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Existing vision-text contrastive learning like CLIP aims to match the paired image and caption embeddings while pushing others apart, which improves representation transferability and supports zero-shot prediction. However, medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Zifeng Wang , Zhenbang Wu , Dinesh Agarwal , Jimeng Sun

Tremendous breakthroughs have been developed in Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (S4) through contrastive learning. However, due to limited annotations, the guidance on unlabeled images is generated by the model itself, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Haoyu Xie , Changqi Wang , Jian Zhao , Yang Liu , Jun Dan , Chong Fu , Baigui Sun

Despite the remarkable performance of supervised medical image segmentation models, relying on a large amount of labeled data is impractical in real-world situations. Semi-supervised learning approaches aim to alleviate this challenge using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Yunyao Lu , Yihang Wu , Ahmad Chaddad , Tareef Daqqaq , Reem Kateb

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has attracted a surge of attention due to its superior performance for learning node/graph representations without labels. However, in practice, the underlying class distribution of unlabeled nodes for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Liang Zeng , Lanqing Li , Ziqi Gao , Peilin Zhao , Jian Li

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

Medical image segmentation is a relevant task as it serves as the first step for several diagnosis processes, thus it is indispensable in clinical usage. Whilst major success has been reported using supervised techniques, they assume a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Lihao Liu , Angelica I Aviles-Rivero , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Contrastive learning, which aims to capture general representation from unlabeled images to initialize the medical analysis models, has been proven effective in alleviating the high demand for expensive annotations. Current methods mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Huai Chen , Renzhen Wang , Xiuying Wang , Jieyu Li , Qu Fang , Hui Li , Jianhao Bai , Qing Peng , Deyu Meng , Lisheng Wang

Medical image segmentation remains challenging due to limited annotations for training, ambiguous anatomical features, and domain shifts. While vision-language models such as CLIP offer strong cross-modal representations, their potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Taha Koleilat , Hojat Asgariandehkordi , Omid Nejati Manzari , Berardino Barile , Yiming Xiao , Hassan Rivaz

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) aims to self-supervised learn low-dimensional graph representations, primarily through instance discrimination, which involves manually mining positive and negative pairs from graphs, increasing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Yongqi Huang , Jitao Zhao , Dongxiao He , Di Jin , Yuxiao Huang , Zhen Wang

Text-guided medical segmentation enhances segmentation accuracy by utilizing clinical reports as auxiliary information. However, existing methods typically rely on unaligned image and text encoders, which necessitate complex interaction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Gaoren Lin , Huangxuan Zhao , Yuan Xiong , Lefei Zhang , Bo Du , Wentao Zhu

Weak supervision learning on classification labels has demonstrated high performance in various tasks, while a few pixel-level fine annotations are also affordable. Naturally a question comes to us that whether the combination of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Jiahui Li , Wen Chen , Xiaodi Huang , Zhiqiang Hu , Qi Duan , Hongsheng Li , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Shaoting Zhang

Medical image segmentation methods are generally designed as fully-supervised to guarantee model performance, which require a significant amount of expert annotated samples that are high-cost and laborious. Semi-supervised image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Xiangyu Zhao , Zengxin Qi , Sheng Wang , Qian Wang , Xuehai Wu , Ying Mao , Lichi Zhang

A large labeled dataset is a key to the success of supervised deep learning, but for medical image segmentation, it is highly challenging to obtain sufficient annotated images for model training. In many scenarios, unannotated images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Hao Zheng , Jun Han , Hongxiao Wang , Lin Yang , Zhuo Zhao , Chaoli Wang , Danny Z. Chen

In medical vision, different imaging modalities provide complementary information. However, in practice, not all modalities may be available during inference or even training. Previous approaches, e.g., knowledge distillation or image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Aishik Konwer , Xiaoling Hu , Joseph Bae , Xuan Xu , Chao Chen , Prateek Prasanna

Multi-label image classification aims to predict all possible labels in an image. It is usually formulated as a partial-label learning problem, given the fact that it could be expensive in practice to annotate all labels in every training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Rabab Abdelfattah , Xin Zhang , Zhenyao Wu , Xinyi Wu , Xiaofeng Wang , Song Wang

Vehicle re-identification (Vehicle ReID) aims at retrieving vehicle images across disjoint surveillance camera views. The majority of vehicle ReID research is heavily reliant upon supervisory labels from specific human-collected datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Zhigang Chang , Shibao Zheng

Recently, both Contrastive Learning (CL) and Mask Image Modeling (MIM) demonstrate that self-supervision is powerful to learn good representations. However, naively combining them is far from success. In this paper, we start by making the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Ziyu Jiang , Yinpeng Chen , Mengchen Liu , Dongdong Chen , Xiyang Dai , Lu Yuan , Zicheng Liu , Zhangyang Wang

Whilst contrastive learning has recently brought notable benefits to deep clustering of unlabelled images by learning sample-specific discriminative visual features, its potential for explicitly inferring class decision boundaries is less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jiabo Huang , Shaogang Gong

We propose a novel ECGAN for the challenging semantic image synthesis task. Although considerable improvements have been achieved by the community in the recent period, the quality of synthesized images is far from satisfactory due to three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Hao Tang , Guolei Sun , Nicu Sebe , Luc Van Gool

In this work, we propose CLUDA, a simple, yet novel method for performing unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) for semantic segmentation by incorporating contrastive losses into a student-teacher learning paradigm, that makes use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Midhun Vayyat , Jaswin Kasi , Anuraag Bhattacharya , Shuaib Ahmed , Rahul Tallamraju