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Appearance-based gaze estimation has shown great promise in many applications by using a single general-purpose camera as the input device. However, its success is highly depending on the availability of large-scale well-annotated gaze…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Lingyu Du , Xucong Zhang , Guohao Lan

Deep learning has revolutionized various fields, yet its efficacy is hindered by overfitting and the requirement of extensive annotated data, particularly in few-shot learning scenarios where limited samples are available. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Jiacheng Hu , Zhen Qi , Jianjun Wei , Jiajing Chen , Runyuan Bao , Xinyu Qiu

Metric-based meta-learning techniques have successfully been applied to few-shot classification problems. In this paper, we propose to leverage cross-modal information to enhance metric-based few-shot learning methods. Visual and semantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Chen Xing , Negar Rostamzadeh , Boris N. Oreshkin , Pedro O. Pinheiro

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) methods, like Masked Autoencoders (MAE), efficiently learn a rich representation of the input. However, for adapting to downstream tasks, they require a sufficient amount of labeled data since their rich features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Johannes Lehner , Benedikt Alkin , Andreas Fürst , Elisabeth Rumetshofer , Lukas Miklautz , Sepp Hochreiter

Masked Autoencoders (MAE) achieve self-supervised learning of image representations by randomly removing a portion of visual tokens and reconstructing the original image as a pretext task, thereby significantly enhancing pretraining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jiaxuan Li , Qing Xu , Xiangjian He , Ziyu Liu , Chang Xing , Zhen Chen , Daokun Zhang , Rong Qu , Chang Wen Chen

Masked (or absorbing) diffusion is actively explored as an alternative to autoregressive models for generative modeling of discrete data. However, existing work in this area has been hindered by unnecessarily complex model formulations and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Jiaxin Shi , Kehang Han , Zhe Wang , Arnaud Doucet , Michalis K. Titsias

Masked autoencoder (MAE) is a promising self-supervised pre-training technique that can improve the representation learning of a neural network without human intervention. However, applying MAE directly to volumetric medical images poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Jia-Xin Zhuang , Luyang Luo , Hao Chen

We propose a visually grounded speech model that learns new words and their visual depictions from just a few word-image example pairs. Given a set of test images and a spoken query, we ask the model which image depicts the query word.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-19 Leanne Nortje , Dan Oneata , Herman Kamper

Adapting vision-language models to remote sensing imagery presents a fundamental challenge: both the visual and linguistic distributions of satellite data lie far outside natural image pretraining corpora. Despite this, prompting remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Harshith Kethavath , Weiming Hu

We propose a margin-based loss for tuning joint vision-language models so that their gradient-based explanations are consistent with region-level annotations provided by humans for relatively smaller grounding datasets. We refer to this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Ziyan Yang , Kushal Kafle , Franck Dernoncourt , Vicente Ordonez

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

Masked Image Modeling has been one of the most popular self-supervised learning paradigms to learn representations from large-scale, unlabeled Earth Observation images. While incorporating multi-modal and multi-temporal Earth Observation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Liang Zeng , Valerio Marsocci , Wufan Zhao , Andrea Nascetti , Maarten Vergauwen

Generalization to unseen tasks is an important ability for few-shot learners to achieve better zero-/few-shot performance on diverse tasks. However, such generalization to vision-language tasks including grounding and generation tasks has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Woojeong Jin , Subhabrata Mukherjee , Yu Cheng , Yelong Shen , Weizhu Chen , Ahmed Hassan Awadallah , Damien Jose , Xiang Ren

This work explores the effectiveness of masked image modelling for learning representations of retinal OCT images. To this end, we leverage Masked Autoencoders (MAE), a simple and scalable method for self-supervised learning, to obtain a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Theodoros Pissas , Pablo Márquez-Neila , Sebastian Wolf , Martin Zinkernagel , Raphael Sznitman

Self-supervised pre-training for images without labels has recently achieved promising performance in image classification. The success of transformer-based methods, ViT and MAE, draws the community's attention to the design of backbone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Jiantao Wu , Shentong Mo

Appearance-based gaze estimation, aiming to predict accurate 3D gaze direction from a single facial image, has made promising progress in recent years. However, most methods suffer significant performance degradation in cross-domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Qida Tan , Hongyu Yang , Wenchao Du

Grounding-based vision and language models have been successfully applied to low-level vision tasks, aiming to precisely locate objects referred in captions. The effectiveness of grounding representation learning heavily relies on the scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Jingru Yi , Burak Uzkent , Oana Ignat , Zili Li , Amanmeet Garg , Xiang Yu , Linda Liu

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)…

Image and language modeling is of crucial importance for vision-language pre-training (VLP), which aims to learn multi-modal representations from large-scale paired image-text data. However, we observe that most existing VLP methods focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Sunan He , Taian Guo , Tao Dai , Ruizhi Qiao , Chen Wu , Xiujun Shu , Bo Ren

Robotic manipulation continues to be a challenge, and imitation learning (IL) enables robots to learn tasks from expert demonstrations. Current IL methods typically rely on fixed camera setups, where cameras are manually positioned in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Pengfei Yi , Yifan Han , Junyan Li , Litao Liu , Wenzhao Lian