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Self-supervised learning holds promise in leveraging large amounts of unlabeled data, however much of its progress has thus far been limited to highly curated pre-training data such as ImageNet. We explore the effects of contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Yonglong Tian , Olivier J. Henaff , Aaron van den Oord

Images captured from the real world are often affected by different types of noise, which can significantly impact the performance of Computer Vision systems and the quality of visual data. This study presents a novel approach for defect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Mohsen Hami , Mahdi JameBozorg

In our previous works, we proposed a machine learning framework named \texttt{USmorph} for efficiently classifying galaxy morphology. In this study, we propose a self-supervised method called contrastive learning to upgrade the unsupervised…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-19 Shiwei Zhu , Guanwen Fang , Chichun Zhou , Jie Song , Zesen Lin , Yao Dai , Xu Kong

Anomaly detection in images plays a significant role for many applications across all industries, such as disease diagnosis in healthcare or quality assurance in manufacturing. Manual inspection of images, when extended over a monotonously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Vincent Wilmet , Sauraj Verma , Tabea Redl , Håkon Sandaker , Zhenning Li

Auto-Encoder (AE)-based deep subspace clustering (DSC) methods have achieved impressive performance due to the powerful representation extracted using deep neural networks while prioritizing categorical separability. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Juncheng Lv , Zhao Kang , Xiao Lu , Zenglin Xu

Unsupervised pre-training was a critical technique for training deep neural networks years ago. With sufficient labeled data and modern training techniques, it is possible to train very deep neural networks from scratch in a purely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Jianfeng Dong , Xiao-Jiao Mao , Chunhua Shen , Yu-Bin Yang

Deep convolutional neural networks have been widely used in scene classification of remotely sensed images. In this work, we propose a robust learning method for the task that is secure against partially incorrect categorization of images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Jinyang Wang , Tao Wang , Min Gan , George Hadjichristofi

Hashing methods have been widely used for applications of large-scale image retrieval and classification. Non-deep hashing methods using handcrafted features have been significantly outperformed by deep hashing methods due to their better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Jingkuan Song , Tao He , Hangbo Fan , Lianli Gao

This paper shows how an uncertainty-aware, deep neural network can be trained to detect, recognise and localise objects in 2D RGB images, in applications lacking annotated train-ng datasets. We propose a self-supervising teacher-student…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Irum Mehboob , Li Sun , Alireza Astegarpanah , Rustam Stolkin

Wastewater-based genomic surveillance has emerged as a powerful tool for population-level viral monitoring, offering comprehensive insights into circulating viral variants across entire communities. However, this approach faces significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Adele Chinda , Richmond Azumah , Hemanth Demakethepalli Venkateswara

The two-step galaxy morphology classification framework {\tt USmorph} successfully combines unsupervised machine learning (UML) with supervised machine learning (SML) methods. To enhance the UML step, we employed a dual-encoder architecture…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-22 Xiaolei Yin , Guanwen Fang , Shiying Lu , Zesen Lin , Yao Dai , Chichun Zhou

This work presents a novel self-supervised representation learning method to learn efficient representations without labels on images from a 3DPM sensor (3-Dimensional Particle Measurement; estimates the particle size distribution of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Prakash Chandra Chhipa , Richa Upadhyay , Rajkumar Saini , Lars Lindqvist , Richard Nordenskjold , Seiichi Uchida , Marcus Liwicki

Machine-vision-based defect classification techniques have been widely adopted for automatic quality inspection in manufacturing processes. This article describes a general framework for classifying defects from high volume data batches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Wenbo Sun , Raed Al Kontar , Judy Jin , Tzyy-Shuh Chang

We present DCSVM, an efficient algorithm for multi-class classification using Support Vector Machines. DCSVM is a divide and conquer algorithm which relies on data sparsity in high dimensional space and performs a smart partitioning of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Duleep Rathgamage Don , Ionut E. Iacob

Multi-view clustering (MvC) utilizes information from multiple views to uncover the underlying structures of data. Despite significant advancements in MvC, mitigating the impact of missing samples in specific views on the integration of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Zhenglai Li , Yuqi Shi , Xiao He , Chang Tang

The success of current deep saliency detection methods heavily depends on the availability of large-scale supervision in the form of per-pixel labeling. Such supervision, while labor-intensive and not always possible, tends to hinder the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Jing Zhang , Tong Zhang , Yuchao Dai , Mehrtash Harandi , Richard Hartley

Modern deep neural networks can easily overfit to biased training data containing corrupted labels or class imbalance. Sample re-weighting methods are popularly used to alleviate this data bias issue. Most current methods, however, require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Jun Shu , Xiang Yuan , Deyu Meng , Zongben Xu

In this paper, we study the problem of learning image classification models with label noise. Existing approaches depending on human supervision are generally not scalable as manually identifying correct or incorrect labels is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Kuang-Huei Lee , Xiaodong He , Lei Zhang , Linjun Yang

In industrial quality control, to visually recognize unwanted items within a moving heterogeneous stream, human operators are often still indispensable. Waste-sorting stands as a significant example, where operators on multiple conveyor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Andrea Marelli , Alberto Foresti , Leonardo Pesce , Giacomo Boracchi , Mario Grosso

The advancement of visual tracking has continuously been brought by deep learning models. Typically, supervised learning is employed to train these models with expensive labeled data. In order to reduce the workload of manual annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Ning Wang , Wengang Zhou , Yibing Song , Chao Ma , Wei Liu , Houqiang Li