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We propose Clustering Mask Transformer (CMT-DeepLab), a transformer-based framework for panoptic segmentation designed around clustering. It rethinks the existing transformer architectures used in segmentation and detection; CMT-DeepLab…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Qihang Yu , Huiyu Wang , Dahun Kim , Siyuan Qiao , Maxwell Collins , Yukun Zhu , Hartwig Adam , Alan Yuille , Liang-Chieh Chen

Image segmentation is about grouping pixels with different semantics, e.g., category or instance membership, where each choice of semantics defines a task. While only the semantics of each task differ, current research focuses on designing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Bowen Cheng , Ishan Misra , Alexander G. Schwing , Alexander Kirillov , Rohit Girdhar

Vision Transformers can achieve high accuracy and strong generalization across various contexts, but their practical applicability on real-world robotic systems is limited due to their quadratic attention complexity. Recent works have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Fabio Montello , Ronja Güldenring , Lazaros Nalpantidis

Learning dense visual representations without labels is an arduous task and more so from scene-centric data. We propose to tackle this challenging problem by proposing a Cross-view consistency objective with an Online Clustering mechanism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Thomas Stegmüller , Tim Lebailly , Behzad Bozorgtabar , Tinne Tuytelaars , Jean-Philippe Thiran

Image clustering is a crucial but challenging task in multimedia machine learning. Recently the combination of clustering with deep learning has achieved promising performance against conventional methods on high-dimensional image data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Ruilin Zhang , Haiyang Zheng , Hongpeng Wang

Transformers have shown great potential in computer vision tasks. A common belief is their attention-based token mixer module contributes most to their competence. However, recent works show the attention-based module in Transformers can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Weihao Yu , Mi Luo , Pan Zhou , Chenyang Si , Yichen Zhou , Xinchao Wang , Jiashi Feng , Shuicheng Yan

The self-attention mechanism has been a key factor in the advancement of vision Transformers. However, its quadratic complexity imposes a heavy computational burden in high-resolution scenarios, restricting the practical application.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Dongchen Han , Tianyu Li , Ziyi Wang , Gao Huang

Incomplete multi-view clustering is a hot and emerging topic. It is well known that unavoidable data incompleteness greatly weakens the effective information of multi-view data. To date, existing incomplete multi-view clustering methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Chengliang Liu , Jie Wen , Zhihao Wu , Xiaoling Luo , Chao Huang , Yong Xu

Dynamic attention mechanism and global modeling ability make Transformer show strong feature learning ability. In recent years, Transformer has become comparable to CNNs methods in computer vision. This review mainly investigates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Yuting Yang , Licheng Jiao , Xu Liu , Fang Liu , Shuyuan Yang , Zhixi Feng , Xu Tang

Working with annotated data is the cornerstone of supervised learning. Nevertheless, providing labels to instances is a task that requires significant human effort. Several critical real-world applications make things more complicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Erencem Ozbey , Dimitrios I. Diochnos

Traditional image clustering methods take a two-step approach, feature learning and clustering, sequentially. However, recent research results demonstrated that combining the separated phases in a unified framework and training them jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Fengfu Li , Hong Qiao , Bo Zhang , Xuanyang Xi

We investigate a fundamental aspect of machine vision: the measurement of features, by revisiting clustering, one of the most classic approaches in machine learning and data analysis. Existing visual feature extractors, including ConvNets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Guikun Chen , Xia Li , Yi Yang , Wenguan Wang

Clustering is one of the most fundamental tasks in machine learning. Recently, deep clustering has become a major trend in clustering techniques. Representation learning often plays an important role in the effectiveness of deep clustering,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Yaling Tao , Kentaro Takagi , Kouta Nakata

In this work, we introduce the Prototypical Transformer (ProtoFormer), a general and unified framework that approaches various motion tasks from a prototype perspective. ProtoFormer seamlessly integrates prototype learning with Transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Cheng Han , Yawen Lu , Guohao Sun , James C. Liang , Zhiwen Cao , Qifan Wang , Qiang Guan , Sohail A. Dianat , Raghuveer M. Rao , Tong Geng , Zhiqiang Tao , Dongfang Liu

Since Transformer has found widespread use in NLP, the potential of Transformer in CV has been realized and has inspired many new approaches. However, the computation required for replacing word tokens with image patches for Transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Hezheng Lin , Xing Cheng , Xiangyu Wu , Fan Yang , Dong Shen , Zhongyuan Wang , Qing Song , Wei Yuan

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is crucial for robust mobile robot localization, yet it faces significant challenges in maintaining reliable performance under varying environmental conditions and viewpoints. To address this, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Haiyang Jiang , Songhao Piao , Chao Gao , Lei Yu , Liguo Chen

Transformers have made great progress in dealing with computer vision tasks. However, existing vision transformers do not yet possess the ability of building the interactions among features of different scales, which is perceptually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Wenxiao Wang , Lu Yao , Long Chen , Binbin Lin , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He , Wei Liu

Pre-training convolutional neural networks with weakly-supervised and self-supervised strategies is becoming increasingly popular for several computer vision tasks. However, due to the lack of strong discriminative signals, these learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Xueting Yan , Ishan Misra , Abhinav Gupta , Deepti Ghadiyaram , Dhruv Mahajan

Classification and clustering have been studied separately in machine learning and computer vision. Inspired by the recent success of deep learning models in solving various vision problems (e.g., object recognition, semantic segmentation)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Ali Borji , Aysegul Dundar

Recent advances in vision transformers (ViTs) have achieved great performance in visual recognition tasks. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) exploit spatial inductive bias to learn visual representations, but these networks are spatially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Youpeng Zhao , Huadong Tang , Yingying Jiang , Yong A , Qiang Wu