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Self-supervised methods have shown tremendous success in the field of computer vision, including applications in remote sensing and medical imaging. Most popular contrastive-loss based methods like SimCLR, MoCo, MoCo-v2 use multiple views…

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Existing vision-text contrastive learning like CLIP aims to match the paired image and caption embeddings while pushing others apart, which improves representation transferability and supports zero-shot prediction. However, medical…

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Vision-language models (VLMs) mainly rely on contrastive training to learn general-purpose representations of images and captions. We focus on the situation when one image is associated with several captions, each caption containing both…

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Contemporary medical contrastive learning faces challenges from inconsistent semantics and sample pair morphology, leading to dispersed and converging semantic shifts. The variability in text reports, due to multiple authors, complicates…

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There are not many large medical image datasets available. For these datasets, too small deep learning models can't learn useful features, so they don't work well due to underfitting, and too big models tend to overfit the limited data. As…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-02 Pervaiz Iqbal Khan , Andreas Dengel , Sheraz Ahmed

Accurate segmentation of laryngo-pharyngeal tumors is crucial for precise diagnosis and effective treatment planning. However, traditional single-modality imaging methods often fall short of capturing the complex anatomical and pathological…

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Recently, self-supervised representation learning gives further development in multimedia technology. Most existing self-supervised learning methods are applicable to packaged data. However, when it comes to streamed data, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Zhiwei Lin , Yongtao Wang , Hongxiang Lin

Contrastive vision-language models such as CLIP have demonstrated strong performance across a wide range of multimodal tasks by learning from aligned image-text pairs. However, their ability to handle complex, real-world web documents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yiqi Lin , Alex Jinpeng Wang , Linjie Li , Zhengyuan Yang , Mike Zheng Shou

Learning representations of multimodal data that are both informative and robust to missing modalities at test time remains a challenging problem due to the inherent heterogeneity of data obtained from different channels. To address it, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Petra Poklukar , Miguel Vasco , Hang Yin , Francisco S. Melo , Ana Paiva , Danica Kragic

The use of ML in cybersecurity has long been impaired by generalization issues: Models that work well in controlled scenarios fail to maintain performance in production. The root cause often lies in ML algorithms learning superficial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Jianan Huang , Rodolfo V. Valentim , Luca Vassio , Matteo Boffa , Marco Mellia , Idilio Drago , Dario Rossi

Multimodal representation learning, exemplified by multimodal contrastive learning (MMCL) using image-text pairs, aims to learn powerful representations by aligning cues across modalities. This approach relies on the core assumption that…

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is crucial for enhancing diagnostic accuracy in clinical settings. However, the inherent long scan time of MRI restricts its widespread applicability. Deep learning-based image super-resolution (SR) methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-19 Hao Li , Quanwei Liu , Jianan Liu , Xiling Liu , Yanni Dong , Tao Huang , Zhihan Lv

Contrastive learning has demonstrated great effectiveness in representation learning especially for image classification tasks. However, there is still a shortage in the studies targeting regression tasks, and more specifically applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Mohamad Dhaini , Maxime Berar , Paul Honeine , Antonin Van Exem

Self-supervised learning (SSL) approaches have achieved great success when the amount of labeled data is limited. Within SSL, models learn robust feature representations by solving pretext tasks. One such pretext task is contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Jamshid Hassanpour , Vinkle Srivastav , Didier Mutter , Nicolas Padoy

In recent years, self-supervised representation learning for skeleton-based action recognition has advanced with the development of contrastive learning methods. However, most of contrastive paradigms are inherently discriminative and often…

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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

Deep learning models for dermatological image analysis remain sensitive to acquisition variability and domain-specific visual characteristics, leading to performance degradation when deployed in clinical settings. We investigate how visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Rodrigo Mota , Kelvin Cunha , Emanoel dos Santos , Fábio Papais , Francisco Filho , Thales Bezerra , Erico Medeiros , Paulo Borba , Tsang Ing Ren

As digital medical imaging becomes more prevalent and archives increase in size, representation learning exposes an interesting opportunity for enhanced medical decision support systems. On the other hand, medical imaging data is often…

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Understanding vision and language representations of product content is vital for search and recommendation applications in e-commerce. As a backbone for online shopping platforms and inspired by the recent success in representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Wonyoung Shin , Jonghun Park , Taekang Woo , Yongwoo Cho , Kwangjin Oh , Hwanjun Song

Instruction-tuned large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising zero-shot generalization capabilities across various downstream tasks. Recent research has introduced multimodal capabilities to LLMs by integrating independently…

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