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Contrastive learning (CL) for Vision Transformers (ViTs) in image domains has achieved performance comparable to CL for traditional convolutional backbones. However, in 3D point cloud pretraining with ViTs, masked autoencoder (MAE) modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Bin Ren , Guofeng Mei , Danda Pani Paudel , Weijie Wang , Yawei Li , Mengyuan Liu , Rita Cucchiara , Luc Van Gool , Nicu Sebe

Masked Autoencoder (MAE) is a self-supervised approach for representation learning, widely applicable to a variety of downstream tasks in computer vision. In spite of its success, it is still not fully uncovered what and how MAE exactly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Jeongwoo Shin , Inseo Lee , Junho Lee , Joonseok Lee

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)…

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

Self-supervised pre-training has proven highly effective for many computer vision tasks, particularly when labelled data are scarce. In the context of Earth Observation (EO), foundation models and various other Vision Transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Jose Sosa , Mohamed Aloulou , Danila Rukhovich , Rim Sleimi , Boonyarit Changaival , Anis Kacem , Djamila Aouada

The Vision Transformer (ViT) has demonstrated remarkable performance in Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) for 3D medical image analysis. Masked AutoEncoder (MAE) for feature pre-training can further unleash the potential of ViT on various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Jiaxin Zhuang , Linshan Wu , Qiong Wang , Peng Fei , Varut Vardhanabhuti , Lin Luo , Hao Chen

Masked Autoencoders (MAE) have been popular paradigms for large-scale vision representation pre-training. However, MAE solely reconstructs the low-level RGB signals after the decoder and lacks supervision upon high-level semantics for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Peng Gao , Renrui Zhang , Rongyao Fang , Ziyi Lin , Hongyang Li , Hongsheng Li , Qiao Yu

Masked AutoEncoder (MAE) has recently led the trends of visual self-supervision area by an elegant asymmetric encoder-decoder design, which significantly optimizes both the pre-training efficiency and fine-tuning accuracy. Notably, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Xiang Li , Wenhai Wang , Lingfeng Yang , Jian Yang

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

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

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

Featurizing microscopy images for use in biological research remains a significant challenge, especially for large-scale experiments spanning millions of images. This work explores the scaling properties of weakly supervised classifiers and…

"Masked Autoencoders (MAE) Are Scalable Vision Learners" revolutionizes the self-supervised learning method in that it not only achieves the state-of-the-art for image pre-training, but is also a milestone that bridges the gap between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Shuhao Cao , Peng Xu , David A. Clifton

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

Masked autoencoder (MAE), a simple and effective self-supervised learning framework based on the reconstruction of masked image regions, has recently achieved prominent success in a variety of vision tasks. Despite the emergence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Lingjing Kong , Martin Q. Ma , Guangyi Chen , Eric P. Xing , Yuejie Chi , Louis-Philippe Morency , Kun Zhang

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

Self-supervised learning on large-scale Vision Transformers (ViTs) as pre-training methods has achieved promising downstream performance. Yet, how much these pre-training paradigms promote lightweight ViTs' performance is considerably less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Shaoru Wang , Jin Gao , Zeming Li , Xiaoqin Zhang , Weiming Hu

We address the challenge of training Vision Transformers (ViTs) when labeled data is scarce but unlabeled data is abundant. We propose Semi-Supervised Masked Autoencoder (SSMAE), a framework that jointly optimizes masked image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Atik Faysal , Mohammad Rostami , Reihaneh Gh. Roshan , Nikhil Muralidhar , Huaxia Wang

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

In this paper, we first extend the recent Masked Auto-Encoder (MAE) model from a single modality to audio-visual multi-modalities. Subsequently, we propose the Contrastive Audio-Visual Masked Auto-Encoder (CAV-MAE) by combining contrastive…