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We propose SCVRL, a novel contrastive-based framework for self-supervised learning for videos. Differently from previous contrast learning based methods that mostly focus on learning visual semantics (e.g., CVRL), SCVRL is capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Michael Dorkenwald , Fanyi Xiao , Biagio Brattoli , Joseph Tighe , Davide Modolo

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for representation learning by optimizing geometric objectives, such as invariance to augmentations, variance preservation, and feature decorrelation, without requiring…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-09 M. Hadi Sepanj , Benyamin Ghojogh , Saed Moradi , Paul Fieguth

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for learning representations without labeled data. Most SSL approaches rely on strong, well-established, handcrafted data augmentations to generate diverse views for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Berken Utku Demirel , Christian Holz

In state-of-the-art self-supervised learning (SSL) pre-training produces semantically good representations by encouraging them to be invariant under meaningful transformations prescribed from human knowledge. In fact, the property of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Rumen Dangovski , Li Jing , Charlotte Loh , Seungwook Han , Akash Srivastava , Brian Cheung , Pulkit Agrawal , Marin Soljačić

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods have achieved remarkable success in learning image representations allowing invariances in them - but therefore discarding transformation information that some computer vision tasks actually require.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Qin Wang , Alessio Quercia , Benjamin Bruns , Abigail Morrison , Hanno Scharr , Kai Krajsek

Joint-embedding self-supervised learning (SSL), the key paradigm for unsupervised representation learning from visual data, learns from invariances between semantically-related data pairs. We study the one-to-many mapping problem in SSL,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yipeng Zhang , Hafez Ghaemi , Jungyoon Lee , Shahab Bakhtiari , Eilif B. Muller , Laurent Charlin

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) has gained significant research interest in recent years due to its potential applications in real-world scenarios. However, existing VLN methods struggle with the issue of spurious associations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Liuyi Wang , Zongtao He , Ronghao Dang , Huiyi Chen , Chengju Liu , Qijun Chen

Recent successes in self-supervised learning (SSL) model spatial co-occurrences of visual features either by masking portions of an image or by aggressively cropping it. Here, we propose a new way to model spatial co-occurrences by aligning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Arthur Aubret , Céline Teulière , Jochen Triesch

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) surmises that inputs and pairwise positive relationships are enough to learn meaningful representations. Although SSL has recently reached a milestone: outperforming supervised methods in many modalities\dots…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Randall Balestriero , Yann LeCun

Incorporating heterogeneous representations from different architectures has facilitated various vision tasks, e.g., some hybrid networks combine transformers and convolutions. However, complementarity between such heterogeneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Zhong-Yu Li , Bo-Wen Yin , Yongxiang Liu , Li Liu , Ming-Ming Cheng

We present view-synthesis autoencoders (VSA) in this paper, which is a self-supervised learning framework designed for vision transformers. Different from traditional 2D pretraining methods, VSA can be pre-trained with multi-view data. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Shaoteng Liu , Xiangyu Zhang , Tao Hu , Jiaya Jia

Multi-View Representation Learning (MVRL) aims to derive a unified representation from multi-view data by leveraging shared and complementary information across views. However, when views are irregularly missing, the incomplete data can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Xin Gao , Jian Pu

Multiview recognition has been well studied in the literature and achieves decent performance in object recognition and retrieval task. However, most previous works rely on supervised learning and some impractical underlying assumptions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Chih-Hui Ho , Bo Liu , Tz-Ying Wu , Nuno Vasconcelos

While state-of-the-art contrastive Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) models produce results competitive with their supervised counterparts, they lack the ability to infer latent variables. In contrast, prescribed latent variable (LV) models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Jason Ramapuram , Dan Busbridge , Xavier Suau , Russ Webb

Learning useful representations without supervision remains a key challenge in machine learning. In this paper, we propose a simple yet powerful generative model that learns such discrete representations. Our model, the Vector…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Aaron van den Oord , Oriol Vinyals , Koray Kavukcuoglu

Self-supervised learning (SSL) holds promise in leveraging large amounts of unlabeled data. However, the success of popular SSL methods has limited on single-centric-object images like those in ImageNet and ignores the correlation among the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Zhaowen Li , Yousong Zhu , Fan Yang , Wei Li , Chaoyang Zhao , Yingying Chen , Zhiyang Chen , Jiahao Xie , Liwei Wu , Rui Zhao , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Semi-supervised learning is attracting increasing attention due to the fact that datasets of many domains lack enough labeled data. Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE), in particular, has demonstrated the benefits of semi-supervised learning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Yang Li , Quan Pan , Suhang Wang , Haiyun Peng , Tao Yang , Erik Cambria

Learning self-supervised video representation predominantly focuses on discriminating instances generated from simple data augmentation schemes. However, the learned representation often fails to generalize over unseen camera viewpoints. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Srijan Das , Michael S. Ryoo

Despite the large augmentation family, only a few cherry-picked robust augmentation policies are beneficial to self-supervised image representation learning. In this paper, we propose a directional self-supervised learning paradigm (DSSL),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Yalong Bai , Yifan Yang , Wei Zhang , Tao Mei

Modern image classification is based upon directly predicting classes via large discriminative networks, which do not directly contain information about the intuitive visual features that may constitute a classification decision. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zhili Feng , Anna Bair , J. Zico Kolter