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This paper presents SimMIM, a simple framework for masked image modeling. We simplify recently proposed related approaches without special designs such as block-wise masking and tokenization via discrete VAE or clustering. To study what let…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Zhenda Xie , Zheng Zhang , Yue Cao , Yutong Lin , Jianmin Bao , Zhuliang Yao , Qi Dai , Han Hu

Learning robust and scalable visual representations from massive multi-view video data remains a challenge in computer vision and autonomous driving. Existing pre-training methods either rely on expensive supervised learning with 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Jialv Zou , Bencheng Liao , Qian Zhang , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Learning representations through self-supervision on unlabeled data has proven highly effective for understanding diverse images. However, remote sensing images often have complex and densely populated scenes with multiple land objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Mingming Zhang , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) has emerged as a promising approach for Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) of visual representations. However, the out-of-the-box performance of MIMs is typically inferior to competing approaches. Most users cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Marcin Przewięźlikowski , Randall Balestriero , Wojciech Jasiński , Marek Śmieja , Bartosz Zieliński

Masked Autoencoders (MAE) have been prevailing paradigms for large-scale vision representation pre-training. By reconstructing masked image patches from a small portion of visible image regions, MAE forces the model to infer semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Hongwei Xue , Peng Gao , Hongyang Li , Yu Qiao , Hao Sun , Houqiang Li , Jiebo Luo

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation is a salient task for 3D scene understanding. Learned jointly with monocular ego-motion estimation, several methods have been proposed to predict accurate pixel-wise depth without using labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Hemang Chawla , Kishaan Jeeveswaran , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Self-supervised learning on images seeks to extract meaningful visual representations from unlabeled data. When scaled to large datasets, this paradigm has achieved state-of-the-art performance and the resulting trained models such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 David Nordström , Johan Edstedt , Fredrik Kahl , Georg Bökman

Masked image modeling (MIM) has emerged as a promising approach for pre-training Vision Transformers (ViTs). MIMs predict masked tokens token-wise to recover target signals that are tokenized from images or generated by pre-trained models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Taekyung Kim , Byeongho Heo , Dongyoon Han

The self-supervised Masked Image Modeling (MIM) schema, following "mask-and-reconstruct" pipeline of recovering contents from masked image, has recently captured the increasing interest in the multimedia community, owing to the excellent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Hao Liu , Xinghua Jiang , Xin Li , Antai Guo , Deqiang Jiang , Bo Ren

Dense pixel-specific representation learning at scale has been bottlenecked due to the unavailability of large-scale multi-view datasets. Current methods for building effective pretraining datasets heavily rely on annotated 3D meshes, point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Kalyani Marathe , Mahtab Bigverdi , Nishat Khan , Tuhin Kundu , Patrick Howe , Sharan Ranjit S , Anand Bhattad , Aniruddha Kembhavi , Linda G. Shapiro , Ranjay Krishna

This work proposes a semantic segmentation network that produces high-quality uncertainty estimates in a single forward pass. We exploit general representations from foundation models and unlabelled datasets through a Masked Image Modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 David S. W. Williams , Matthew Gadd , Paul Newman , Daniele De Martini

Recent masked image modeling (MIM) has received much attention in self-supervised learning (SSL), which requires the target model to recover the masked part of the input image. Although MIM-based pre-training methods achieve new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Qiang Zhou , Chaohui Yu , Hao Luo , Zhibin Wang , Hao Li

Masked image modeling has demonstrated great potential to eliminate the label-hungry problem of training large-scale vision Transformers, achieving impressive performance on various downstream tasks. In this work, we propose a unified view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Zhiliang Peng , Li Dong , Hangbo Bao , Qixiang Ye , Furu Wei

In vision-language pre-training (VLP), masked image modeling (MIM) has recently been introduced for fine-grained cross-modal alignment. However, in most existing methods, the reconstruction targets for MIM lack high-level semantics, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Haowei Liu , Yaya Shi , Haiyang Xu , Chunfeng Yuan , Qinghao Ye , Chenliang Li , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Fei Huang , Bing Li , Weiming Hu

Masked image modeling (MIM) has become a prevalent pre-training setup for vision foundation models and attains promising performance. Despite its success, existing MIM methods discard the decoder network during downstream applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Qi Han , Yuxuan Cai , Xiangyu Zhang

We introduce Correlational Image Modeling (CIM), a novel and surprisingly effective approach to self-supervised visual pre-training. Our CIM performs a simple pretext task: we randomly crop image regions (exemplars) from an input image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Wei Li , Jiahao Xie , Chen Change Loy

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) has achieved impressive representative performance with the aim of reconstructing randomly masked images. Despite the empirical success, most previous works have neglected the important fact that it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Junde Xu , Zikai Lin , Donghao Zhou , Yaodong Yang , Xiangyun Liao , Bian Wu , Guangyong Chen , Pheng-Ann Heng

Masked image modeling (MIM) learns visual representation by masking and reconstructing image patches. Applying the reconstruction supervision on the CLIP representation has been proven effective for MIM. However, it is still under-explored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Xinyu Zhang , Jiahui Chen , Junkun Yuan , Qiang Chen , Jian Wang , Xiaodi Wang , Shumin Han , Xiaokang Chen , Jimin Pi , Kun Yao , Junyu Han , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang

This paper represents a neat yet effective framework, named SemanticMIM, to integrate the advantages of masked image modeling (MIM) and contrastive learning (CL) for general visual representation. We conduct a thorough comparative analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yike Yuan , Huanzhang Dou , Fengjun Guo , Xi Li

Learning representations that generalize well to unknown downstream tasks is a central challenge in representation learning. Existing approaches such as contrastive learning, self-supervised masking, and denoising auto-encoders address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Micha Livne