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Retrieval systems rely on representations learned by increasingly powerful models. However, due to the high training cost and inconsistencies in learned representations, there is significant interest in facilitating communication between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Simone Ricci , Niccolò Biondi , Federico Pernici , Ioannis Patras , Alberto Del Bimbo

Foundation models in language and vision have the ability to run inference on any textual and visual inputs thanks to the transferable representations such as a vocabulary of tokens in language. Knowledge graphs (KGs) have different entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Mikhail Galkin , Xinyu Yuan , Hesham Mostafa , Jian Tang , Zhaocheng Zhu

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) is vital for alleviating the workload of labeling 3D point cloud data and mitigating the absence of labels when facing a newly defined domain. Various methods of utilizing images to enhance the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Jingyi Xu , Weidong Yang , Lingdong Kong , Youquan Liu , Rui Zhang , Qingyuan Zhou , Ben Fei

Retinal image matching plays a crucial role in monitoring disease progression and treatment response. However, datasets with matched keypoints between temporally separated pairs of images are not available in abundance to train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Sahar Almahfouz Nasser , Nihar Gupte , Amit Sethi

Advanced interpretation of hyperspectral remote sensing images benefits many precise Earth observation tasks. Recently, visual foundation models have promoted the remote sensing interpretation but concentrating on RGB and multispectral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Jingtao Li , Yingyi Liu , Xinyu Wang , Yunning Peng , Chen Sun , Shaoyu Wang , Zhendong Sun , Tian Ke , Xiao Jiang , Tangwei Lu , Anran Zhao , Yanfei Zhong

Radiological analysis increasingly benefits from pretrained visual representations that can support heterogeneous downstream tasks across imaging modalities. In this work, we introduce OmniRad, a self-supervised radiological foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Luca Zedda , Andrea Loddo , Cecilia Di Ruberto

Foundation models for medical imaging demonstrate superior generalization capabilities across diverse anatomical structures and clinical applications. Their outstanding performance relies on substantial computational resources, limiting…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Chen Ma , Jing Jiao , Shuyu Liang , Junhu Fu , Qin Wang , Zeju Li , Yuanyuan Wang , Yi Guo

Diagnosing and treating skin diseases require advanced visual skills across domains and the ability to synthesize information from multiple imaging modalities. While current deep learning models excel at specific tasks like skin cancer…

The joint interpretation of multi-modal and multi-view fundus images is critical for retinopathy prevention, as different views can show the complete 3D eyeball field and different modalities can provide complementary lesion areas. Compared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yonghao Huang , Leiting Chen , Chuan Zhou

Ophthalmic images and derivatives such as the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness map are crucial for detecting and monitoring ophthalmic diseases (e.g., glaucoma). For computer-aided diagnosis of eye diseases, the key technique is…

With the growing interest in foundation models for brain signals, graph-based pretraining has emerged as a promising paradigm for learning transferable representations from connectome data. However, existing contrastive and masked…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xinxu Wei , Rong Zhou , Lifang He , Yu Zhang

Multi-modal retrieval has seen tremendous progress with the development of vision-language models. However, further improving these models require additional labelled data which is a huge manual effort. In this paper, we propose a framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Avinash Madasu , Estelle Aflalo , Gabriela Ben Melech Stan , Shachar Rosenman , Shao-Yen Tseng , Gedas Bertasius , Vasudev Lal

Foundation models constitute a significant advancement in computer vision: after a single, albeit costly, training phase, they can address a wide array of tasks. In the field of Earth observation, over 75 remote sensing vision foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Pierre Adorni , Minh-Tan Pham , Stéphane May , Sébastien Lefèvre

Medical Image Retrieval (MIR) helps doctors quickly find similar patients' data, which can considerably aid the diagnosis process. MIR is becoming increasingly helpful due to the wide use of digital imaging modalities and the growth of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Yang Feng , Yubao Liu , Jiebo Luo

We survey applications of pretrained foundation models in robotics. Traditional deep learning models in robotics are trained on small datasets tailored for specific tasks, which limits their adaptability across diverse applications. In…

Challenges in the field of retinal prostheses motivate the development of retinal models to accurately simulate Retinal Ganglion Cells (RGCs) responses. The goal of retinal prostheses is to enable blind individuals to solve complex,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Nikolas Papadopoulos , Nikos Melanitis , Antonio Lozano , Cristina Soto-Sanchez , Eduardo Fernandez , Konstantina S Nikita

Foundation models are vital tools in various Computer Vision applications. They take as input a single RGB image and output a deep feature representation that is useful for various applications. However, in case we have multiple views of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Leo Segre , Or Hirschorn , Shai Avidan

This work asks: with abundant, unlabeled real faces, how to learn a robust and transferable facial representation that boosts various face security tasks with respect to generalization performance? We make the first attempt and propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Gaojian Wang , Feng Lin , Tong Wu , Zhenguang Liu , Zhongjie Ba , Kui Ren

Person re-identification (ReID) aims at re-identifying persons from different viewpoints across multiple cameras, of which it is of great importance to learn multifaceted features expressed in different parts of a person, e.g., clothes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Cheng Yan , Guansong Pang , Xiao Bai , Chunhua Shen

There is substantial interest in developing artificial intelligence systems to support radiologists across tasks ranging from segmentation to report generation. Existing computed tomography (CT) foundation models have largely focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Rubén Moreno-Aguado , Alba Magallón , Victor Moreno , Yingying Fang , Guang Yang