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Recent advancements in self-supervised learning have reduced the gap between supervised and unsupervised representation learning. However, most self-supervised and deep clustering techniques rely heavily on data augmentation, rendering them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Mohammed Adnan , Yani A. Ioannou , Chuan-Yung Tsai , Graham W. Taylor

We present Distill CLIP (DCLIP), a fine-tuned variant of the CLIP model that enhances multimodal image-text retrieval while preserving the original model's strong zero-shot classification capabilities. CLIP models are typically constrained…

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Self-supervised monocular depth estimation (SSMDE) aims to predict the dense depth map of a monocular image, by learning depth from RGB image sequences, eliminating the need for ground-truth depth labels. Although this approach simplifies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Wonhyeok Choi , Kyumin Hwang , Wei Peng , Minwoo Choi , Sunghoon Im

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has become an appealing solution to the lack of ground truth labels, but its reconstruction loss often produces over-smoothed results across object boundaries and is incapable of handling occlusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Hyesong Choi , Hunsang Lee , Sunkyung Kim , Sunok Kim , Seungryong Kim , Kwanghoon Sohn , Dongbo Min

We present Depth Anything at Any Condition (DepthAnything-AC), a foundation monocular depth estimation (MDE) model capable of handling diverse environmental conditions. Previous foundation MDE models achieve impressive performance across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Boyuan Sun , Modi Jin , Bowen Yin , Qibin Hou

In this paper, we propose an intuitive, training-free and label-free method for intent clustering in conversational search. Current approaches to short text clustering use LLM-generated pseudo-labels to enrich text representations or to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-26 I-Fan Lin , Faegheh Hasibi , Suzan Verberne

Traditional computer vision models are trained to predict a fixed set of predefined categories. Recently, natural language has been shown to be a broader and richer source of supervision that provides finer descriptions to visual concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Ruizhe Cheng , Bichen Wu , Peizhao Zhang , Peter Vajda , Joseph E. Gonzalez

On-policy distillation offers dense, per-token supervision for training reasoning models; however, it remains unclear under which conditions this signal is beneficial and under which it is detrimental. Which teacher model should be used,…

Depth estimation from single monocular images is a key component of scene understanding and has benefited largely from deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) recently. In this article, we take advantage of the recent deep residual…

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Self-supervised monocular depth estimation serves as a key task in the development of endoscopic navigation systems. However, performance degradation persists due to uneven illumination inherent in endoscopic images, particularly in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Mingyang Ou , Haojin Li , Yifeng Zhang , Ke Niu , Zhongxi Qiu , Heng Li , Jiang Liu

Generalizable depth completion enables the acquisition of dense metric depth maps for unseen environments, offering robust perception capabilities for various downstream tasks. However, training such models typically requires large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Haotian Wang , Aoran Xiao , Xiaoqin Zhang , Meng Yang , Shijian Lu

Training robust speaker verification systems without speaker labels has long been a challenging task. Previous studies observed a large performance gap between self-supervised and fully supervised methods. In this paper, we apply a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-04 Yafeng Chen , Siqi Zheng , Hui Wang , Luyao Cheng , Qian Chen

Distilling demonstration effects into hidden-space interventions offers a lightweight alternative to full finetuning. However, existing multimodal variants are mostly evaluated on short-form tasks, where outputs end after a few tokens.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Ning Wu , Rui Liu , Xinkun Lin , Weixing Chen , Jinxi Xiang , Tao Wei , Lina Yao , Mingjie Li

We consider a collaborative learning setting where the goal of each agent is to improve their own model by leveraging the expertise of collaborators, in addition to their own training data. To facilitate the exchange of expertise among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Dongyang Fan , Celestine Mendler-Dünner , Martin Jaggi

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating high-resolution, realistic images across diverse natural distributions. However, their performance heavily relies on high-quality training data, making it challenging to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Tianyu Chen , Yasi Zhang , Zhendong Wang , Ying Nian Wu , Oscar Leong , Mingyuan Zhou

Transferring the absolute depth prediction capabilities of an estimator to a new domain is a task with significant real-world applications. This task is specifically challenging when images from the new domain are collected without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Alexandra Dana , Nadav Carmel , Amit Shomer , Ofer Manela , Tomer Peleg

Dataset distillation aims to compress information from a large-scale original dataset to a new compact dataset while striving to preserve the utmost degree of the original data informational essence. Previous studies have predominantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Muxin Zhou , Zeyuan Yin , Shitong Shao , Zhiqiang Shen

Monocular depth estimation is a crucial task in computer vision. While existing methods have shown impressive results under standard conditions, they often face challenges in reliably performing in scenarios such as low-light or rainy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Yifan Mao , Jian Liu , Xianming Liu

Deep neural networks have proven to be highly effective when large amounts of data with clean labels are available. However, their performance degrades when training data contains noisy labels, leading to poor generalization on the test…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Fahimeh Fooladgar , Minh Nguyen Nhat To , Parvin Mousavi , Purang Abolmaesumi

With the development of deep learning, medical image classification has been significantly improved. However, deep learning requires massive data with labels. While labeling the samples by human experts is expensive and time-consuming,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Jiarun Liu , Ruirui Li , Chuan Sun