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We present a pipeline of Image to Vector (Img2Vec) for masked image modeling (MIM) with deep features. To study which type of deep features is appropriate for MIM as a learning target, we propose a simple MIM framework with serials of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Heng Pan , Chenyang Liu , Wenxiao Wang , Li Yuan , Hongfa Wang , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu

Image BERT pre-training with masked image modeling (MIM) becomes a popular practice to cope with self-supervised representation learning. A seminal work, BEiT, casts MIM as a classification task with a visual vocabulary, tokenizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Xiaotong Li , Yixiao Ge , Kun Yi , Zixuan Hu , Ying Shan , Ling-Yu Duan

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) offers a promising approach to self-supervised representation learning, however existing MIM models still lag behind the state-of-the-art. In this paper, we systematically analyze target representations, loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Timothée Darcet , Federico Baldassarre , Maxime Oquab , Julien Mairal , Piotr Bojanowski

Masked image modeling (MIM) has gained significant traction for its remarkable prowess in representation learning. As an alternative to the traditional approach, the reconstruction from corrupted images has recently emerged as a promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Wenzhao Xiang , Chang Liu , Hang Su , Hongyang Yu

Mix-based augmentation has been proven fundamental to the generalization of deep vision models. However, current augmentations only mix samples at the current data batch during training, which ignores the possible knowledge accumulated in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Lingfeng Yang , Xiang Li , Borui Zhao , Renjie Song , Jian Yang

We introduce Corrupted Image Modeling (CIM) for self-supervised visual pre-training. CIM uses an auxiliary generator with a small trainable BEiT to corrupt the input image instead of using artificial [MASK] tokens, where some patches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Yuxin Fang , Li Dong , Hangbo Bao , Xinggang Wang , Furu Wei

CutMix is a vital augmentation strategy that determines the performance and generalization ability of vision transformers (ViTs). However, the inconsistency between the mixed images and the corresponding labels harms its efficacy. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Mengzhao Chen , Mingbao Lin , ZhiHang Lin , Yuxin Zhang , Fei Chao , Rongrong Ji

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) has achieved promising progress with the advent of Masked Autoencoders (MAE) and BEiT. However, subsequent works have complicated the framework with new auxiliary tasks or extra pre-trained models, inevitably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Yuan Liu , Songyang Zhang , Jiacheng Chen , Kai Chen , Dahua Lin

The combination of transformers and masked image modeling (MIM) pre-training framework has shown great potential in various vision tasks. However, the pre-training computational budget is too heavy and withholds the MIM from becoming a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Jianyuan Guo , Kai Han , Han Wu , Yehui Tang , Yunhe Wang , Chang Xu

In this work, we survey recent studies on masked image modeling (MIM), an approach that emerged as a powerful self-supervised learning technique in computer vision. The MIM task involves masking some information, e.g. pixels, patches, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Vlad Hondru , Florinel Alin Croitoru , Shervin Minaee , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Nicu Sebe

The success of language Transformers is primarily attributed to the pretext task of masked language modeling (MLM), where texts are first tokenized into semantically meaningful pieces. In this work, we study masked image modeling (MIM) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Jinghao Zhou , Chen Wei , Huiyu Wang , Wei Shen , Cihang Xie , Alan Yuille , Tao Kong

Remote sensing scene classification has been extensively studied for its critical roles in geological survey, oil exploration, traffic management, earthquake prediction, wildfire monitoring, and intelligence monitoring. In the past, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Liya Wang , Alex Tien

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) is a technique in self-supervised learning that focuses on acquiring detailed visual representations from unlabeled images by estimating the missing pixels in randomly masked sections. It has proven to be a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Khanh-Binh Nguyen , Chae Jung Park

Recent advancements in masked image modeling (MIM) have made it a prevailing framework for self-supervised visual representation learning. The MIM pretrained models, like most deep neural network methods, remain vulnerable to adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Zunzhi You , Daochang Liu , Bohyung Han , Chang Xu

The self-supervised Masked Image Modeling (MIM) schema, following "mask-and-reconstruct" pipeline of recovering contents from masked image, has recently captured the increasing interest in the multimedia community, owing to the excellent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Hao Liu , Xinghua Jiang , Xin Li , Antai Guo , Deqiang Jiang , Bo Ren

In recent years, the demand of image compression models for machine vision has increased dramatically. However, the training frameworks of image compression still focus on the vision of human, maintaining the excessive perceptual details,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Hyeonjin Lee , Jun-Hyuk Kim , Jong-Seok Lee

This paper presents SimCLR: a simple framework for contrastive learning of visual representations. We simplify recently proposed contrastive self-supervised learning algorithms without requiring specialized architectures or a memory bank.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Ting Chen , Simon Kornblith , Mohammad Norouzi , Geoffrey Hinton

Existing contrastive language-image pre-training aims to learn a joint representation by matching abundant image-text pairs. However, the number of image-text pairs in medical datasets is usually orders of magnitude smaller than that in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Jiarun Liu , Hong-Yu Zhou , Cheng Li , Weijian Huang , Hao Yang , Yong Liang , Shanshan Wang

Most existing text recognition methods are trained on large-scale synthetic datasets due to the scarcity of labeled real-world datasets. Synthetic images, however, cannot faithfully reproduce real-world scenarios, such as uneven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Zhengmi Tang , Yuto Mitsui , Tomo Miyazaki , Shinichiro Omachi

Vision-and-Language Pre-training (VLP) improves model performance for downstream tasks that require image and text inputs. Current VLP approaches differ on (i) model architecture (especially image embedders), (ii) loss functions, and (iii)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Tarik Arici , Mehmet Saygin Seyfioglu , Tal Neiman , Yi Xu , Son Train , Trishul Chilimbi , Belinda Zeng , Ismail Tutar