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Attention mechanisms that confer selective focus on a strict subset of input elements are nearly ubiquitous in language models today. We posit there to be downside to the use of attention: most input information is lost. In support of this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Benjamin L. Badger

Unsupervised learning is becoming more and more important recently. As one of its key components, the autoencoder (AE) aims to learn a latent feature representation of data which is more robust and discriminative. However, most AE based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Jingcai Guo , Song Guo

Masked AutoEncoders (MAE) have emerged as a robust self-supervised framework, offering remarkable performance across a wide range of downstream tasks. To increase the difficulty of the pretext task and learn richer visual representations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Carlos Hinojosa , Shuming Liu , Bernard Ghanem

Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable progress in enhancing low-light images by improving their brightness and eliminating noise. However, most existing methods construct end-to-end mapping networks heuristically, neglecting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Naishan Zheng , Man Zhou , Yanmeng Dong , Xiangyu Rui , Jie Huang , Chongyi Li , Feng Zhao

The accurate segmentation of lesions in whole-body PET/CT imaging is es-sential for tumor characterization, treatment planning, and response assess-ment, yet current manual workflows are labor-intensive and prone to inter-observer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Moona Mazher , Steven A Niederer , Abdul Qayyum

Variational Autoencoders and their many variants have displayed impressive ability to perform dimensionality reduction, often achieving state-of-the-art performance. Many current methods however, struggle to learn good representations in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Navindu Leelarathna , Andrei Margeloiu , Mateja Jamnik , Nikola Simidjievski

Dynamic vision sensors (DVS) are bio-inspired devices that capture visual information in the form of asynchronous events, which encode changes in pixel intensity with high temporal resolution and low latency. These events provide rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Jingkai Sun , Qiang Zhang , Jiaxu Wang , Jiahang Cao , Renjing Xu

We propose Masked Capsule Autoencoders (MCAE), the first Capsule Network that utilises pretraining in a modern self-supervised paradigm, specifically the masked image modelling framework. Capsule Networks have emerged as a powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Miles Everett , Mingjun Zhong , Georgios Leontidis

Recent speech modeling relies on explicit attributes such as pitch, content, and speaker identity, but these alone cannot capture the full richness of natural speech. We introduce RT-MAE, a novel masked autoencoder framework that augments…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Samir Sadok , Stéphane Lathuilière , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

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

To train Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) to generate realistic imagery requires a loss function that reflects human perception of image similarity. We propose such a loss function based on Watson's perceptual model, which computes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Steffen Czolbe , Oswin Krause , Ingemar Cox , Christian Igel

Current Facial Action Unit (FAU) detection methods generally encounter difficulties due to the scarcity of labeled video training data and the limited number of training face IDs, which renders the trained feature extractor insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Qiaoqiao Jin , Rui Shi , Yishun Dou , Bingbing Ni

We present the Material Masked Autoencoder (MMAE), a self-supervised Vision Transformer pretrained on a large corpus of short-fiber composite images via masked image reconstruction. The pretrained MMAE learns latent representations that…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Ting-Ju Wei , Chuin-Shan Chen

Variational AutoEncoders (VAEs) provide a means to generate representational latent embeddings. Previous research has highlighted the benefits of achieving representations that are disentangled, particularly for downstream tasks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Matthew J. Vowels , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

Masked image modeling (MIM) has achieved promising results on various vision tasks. However, the limited discriminability of learned representation manifests there is still plenty to go for making a stronger vision learner. Towards this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Zhicheng Huang , Xiaojie Jin , Chengze Lu , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng , Dongmei Fu , Xiaohui Shen , Jiashi Feng

Recent advances in deep learning have shown their ability to learn strong feature representations for images. The task of image clustering naturally requires good feature representations to capture the distribution of the data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Vignesh Prasad , Dipanjan Das , Brojeshwar Bhowmick

As a class of fruitful approaches, diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have shown excellent advantages in high-resolution image reconstruction. On the other hand, masked autoencoders (MAEs), as popular self-supervised vision learners,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Zhiyuan Ma , zhihuan yu , Jianjun Li , Bowen Zhou

Masked Autoencoders (MAE) play a pivotal role in learning potent representations, delivering outstanding results across various 3D perception tasks essential for autonomous driving. In real-world driving scenarios, it's commonplace to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Jian Zou , Tianyu Huang , Guanglei Yang , Zhenhua Guo , Tao Luo , Chun-Mei Feng , Wangmeng Zuo

Human social behaviors are inherently multimodal necessitating the development of powerful audiovisual models for their perception. In this paper, we present Social-MAE, our pre-trained audiovisual Masked Autoencoder based on an extended…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Hugo Bohy , Minh Tran , Kevin El Haddad , Thierry Dutoit , Mohammad Soleymani

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