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Learning rich visual representations using contrastive self-supervised learning has been extremely successful. However, it is still a major question whether we could use a similar approach to learn superior auditory representations. In this…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Haider Al-Tahan , Yalda Mohsenzadeh

Our ability to exploit low-cost wearable sensing modalities for critical human behaviour and activity monitoring applications in health and wellness is reliant on supervised learning regimes; here, deep learning paradigms have proven…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-20 Alireza Abedin , Farbod Motlagh , Qinfeng Shi , Seyed Hamid Rezatofighi , Damith Chinthana Ranasinghe

Context information in search sessions has proven to be useful for capturing user search intent. Existing studies explored user behavior sequences in sessions in different ways to enhance query suggestion or document ranking. However, a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Yutao Zhu , Jian-Yun Nie , Zhicheng Dou , Zhengyi Ma , Xinyu Zhang , Pan Du , Xiaochen Zuo , Hao Jiang

Wearable sensor devices, which offer the advantage of recording daily objects used by a person while performing an activity, enable the feasibility of unsupervised Human Activity Recognition (HAR). Unfortunately, previous unsupervised…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Qingxin Xia , Takuya Maekawa , Takahiro Hara

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) with different sensing modalities requires both strong generalization across diverse users and efficient personalization for individuals. However, conventional HAR models often fail to generalize when faced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Pixi Kang , Julian Moosmann , Mengxi Liu , Bo Zhou , Michele Magno , Paul Lukowicz , Sizhen Bian

Computer vision (CV) models for detection, prediction or classification tasks operate on video data-streams that are often degraded in the real world, due to deployment in real-time or on resource-constrained hardware. It is therefore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Simon Malzard , Nitish Mital , Richard Walters , Victoria Nockles , Raghuveer Rao , Celso M. De Melo

How can we teach a computer to recognize 10,000 different actions? Deep learning has evolved from supervised and unsupervised to self-supervised approaches. In this paper, we present a new contrastive learning-based framework for decision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Mindi Ruan , Xiangxu Yu , Na Zhang , Chuanbo Hu , Shuo Wang , Xin Li

Deploying human activity recognition (HAR) at home is still rare because sensor signals vary wildly across houses, people, and time, essentially requiring in-situ data collection and training. Prior approaches use cameras to generate…

Human action recognition (HAR) in videos is a fundamental research topic in computer vision. It consists mainly in understanding actions performed by humans based on a sequence of visual observations. In recent years, HAR have witnessed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Soufiane Lamghari , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau , Nicolas Saunier

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) plays a critical role in a wide range of real-world applications, and it is traditionally achieved via wearable sensing. Recently, to avoid the burden and discomfort caused by wearable devices, device-free…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Zhe Chen , Chao Cai , Tianyue Zheng , Jun Luo , Jie Xiong , Xin Wang

Detecting lane markings in road scenes poses a challenge due to their intricate nature, which is susceptible to unfavorable conditions. While lane markings have strong shape priors, their visibility is easily compromised by lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Ali Zoljodi , Sadegh Abadijou , Mina Alibeigi , Masoud Daneshtalab

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) from wearable sensors supports broad healthcare and behavior science applications. However, data heterogeneity and the scarcity of labeled data limit its real-world generalization. Recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yize Cai , Rui Feng , Anlan Yu , Baoshen Guo , Zhiqing Hong

Transformers have excelled in natural language processing and computer vision, paving their way to sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR). Previous studies show that transformers outperform their counterparts exclusively when they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Clayton Souza Leite , Henry Mauranen , Aziza Zhanabatyrova , Yu Xiao

Contrastive learning has moved the state of the art for many tasks in computer vision and information retrieval in recent years. This poster is the first work that applies supervised contrastive learning to the task of product matching in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Ralph Peeters , Christian Bizer

Unsupervised contrastive learning has achieved outstanding success, while the mechanism of contrastive loss has been less studied. In this paper, we concentrate on the understanding of the behaviours of unsupervised contrastive loss. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Feng Wang , Huaping Liu

A major bottleneck in training robust Human-Activity Recognition models (HAR) is the need for large-scale labeled sensor datasets. Because labeling large amounts of sensor data is an expensive task, unsupervised and semi-supervised learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Yash Jain , Chi Ian Tang , Chulhong Min , Fahim Kawsar , Akhil Mathur

Self-supervised contrastive learning frameworks have progressed rapidly over the last few years. In this paper, we propose a novel loss function for contrastive learning. We model our pre-training task as a binary classification problem to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Siladittya Manna , Umapada Pal , Saumik Bhattacharya

Cross view action recognition (CVAR) seeks to recognize a human action when observed from a previously unseen viewpoint. This is a challenging problem since the appearance of an action changes significantly with the viewpoint. Applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Yuexi Zhang , Dan Luo , Balaji Sundareshan , Octavia Camps , Mario Sznaier

Human Object Interaction (HOI) detection aims to localize and infer the relationships between a human and an object. Arguably, training supervised models for this task from scratch presents challenges due to the performance drop over rare…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Ting Lei , Fabian Caba , Qingchao Chen , Hailin Jin , Yuxin Peng , Yang Liu

We present a novel approach - CLAA - for API aspect detection in API reviews that utilizes transformer models trained with a supervised contrastive loss objective function. We evaluate CLAA using performance and impact analysis. For…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-15 G. M. Shahariar , Tahmid Hasan , Anindya Iqbal , Gias Uddin