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Heterogeneous face recognition (HFR) refers to matching face images acquired from different domains with wide applications in security scenarios. This paper presents a deep neural network approach namely Multi-Margin based Decorrelation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Bing Cao , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao , Jie Li , Zhifeng Li

With the rapid development and wide application of computer, camera device, network and hardware technology, 3D object (or model) retrieval has attracted widespread attention and it has become a hot research topic in the computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Z. Gao , K. X Xue , S. H Wan

Text classification is a crucial and fundamental task in web content mining. Compared with the previous learning paradigm of pre-training and fine-tuning by cross entropy loss, the recently proposed supervised contrastive learning approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Mengyu Li , Yonghao Liu , Fausto Giunchiglia , Ximing Li , Xiaoyue Feng , Renchu Guan

Image-Text Retrieval (ITR) is challenging in bridging visual and lingual modalities. Contrastive learning has been adopted by most prior arts. Except for limited amount of negative image-text pairs, the capability of constrastive learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Haoran Wang , Dongliang He , Wenhao Wu , Boyang Xia , Min Yang , Fu Li , Yunlong Yu , Zhong Ji , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang

While existing semi-supervised object detection (SSOD) methods perform well in general scenes, they encounter challenges in handling oriented objects in aerial images. We experimentally find three gaps between general and oriented object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Chenxu Wang , Chunyan Xu , Ziqi Gu , Zhen Cui

Discriminative learning effectively predicts true object class for image classification. However, it often results in false positives for outliers, posing critical concerns in applications like autonomous driving and video surveillance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Masoud Taghikhah , Nishant Kumar , Siniša Šegvić , Abouzar Eslami , Stefan Gumhold

This study introduces the Multi-Scale Weight-Based Pairwise Coarsening and Contrastive Learning (MPCCL) model, a novel approach for attributed graph clustering that effectively bridges critical gaps in existing methods, including long-range…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Binxiong Li , Yuefei Wang , Binyu Zhao , Heyang Gao , Benhan Yang , Quanzhou Luo , Xue Li , Xu Xiang , Yujie Liu , Huijie Tang

To learn intrinsic low-dimensional structures from high-dimensional data that most discriminate between classes, we propose the principle of Maximal Coding Rate Reduction ($\text{MCR}^2$), an information-theoretic measure that maximizes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Yaodong Yu , Kwan Ho Ryan Chan , Chong You , Chaobing Song , Yi Ma

The image-text retrieval task aims to retrieve relevant information from a given image or text. The main challenge is to unify multimodal representation and distinguish fine-grained differences across modalities, thereby finding similar…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Ziyu Gong , Chengcheng Mai , Yihua Huang

Dense retrieval (DR) has shown promising results in information retrieval. In essence, DR requires high-quality text representations to support effective search in the representation space. Recent studies have shown that pre-trained…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Xinyu Ma , Ruqing Zhang , Jiafeng Guo , Yixing Fan , Xueqi Cheng

As a cross-topic of multi-view learning and multi-label classification, multi-view multi-label classification has gradually gained traction in recent years. The application of multi-view contrastive learning has further facilitated this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Chengliang Liu , Jie Wen , Yong Xu , Bob Zhang , Liqiang Nie , Min Zhang

The proliferation of Deep Learning (DL)-based methods for radiographic image analysis has created a great demand for expert-labeled radiology data. Recent self-supervised frameworks have alleviated the need for expert labeling by obtaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 S. A. Rizvi , R. Tang , X. Jiang , X. Ma , X. Hu

Unsupervised clustering aims at discovering the semantic categories of data according to some distance measured in the representation space. However, different categories often overlap with each other in the representation space at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Dejiao Zhang , Feng Nan , Xiaokai Wei , Shangwen Li , Henghui Zhu , Kathleen McKeown , Ramesh Nallapati , Andrew Arnold , Bing Xiang

Few-shot object detection has been extensively investigated by incorporating meta-learning into region-based detection frameworks. Despite its success, the said paradigm is constrained by several factors, such as (i) low-quality region…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Gongjie Zhang , Zhipeng Luo , Kaiwen Cui , Shijian Lu

We investigate contrastive learning in the federated setting through the lens of SimCLR and multi-view mutual information maximization. In doing so, we uncover a connection between contrastive representation learning and user verification;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Christos Louizos , Matthias Reisser , Denis Korzhenkov

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods targeting scene images have seen a rapid growth recently, and they mostly rely on either a dedicated dense matching mechanism or a costly unsupervised object discovery module. This paper shows that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Ke Zhu , Minghao Fu , Jianxin Wu

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) requires identifying objects from images based on textual descriptions. We observe that existing methods significantly underperform on motion-related queries compared to appearance-based ones. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Chaeyun Kim , Seunghoon Yi , Yejin Kim , Yohan Jo , Joonseok Lee

Recently, multimodal contrastive learning (MMCL) approaches, such as CLIP, have achieved a remarkable success in learning representations that are robust against distribution shift and generalize to new domains. Despite the empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yihao Xue , Siddharth Joshi , Dang Nguyen , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Detectingandsegmentingobjectswithinwholeslideimagesis essential in computational pathology workflow. Self-supervised learning (SSL) is appealing to such annotation-heavy tasks. Despite the extensive benchmarks in natural images for dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Jiawei Yang , Hanbo Chen , Yuan Liang , Junzhou Huang , Lei He , Jianhua Yao

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