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Learning feature correspondence is a foundational task in computer vision, holding immense importance for downstream applications such as visual odometry and 3D reconstruction. Despite recent progress in data-driven models, feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Zitong Zhan , Dasong Gao , Yun-Jou Lin , Youjie Xia , Chen Wang

We consider the problem of establishing dense correspondences within a set of related shapes of strongly varying geometry. For such input, traditional shape matching approaches often produce unsatisfactory results. We propose an ensemble…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Oliver Burghard , Alexander Berner , Michael Wand , Niloy Mitra , Hans-Peter Seidel , Reinhard Klein

Estimating correspondences between pairs of deformable shapes remains a challenging problem. Despite substantial progress, existing methods lack broad generalization capabilities and require category-specific training data. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Aleksei Zhuravlev , Zorah Lähner , Vladislav Golyanik

Semantic matching aims to establish pixel-level correspondences between instances of the same category and represents a fundamental task in computer vision. Existing approaches suffer from two limitations: (i) Geometric Ambiguity: Their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Songlin Yang , Tianyi Wei , Yushi Lan , Zeqi Xiao , Anyi Rao , Xingang Pan

While self-supervised learning has enabled effective representation learning in the absence of labels, for vision, video remains a relatively untapped source of supervision. To address this, we propose Pixel-level Correspondence (PiCo), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Yash Sharma , Yi Zhu , Chris Russell , Thomas Brox

Establishing robust and accurate correspondences is a fundamental backbone to many computer vision algorithms. While recent learning-based feature matching methods have shown promising results in providing robust correspondences under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Hugo Germain , Guillaume Bourmaud , Vincent Lepetit

We address the problem of semantic correspondence, that is, establishing a dense flow field between images depicting different instances of the same object or scene category. We propose to use images annotated with binary foreground masks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Junghyup Lee , Dohyung Kim , Wonkyung Lee , Jean Ponce , Bumsub Ham

Supervised object detection and semantic segmentation require object or even pixel level annotations. When there exist image level labels only, it is challenging for weakly supervised algorithms to achieve accurate predictions. The accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Weifeng Ge , Sibei Yang , Yizhou Yu

In this work, we propose an unsupervised method for learning dense correspondences between shapes using a recent deep functional map framework. Instead of depending on ground-truth correspondences or the computationally expensive geodesic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Mehmet Aygün , Zorah Lähner , Daniel Cremers

We propose Dense FixMatch, a simple method for online semi-supervised learning of dense and structured prediction tasks combining pseudo-labeling and consistency regularization via strong data augmentation. We enable the application of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Miquel Martí i Rabadán , Alessandro Pieropan , Hossein Azizpour , Atsuto Maki

Finding correspondences between semantically similar points across images and object instances is one of the everlasting challenges in computer vision. While large pre-trained vision models have recently been demonstrated as effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Olaf Dünkel , Thomas Wimmer , Christian Theobalt , Christian Rupprecht , Adam Kortylewski

Patch-level image representation is very important for object classification and detection, since it is robust to spatial transformation, scale variation, and cluttered background. Many existing methods usually require fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Peng Tang , Xinggang Wang , Zilong Huang , Xiang Bai , Wenyu Liu

The cross-depiction problem is that of recognising visual objects regardless of whether they are photographed, painted, drawn, etc. It is a potentially significant yet under-researched problem. Emulating the remarkable human ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-04 Hongping Cai , Qi Wu , Tadeo Corradi , Peter Hall

Progress in self-supervised learning has brought strong general image representation learning methods. Yet so far, it has mostly focused on image-level learning. In turn, tasks such as unsupervised image segmentation have not benefited from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Adrian Ziegler , Yuki M. Asano

In this work, we study different approaches to self-supervised pretraining of object detection models. We first design a general framework to learn a spatially consistent dense representation from an image, by randomly sampling and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Trung Dang , Simon Kornblith , Huy Thong Nguyen , Peter Chin , Maryam Khademi

In many real-world scenarios, obtaining large amounts of labeled data can be a daunting task. Weakly supervised learning techniques have gained significant attention in recent years as an alternative to traditional supervised learning, as…

We propose a novel biologically-plausible solution to the credit assignment problem motivated by observations in the ventral visual pathway and trained deep neural networks. In both, representations of objects in the same category become…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Shanshan Qin , Nayantara Mudur , Cengiz Pehlevan

Deep features have been proven powerful in building accurate dense semantic correspondences in various previous works. However, the multi-scale and pyramidal hierarchy of convolutional neural networks has not been well studied to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Dongyang Zhao , Ziyang Song , Zhenghao Ji , Gangming Zhao , Weifeng Ge , Yizhou Yu

Existing weakly-supervised semantic segmentation methods using image-level annotations typically rely on initial responses to locate object regions. However, such response maps generated by the classification network usually focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Yu-Ting Chang , Qiaosong Wang , Wei-Chih Hung , Robinson Piramuthu , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Weakly supervised object detection aims at learning precise object detectors, given image category labels. In recent prevailing works, this problem is generally formulated as a multiple instance learning module guided by an image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Xiaoyan Li , Meina Kan , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen