English
Related papers

Related papers: Masked strategies for images with small objects

200 papers

Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) have emerged as a powerful pretraining technique for vision foundation models. Despite their effectiveness, they require extensive hyperparameter tuning (masking ratio, patch size, encoder/decoder layers) when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Anthony Bisulco , Rahul Ramesh , Randall Balestriero , Pratik Chaudhari

There has been a growing interest in using deep learning models for processing long surgical videos, in order to automatically detect clinical/operational activities and extract metrics that can enable workflow efficiency tools and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Muhammad Abdullah Jamal , Omid Mohareri

Recently, self-supervised Masked Autoencoders (MAE) have attracted unprecedented attention for their impressive representation learning ability. However, the pretext task, Masked Image Modeling (MIM), reconstructs the missing local patches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Feng Liang , Yangguang Li , Diana Marculescu

Vision Transformers (ViT) become widely-adopted architectures for various vision tasks. Masked auto-encoding for feature pretraining and multi-scale hybrid convolution-transformer architectures can further unleash the potentials of ViT,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Peng Gao , Teli Ma , Hongsheng Li , Ziyi Lin , Jifeng Dai , Yu Qiao

Inspired by the masked language modeling (MLM) in natural language processing tasks, the masked image modeling (MIM) has been recognized as a strong self-supervised pre-training method in computer vision. However, the high random mask ratio…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zhaowen Li , Yousong Zhu , Zhiyang Chen , Wei Li , Chaoyang Zhao , Rui Zhao , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Transformer architectures, including nnFormer,have demonstrated promising results in volumetric medical image segmentation by being able to capture long-range spatial interactions. Although they have high performance, these models need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 R. M. Krishna Sureddi , T. Satyanarayana Murthy , Nomula Varsha Reddy , Adi Kanishka , Nalla Manvika Reddy

Large, pretrained models are commonly finetuned with imagery that is heavily augmented to mimic different conditions and scales, with the resulting models used for various tasks with imagery from a range of spatial scales. Such models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Colorado J. Reed , Ritwik Gupta , Shufan Li , Sarah Brockman , Christopher Funk , Brian Clipp , Kurt Keutzer , Salvatore Candido , Matt Uyttendaele , Trevor Darrell

Masked Autoencoding (MAE) has emerged as an effective approach for pre-training representations across multiple domains. In contrast to discrete tokens in natural languages, the input for image MAE is continuous and subject to additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Ronghang Hu , Shoubhik Debnath , Saining Xie , Xinlei Chen

Medical image segmentation remains a formidable challenge due to the label scarcity. Pre-training Vision Transformer (ViT) through masked image modeling (MIM) on large-scale unlabeled medical datasets presents a promising solution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Fenghe Tang , Qingsong Yao , Wenxin Ma , Chenxu Wu , Zihang Jiang , S. Kevin Zhou

Masked Autoencoder (MAE) is a notable method for self-supervised pretraining in visual representation learning. It operates by randomly masking image patches and reconstructing these masked patches using the unmasked ones. A key limitation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Han Guo , Ramtin Hosseini , Ruiyi Zhang , Sai Ashish Somayajula , Ranak Roy Chowdhury , Rajesh K. Gupta , Pengtao Xie

Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) achieve impressive performance in image classification tasks, yet the internal representations they learn remain less understood. This work started as an attempt to understand the strong downstream classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Anika Shrivastava , Renu Rameshan , Samar Agnihotri

Whole-slide images are central to digital pathology, yet their extreme size and scarce annotations make self-supervised learning essential. Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) with Vision Transformer backbones have recently shown strong potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Raneen Younis , Louay Hamdi , Lukas Chavez , Zahra Ahmadi

Masked Autoencoders (MAE) based on a reconstruction task have risen to be a promising paradigm for self-supervised learning (SSL) and achieve state-of-the-art performance across different benchmark datasets. However, despite its impressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Qi Zhang , Yifei Wang , Yisen Wang

The need for a large amount of labeled data in the supervised setting has led recent studies to utilize self-supervised learning to pre-train deep neural networks using unlabeled data. Many self-supervised training strategies have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Mojtaba Bahrami , Mahsa Ghorbani , Nassir Navab

Self-supervised learning methods like masked autoencoders (MAE) have shown significant promise in learning robust feature representations, particularly in image reconstruction-based pretraining task. However, their performance is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Sua Lee , Joonhun Lee , Myungjoo Kang

Masked image modelling (MIM) is a powerful self-supervised representation learning paradigm, whose potential has not been widely demonstrated in medical image analysis. In this work, we show the capacity of MIM to capture rich semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Piotr Wójcik , Hussein Naji , Adrian Simon , Reinhard Büttner , Katarzyna Bożek

We introduce a novel masked graph autoencoder (MGAE) framework to perform effective learning on graph structure data. Taking insights from self-supervised learning, we randomly mask a large proportion of edges and try to reconstruct these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Qiaoyu Tan , Ninghao Liu , Xiao Huang , Rui Chen , Soo-Hyun Choi , Xia Hu

In this work, we examine the impact of inter-patch dependencies in the decoder of masked autoencoders (MAE) on representation learning. We decompose the decoding mechanism for masked reconstruction into self-attention between mask tokens…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Letian Fu , Long Lian , Renhao Wang , Baifeng Shi , Xudong Wang , Adam Yala , Trevor Darrell , Alexei A. Efros , Ken Goldberg

Masked autoencoders (MAEs) have displayed significant potential in the classification and semantic segmentation of medical images in the last year. Due to the high similarity of human tissues, even slight changes in medical images may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Jiawei Mao , Shujian Guo , Yuanqi Chang , Xuesong Yin , Binling Nie

Inferring biological relationships from cellular phenotypes in high-content microscopy screens provides significant opportunity and challenge in biological research. Prior results have shown that deep vision models can capture biological…