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Self-supervised instance discrimination is an effective contrastive pretext task to learn feature representations and address limited medical image annotations. The idea is to make features of transformed versions of the same images similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Yejia Zhang , Xinrong Hu , Nishchal Sapkota , Yiyu Shi , Danny Z. Chen

Objectives. Sustainable management of plant diseases is an open challenge which has relevant economic and environmental impact. Optimal strategies rely on human expertise for field scouting under favourable conditions to assess the current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Alessandro Benfenati , Paola Causin , Roberto Oberti , Giovanni Stefanello

The increase in non-biodegradable waste is a worldwide concern. Recycling facilities play a crucial role, but their automation is hindered by the complex characteristics of waste recycling lines like clutter or object deformation. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Sara Casao , Fernando Peña , Alberto Sabater , Rosa Castillón , Darío Suárez , Eduardo Montijano , Ana C. Murillo

Unsupervised contrastive learning has gained increasing attention in the latest research and has proven to be a powerful method for learning representations from unlabeled data. However, little theoretical analysis was known for this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Zixin Wen

There has been an increasing interest in semi-supervised learning in the recent years because of the great number of datasets with a large number of unlabeled data but only a few labeled samples. Semi-supervised learning algorithms can work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Pedro H. M. Braga , Hansenclever F. Bassani

We consider the problem of training robust and accurate deep neural networks (DNNs) when subject to various proportions of noisy labels. Large-scale datasets tend to contain mislabeled samples that can be memorized by DNNs, impeding the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Yong Wen , Marcus Kalander , Chanfei Su , Lujia Pan

Network traffic classification (NTC) is vital for efficient network management, security, and performance optimization, particularly with 5G/6G technologies. Traditional methods, such as deep packet inspection (DPI) and port-based…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ehsan Eslami , Walaa Hamouda

Semi-supervised techniques have removed the barriers of large scale labelled set by exploiting unlabelled data to improve the performance of a model. In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised deep multi-task classification and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 R. M. Saad Bashir , Talha Qaiser , Shan E Ahmed Raza , Nasir M. Rajpoot

We introduce Cluster Contrast (CueCo), a novel approach to unsupervised visual representation learning that effectively combines the strengths of contrastive learning and clustering methods. Inspired by recent advancements, CueCo is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Nikolaos Giakoumoglou , Tania Stathaki

Training deep neural networks to estimate the viewpoint of objects requires large labeled training datasets. However, manually labeling viewpoints is notoriously hard, error-prone, and time-consuming. On the other hand, it is relatively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Siva Karthik Mustikovela , Varun Jampani , Shalini De Mello , Sifei Liu , Umar Iqbal , Carsten Rother , Jan Kautz

Decentralized learning has been advocated and widely deployed to make efficient use of distributed datasets, with an extensive focus on supervised learning (SL) problems. Unfortunately, the majority of real-world data are unlabeled and can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Lirui Wang , Kaiqing Zhang , Yunzhu Li , Yonglong Tian , Russ Tedrake

Recycling textile fibers is critical to reducing the environmental impact of the textile industry. Hyperspectral near-infrared (NIR) imaging combined with advanced deep learning algorithms offers a promising solution for efficient fiber…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Maria Kainz , Johannes K. Krondorfer , Malte Jaschik , Maria Jernej , Harald Ganster

Existing approaches for unsupervised metric learning focus on exploring self-supervision information within the input image itself. We observe that, when analyzing images, human eyes often compare images against each other instead of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Yang Li , Shichao Kan , Zhihai He

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) require millions of labeled training examples for image classification and object detection tasks, which restrict these models to domains where such datasets are available. In this paper, we explore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Sheng Y. Lundquist , Melanie Mitchell , Garrett T. Kenyon

Recently, self-supervised representation learning gives further development in multimedia technology. Most existing self-supervised learning methods are applicable to packaged data. However, when it comes to streamed data, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Zhiwei Lin , Yongtao Wang , Hongxiang Lin

Controlling defects in semiconductor processes is important for maintaining yield, improving production cost, and preventing time-dependent critical component failures. Electron beam-based imaging has been used as a tool to survey wafers in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Chien-Fu , Huang , Katherine Sieg , Leonid Karlinksy , Nash Flores , Rebekah Sheraw , Xin Zhang

Improving the automatic and timely recognition of construction and demolition waste composition is crucial for enhancing business returns, economic outcomes and sustainability. While deep learning models show promise in recognizing and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Adrian Langley , Matthew Lonergan , Tao Huang , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi

A central goal of unsupervised learning is to acquire representations from unlabeled data or experience that can be used for more effective learning of downstream tasks from modest amounts of labeled data. Many prior unsupervised learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Kyle Hsu , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

Contrastive learning is among the most successful methods for visual representation learning, and its performance can be further improved by jointly performing clustering on the learned representations. However, existing methods for joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Shunjie-Fabian Zheng , JaeEun Nam , Emilio Dorigatti , Bernd Bischl , Shekoofeh Azizi , Mina Rezaei

Current disposal facilities for coarse-grained waste perform manual sorting of materials with heavy machinery. Large quantities of recyclable materials are lost to coarse waste, so more effective sorting processes must be developed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Timo Lange , Ajish Babu , Philipp Meyer , Matthis Keppner , Tim Tiedemann , Martin Wittmaier , Sebastian Wolff , Thomas Vögele