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Masked autoencoders (MAE) have recently been introduced to 3D self-supervised pretraining for point clouds due to their great success in NLP and computer vision. Unlike MAEs used in the image domain, where the pretext task is to restore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Siming Yan , Yuqi Yang , Yuxiao Guo , Hao Pan , Peng-shuai Wang , Xin Tong , Yang Liu , Qixing Huang

Learning representations from videos requires understanding continuous motion and visual correspondences between frames. In this paper, we introduce the Concatenated Masked Autoencoders (CatMAE) as a spatial-temporal learner for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Zhouqiang Jiang , Bowen Wang , Tong Xiang , Zhaofeng Niu , Hong Tang , Guangshun Li , Liangzhi Li

Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) have emerged as a powerful pretraining technique for vision foundation models. Despite their effectiveness, they require extensive hyperparameter tuning (masking ratio, patch size, encoder/decoder layers) when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Anthony Bisulco , Rahul Ramesh , Randall Balestriero , Pratik Chaudhari

Recently, self-supervised Masked Autoencoders (MAE) have attracted unprecedented attention for their impressive representation learning ability. However, the pretext task, Masked Image Modeling (MIM), reconstructs the missing local patches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Feng Liang , Yangguang Li , Diana Marculescu

Whole-slide images are central to digital pathology, yet their extreme size and scarce annotations make self-supervised learning essential. Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) with Vision Transformer backbones have recently shown strong potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Raneen Younis , Louay Hamdi , Lukas Chavez , Zahra Ahmadi

Masked image modeling has been demonstrated as a powerful pretext task for generating robust representations that can be effectively generalized across multiple downstream tasks. Typically, this approach involves randomly masking patches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Neelu Madan , Nicolae-Catalin Ristea , Kamal Nasrollahi , Thomas B. Moeslund , Radu Tudor Ionescu

Masked Autoencoder (MAE) has demonstrated superior performance on various vision tasks via randomly masking image patches and reconstruction. However, effective data augmentation strategies for MAE still remain open questions, different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Kai Chen , Zhili Liu , Lanqing Hong , Hang Xu , Zhenguo Li , Dit-Yan Yeung

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)…

Learning 3D representation plays a critical role in masked autoencoder (MAE) based pre-training methods for point cloud, including single-modal and cross-modal based MAE. Specifically, although cross-modal MAE methods learn strong 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yaohua Zha , Huizhen Ji , Jinmin Li , Rongsheng Li , Tao Dai , Bin Chen , Zhi Wang , Shu-Tao Xia

Masked auto-encoder pre-training has emerged as a prevalent technique for initializing and enhancing dense retrieval systems. It generally utilizes additional Transformer decoder blocks to provide sustainable supervision signals and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Guangyuan Ma , Xing Wu , Zijia Lin , Songlin Hu

Self-supervised pre-training for images without labels has recently achieved promising performance in image classification. The success of transformer-based methods, ViT and MAE, draws the community's attention to the design of backbone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Jiantao Wu , Shentong Mo

Masked Autoencoders (MAE) based on a reconstruction task have risen to be a promising paradigm for self-supervised learning (SSL) and achieve state-of-the-art performance across different benchmark datasets. However, despite its impressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Qi Zhang , Yifei Wang , Yisen Wang

Recently, self-supervised pre-training has advanced Vision Transformers on various tasks w.r.t. different data modalities, e.g., image and 3D point cloud data. In this paper, we explore this learning paradigm for 3D mesh data analysis based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Yaqian Liang , Shanshan Zhao , Baosheng Yu , Jing Zhang , Fazhi He

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

Masked Autoencoders (MAE) have been prevailing paradigms for large-scale vision representation pre-training. By reconstructing masked image patches from a small portion of visible image regions, MAE forces the model to infer semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Hongwei Xue , Peng Gao , Hongyang Li , Yu Qiao , Hao Sun , Houqiang Li , Jiebo Luo

The use of self-supervised pre-training has emerged as a promising approach to enhance the performance of many different visual tasks. In this context, recent approaches have employed the Masked Image Modeling paradigm, which pre-trains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Lorenzo Baraldi , Roberto Amoroso , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Andrea Pilzer , Rita Cucchiara

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

Self-supervised learning has been a powerful training paradigm to facilitate representation learning. In this study, we design a masked autoencoder (MAE) to guide deep learning models to learn electroencephalography (EEG) signal…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yifei Zhou , Sitong Liu

Masked image modeling (MIM) has been recognized as a strong self-supervised pre-training approach in the vision domain. However, the mechanism and properties of the learned representations by such a scheme, as well as how to further enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Kevin Zhang , Zhiqiang Shen

Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) achieve impressive performance in image classification tasks, yet the internal representations they learn remain less understood. This work started as an attempt to understand the strong downstream classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Anika Shrivastava , Renu Rameshan , Samar Agnihotri