross-domain object detection problem which aims to generalize a pre-trained object detector to a new target domain without labels. We propose an uncertainty-aware model adaptation method, which is based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Minjie Cai , Minyi Luo , Xionghu Zhong , Hao Chen

Supervised object detection and semantic segmentation require object or even pixel level annotations. When there exist image level labels only, it is challenging for weakly supervised algorithms to achieve accurate predictions. The accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Weifeng Ge , Sibei Yang , Yizhou Yu

Pre-training is a dominant paradigm in computer vision. For example, supervised ImageNet pre-training is commonly used to initialize the backbones of object detection and segmentation models. He et al., however, show a surprising result…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Barret Zoph , Golnaz Ghiasi , Tsung-Yi Lin , Yin Cui , Hanxiao Liu , Ekin D. Cubuk , Quoc V. Le

In defense-related remote sensing applications, such as vehicle detection on satellite imagery, supervised learning requires a huge number of labeled examples to reach operational performances. Such data are challenging to obtain as it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Jules BOURCIER , Thomas Floquet , Gohar Dashyan , Tugdual Ceillier , Karteek Alahari , Jocelyn Chanussot

Deep learning based object detectors struggle generalizing to a new target domain bearing significant variations in object and background. Most current methods align domains by using image or instance-level adversarial feature alignment.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Muhammad Akhtar Munir , Muhammad Haris Khan , M. Saquib Sarfraz , Mohsen Ali

Pixel-level labels are particularly expensive to acquire. Hence, pretraining is a critical step to improve models on a task like semantic segmentation. However, prominent algorithms for pretraining neural networks use image-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Mathilde Caron , Neil Houlsby , Cordelia Schmid

Unsupervised pretraining, which learns a useful representation using a large amount of unlabeled data to facilitate the learning of downstream tasks, is a critical component of modern large-scale machine learning systems. Despite its…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-06 Jiawei Ge , Shange Tang , Jianqing Fan , Chi Jin

We propose a hybrid framework for consistently producing high-quality object tracks by combining an automated object tracker with little human input. The key idea is to tailor a module for each dataset to intelligently decide when an object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Samreen Anjum , Suyog Jain , Danna Gurari

This paper proposes a novel paradigm for the unsupervised learning of object landmark detectors. Contrary to existing methods that build on auxiliary tasks such as image generation or equivariance, we propose a self-training approach where,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Dimitrios Mallis , Enrique Sanchez , Matt Bell , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Language model pre-training has proven to be useful in many language understanding tasks. In this paper, we investigate whether it is still helpful to add the self-training method in the pre-training step and the fine-tuning step. Towards…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Tong Guo

Contrastive self-supervised learning has largely narrowed the gap to supervised pre-training on ImageNet. However, its success highly relies on the object-centric priors of ImageNet, i.e., different augmented views of the same image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Jiahao Xie , Xiaohang Zhan , Ziwei Liu , Yew Soon Ong , Chen Change Loy

Self-supervised pretraining has been observed to be effective at improving feature representations for transfer learning, leveraging large amounts of unlabelled data. This review summarizes recent research into its usage in X-ray, computed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Blake VanBerlo , Jesse Hoey , Alexander Wong

Unsupervised object discovery aims to localize objects in images, while removing the dependence on annotations required by most deep learning-based methods. To address this problem, we propose a fully unsupervised, bottom-up approach, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Sandra Kara , Hejer Ammar , Florian Chabot , Quoc-Cuong Pham

Semi-supervised object detection has recently achieved substantial progress. As a mainstream solution, the self-labeling-based methods train the detector on both labeled data and unlabeled data with pseudo labels predicted by the detector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Chengcheng Ma , Xingjia Pan , Qixiang Ye , Fan Tang , Weiming Dong , Changsheng Xu