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Videos captured from multiple viewpoints can help in perceiving the 3D structure of the world and benefit computer vision tasks such as action recognition, tracking, etc. In this paper, we present a method for self-supervised learning from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Ketul Shah , Robert Crandall , Jie Xu , Peng Zhou , Marian George , Mayank Bansal , Rama Chellappa

Recently, various studies have been directed towards exploring dense passage retrieval techniques employing pre-trained language models, among which the masked auto-encoder (MAE) pre-training architecture has emerged as the most promising.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Zehan Li , Yanzhao Zhang , Dingkun Long , Pengjun Xie

Masked Autoencoders (MAE) have demonstrated promising performance in self-supervised learning for both 2D and 3D computer vision. Nevertheless, existing MAE-based methods still have certain drawbacks. Firstly, the functional decoupling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Yang Liu , Chen Chen , Can Wang , Xulin King , Mengyuan Liu

Masked autoencoder (MAE) has attracted unprecedented attention and achieves remarkable performance in many vision tasks. It reconstructs random masked image patches (known as proxy task) during pretraining and learns meaningful semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Qingbo Kang , Jun Gao , Kang Li , Qicheng Lao

Strong gravitational lensing can reveal the influence of dark-matter substructure in galaxies, but analyzing these effects from noisy, low-resolution images poses a significant challenge. In this work, we propose a masked autoencoder (MAE)…

We present an extension to masked autoencoders (MAE) which improves on the representations learnt by the model by explicitly encouraging the learning of higher scene-level features. We do this by: (i) the introduction of a perceptual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Samyakh Tukra , Frederick Hoffman , Ken Chatfield

Masked autoencoders (MAE) have recently succeeded in self-supervised vision representation learning. Previous work mainly applied custom-designed (e.g., random, block-wise) masking or teacher (e.g., CLIP)-guided masking and targets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Shentong Mo

We introduce the concept of a Modular Autoencoder (MAE), capable of learning a set of diverse but complementary representations from unlabelled data, that can later be used for supervised tasks. The learning of the representations is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Henry W J Reeve , Gavin Brown

Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) have emerged as a dominant strategy for self-supervised representation learning in natural images, where models are pre-trained to reconstruct masked patches with a pixel-wise mean squared error (MSE) between…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-16 Chetan Madan , Aarjav Satia , Soumen Basu , Pankaj Gupta , Usha Dutta , Chetan Arora

The Masked autoencoder (MAE) has drawn attention as a representative self-supervised approach for masked image modeling with vision transformers. However, even though MAE shows better generalization capability than fully supervised training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Youngwan Lee , Jeffrey Ryan Willette , Jonghee Kim , Sung Ju Hwang

In the field of medical image segmentation, challenges such as indistinct lesion features, ambiguous boundaries,and multi-scale characteristics have long revailed. This paper proposes an improved method named Intensity-Spatial Dual Masked…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-17 Yuexing Ding , Jun Wang , Hongbing Lyu

Masked Autoencoders (MAE) achieve self-supervised learning of image representations by randomly removing a portion of visual tokens and reconstructing the original image as a pretext task, thereby significantly enhancing pretraining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jiaxuan Li , Qing Xu , Xiangjian He , Ziyu Liu , Chang Xing , Zhen Chen , Daokun Zhang , Rong Qu , Chang Wen Chen

Part-level features are crucial for image understanding, but few studies focus on them because of the lack of fine-grained labels. Although unsupervised part discovery can eliminate the reliance on labels, most of them cannot maintain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Jiahao Xia , Yike Wu , Wenjian Huang , Jianguo Zhang , Jian Zhang

Generalizing learned representations across significantly different visual domains is a fundamental yet crucial ability of the human visual system. While recent self-supervised learning methods have achieved good performances with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Haiyang Yang , Meilin Chen , Yizhou Wang , Shixiang Tang , Feng Zhu , Lei Bai , Rui Zhao , Wanli Ouyang

Masked Autoencoder (MAE) has recently been shown to be effective in pre-training Vision Transformers (ViT) for natural image analysis. By reconstructing full images from partially masked inputs, a ViT encoder aggregates contextual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-24 Lei Zhou , Huidong Liu , Joseph Bae , Junjun He , Dimitris Samaras , Prateek Prasanna

Wasserstein autoencoder (WAE) shows that matching two distributions is equivalent to minimizing a simple autoencoder (AE) loss under the constraint that the latent space of this AE matches a pre-specified prior distribution. This latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Devansh Arpit , Aadyot Bhatnagar , Huan Wang , Caiming Xiong

Mask-based pretraining has become a cornerstone of modern large-scale models across language, vision, and recently biology. Despite its empirical success, its role and limits in learning data representations have been unclear. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Mingze Dong , Leda Wang , Yuval Kluger

Masked image modeling is a promising self-supervised learning method for visual data. It is typically built upon image patches with random masks, which largely ignores the variation of information density between them. The question is: Is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Haijian Chen , Wendong Zhang , Yunbo Wang , Xiaokang Yang

The Masked Autoencoder (MAE) has recently demonstrated effectiveness in pre-training Vision Transformers (ViT) for analyzing natural images. By reconstructing complete images from partially masked inputs, the ViT encoder gathers contextual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Badhan Kumar Das , Gengyan Zhao , Han Liu , Thomas J. Re , Dorin Comaniciu , Eli Gibson , Andreas Maier

Autoencoders have been widely used for dimensional reduction and feature extraction. Various types of autoencoders have been proposed by introducing regularization terms. Most of these regularizations improve representation learning by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Yuzhu Guo , Kang Pan , Simeng Li , Zongchang Han , Kexin Wang , Li Li