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Masked Autoencoder~(MAE) is a prevailing self-supervised learning method that achieves promising results in model pre-training. However, when the various downstream tasks have data distributions different from the pre-training data, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Zhili Liu , Kai Chen , Jianhua Han , Lanqing Hong , Hang Xu , Zhenguo Li , James T. Kwok

Our MATE is the first Test-Time-Training (TTT) method designed for 3D data, which makes deep networks trained for point cloud classification robust to distribution shifts occurring in test data. Like existing TTT methods from the 2D image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 M. Jehanzeb Mirza , Inkyu Shin , Wei Lin , Andreas Schriebl , Kunyang Sun , Jaesung Choe , Horst Possegger , Mateusz Kozinski , In So Kweon , Kun-Jin Yoon , Horst Bischof

This paper tries to address a fundamental question in point cloud self-supervised learning: what is a good signal we should leverage to learn features from point clouds without annotations? To answer that, we introduce a point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Xiaoyu Tian , Haoxi Ran , Yue Wang , Hang Zhao

The scarcity of annotated data in LiDAR point cloud understanding hinders effective representation learning. Consequently, scholars have been actively investigating efficacious self-supervised pre-training paradigms. Nevertheless, temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Weijie Wei , Fatemeh Karimi Nejadasl , Theo Gevers , Martin R. Oswald

Recent advances in multi-modal pre-training methods have shown promising effectiveness in learning 3D representations by aligning multi-modal features between 3D shapes and their corresponding 2D counterparts. However, existing multi-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Liwen Liu , Weidong Yang , Lipeng Ma , Ben Fei

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

This paper shows that masked autoencoders (MAE) are scalable self-supervised learners for computer vision. Our MAE approach is simple: we mask random patches of the input image and reconstruct the missing pixels. It is based on two core…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Kaiming He , Xinlei Chen , Saining Xie , Yanghao Li , Piotr Dollár , Ross Girshick

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

We present a novel masked image modeling (MIM) approach, context autoencoder (CAE), for self-supervised representation pretraining. We pretrain an encoder by making predictions in the encoded representation space. The pretraining tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Xiaokang Chen , Mingyu Ding , Xiaodi Wang , Ying Xin , Shentong Mo , Yunhao Wang , Shumin Han , Ping Luo , Gang Zeng , Jingdong Wang

Self-supervised learning has attracted increasing attention as it learns data-driven representation from data without annotations. Vision transformer-based autoencoder (ViT-AE) by He et al. (2021) is a recent self-supervised learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Chinmay Prabhakar , Hongwei Bran Li , Jiancheng Yang , Suprosana Shit , Benedikt Wiestler , Bjoern Menze

While transformers have surpassed convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in various computer vision tasks, microelectronics defect detection still largely relies on CNNs. We hypothesize that this gap is due to the fact that a) transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Nikolai Röhrich , Alwin Hoffmann , Richard Nordsieck , Emilio Zarbali , Alireza Javanmardi

Vision-language representation learning largely benefits from image-text alignment through contrastive losses (e.g., InfoNCE loss). The success of this alignment strategy is attributed to its capability in maximizing the mutual information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Jinyu Yang , Jiali Duan , Son Tran , Yi Xu , Sampath Chanda , Liqun Chen , Belinda Zeng , Trishul Chilimbi , Junzhou Huang

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

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)…

Masked autoencoders (MAEs) have established themselves as a powerful method for unsupervised pre-training for computer vision tasks. While vanilla MAEs put equal emphasis on reconstructing the individual parts of the image, we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Leon Sick , Dominik Engel , Pedro Hermosilla , Timo Ropinski

Masked autoencoders (MAEs) represent a prominent self-supervised learning paradigm in computer vision. Despite their empirical success, the underlying mechanisms of MAEs remain insufficiently understood. Recent studies have attempted to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Tao Huang , Yanxiang Ma , Shan You , Chang Xu

Implementing cross-modal hashing between 2D images and 3D point-cloud data is a growing concern in real-world retrieval systems. Simply applying existing cross-modal approaches to this new task fails to adequately capture latent multi-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Rukai Wei , Heng Cui , Yu Liu , Yufeng Hou , Yanzhao Xie , Ke Zhou

Various state-of-the-art self-supervised visual representation learning approaches take advantage of data from multiple sensors by aligning the feature representations across views and/or modalities. In this work, we investigate how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Thomas M. Hehn , Julian F. P. Kooij , Dariu M. Gavrila

We focus on contrastive methods for self-supervised video representation learning. A common paradigm in contrastive learning is to construct positive pairs by sampling different data views for the same instance, with different data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Chen Sun , Arsha Nagrani , Yonglong Tian , Cordelia Schmid

Self supervision and natural language supervision have emerged as two exciting ways to train general purpose image encoders which excel at a variety of downstream tasks. Recent works such as M3AE and SLIP have suggested that these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Floris Weers , Vaishaal Shankar , Angelos Katharopoulos , Yinfei Yang , Tom Gunter