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Learning to reliably perceive and understand the scene is an integral enabler for robots to operate in the real-world. This problem is inherently challenging due to the multitude of object types as well as appearance changes caused by…

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We introduce the first differentiable approximation of range-partition entropy, a complexity measure from computational geometry that directly bounds algorithmic runtime. Unlike architectural modifications, our method is a complementary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Ibne Farabi Shihab , Sanjeda Akter , Anuj Sharma

In this work, we treat the problem of multi-task submodular optimization from the perspective of local distributional robustness within the neighborhood of a reference distribution which assigns an importance score to each task. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Ege C. Kaya , Abolfazl Hashemi

Unpaired Multi-Modal Learning (UMML) which leverages unpaired multi-modal data to boost model performance on each individual modality has attracted a lot of research interests in medical image analysis. However, existing UMML methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Lei Zhu , Yanyu Xu , Huazhu Fu , Xinxing Xu , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Yong Liu

Multi-modal word semantics aims to enhance embeddings with perceptual input, assuming that human meaning representation is grounded in sensory experience. Most research focuses on evaluation involving direct visual input, however, visual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Anita L. Verő , Ann Copestake

Multi-modal learning aims to enhance performance by unifying models from various modalities but often faces the "modality imbalance" problem in real data, leading to a bias towards dominant modalities and neglecting others, thereby limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Yang Yang , Hongpeng Pan , Qing-Yuan Jiang , Yi Xu , Jinghui Tang

We learn about the world from a diverse range of sensory information. Automated systems lack this ability as investigation has centred on processing information presented in a single form. Adapting architectures to learn from multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Jason Armitage , Shramana Thakur , Rishi Tripathi , Jens Lehmann , Maria Maleshkova

We present a variational multi-label segmentation algorithm based on a robust Huber loss for both the data and the regularizer, minimized within a convex optimization framework. We introduce a novel constraint on the common areas, to bias…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Byung-Woo Hong , Ja-Keoung Koo , Stefano Soatto

This paper investigates, from information theoretic grounds, a learning problem based on the principle that any regularity in a given dataset can be exploited to extract compact features from data, i.e., using fewer bits than needed to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-14 Matías Vera , Leonardo Rey Vega , Pablo Piantanida

Accurate segmentation of white matter hyperintensities (WMH) is crucial for clinical decision-making, particularly in the context of multiple sclerosis. However, domain shifts, such as variations in MRI machine types or acquisition…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-18 Franco Matzkin , Agostina Larrazabal , Diego H Milone , Jose Dolz , Enzo Ferrante

Multimodal representation learning aims to construct a shared embedding space in which heterogeneous modalities are semantically aligned. Despite strong empirical results, InfoNCE-based objectives introduce inherent conflicts that yield…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Wenzhe Yin , Pan Zhou , Zehao Xiao , Jie Liu , Shujian Yu , Jan-Jakob Sonke , Efstratios Gavves

Utilizing multi-modal data enhances scene understanding by providing complementary semantic and geometric information. Existing methods fuse features or distill knowledge from multiple modalities into a unified representation, improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Jialei Chen , Xu Zheng , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool , Hiroshi Murase , Daisuke Deguchi

Multimodal learning (MML) aims to jointly exploit the common priors of different modalities to compensate for their inherent limitations. However, existing MML methods often optimize a uniform objective for different modalities, leading to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Yunfeng Fan , Wenchao Xu , Haozhao Wang , Junxiao Wang , Song Guo

Training multimodal networks requires a vast amount of data due to their larger parameter space compared to unimodal networks. Active learning is a widely used technique for reducing data annotation costs by selecting only those samples…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Meng Shen , Yizheng Huang , Jianxiong Yin , Heqing Zou , Deepu Rajan , Simon See

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation (SS-SS) aims to mitigate the heavy annotation burden of dense pixel labeling by leveraging abundant unlabeled images alongside a small labeled set. While current consistency regularization methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Haruya Ishikawa , Yoshimitsu Aoki

Fusing an arbitrary number of modalities is vital for achieving robust multi-modal fusion of semantic segmentation yet remains less explored to date. Recent endeavors regard RGB modality as the center and the others as the auxiliary,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Xu Zheng , Yuanhuiyi Lyu , Jiazhou Zhou , Lin Wang

Incremental learning suffers from two challenging problems; forgetting of old knowledge and intransigence on learning new knowledge. Prediction by the model incrementally learned with a subset of the dataset are thus uncertain and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Dahyun Kim , Jihwan Bae , Yeonsik Jo , Jonghyun Choi

Classification is a fundamental task in machine learning. While conventional methods-such as binary, multiclass, and multi-label classification-are effective for simpler problems, they may not adequately address the complexities of some…

Current vision-language models have been explored for multi-modal embedding tasks like information retrieval. However, they face significant challenges in real-world queries and targets involving diverse modality combinations, as existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Jiajun Qin , Yuan Pu , Zhuolun He , Seunggeun Kim , David Z. Pan , Bei Yu

Many vision-related tasks benefit from reasoning over multiple modalities to leverage complementary views of data in an attempt to learn robust embedding spaces. Most deep learning-based methods rely on a late fusion technique whereby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Austin Reiter , Menglin Jia , Pu Yang , Ser-Nam Lim