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We present a self-supervised learning (SSL) method suitable for semi-global tasks such as object detection and semantic segmentation. We enforce local consistency between self-learned features, representing corresponding image locations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Ashraful Islam , Ben Lundell , Harpreet Sawhney , Sudipta Sinha , Peter Morales , Richard J. Radke

Computationally expensive training strategies make self-supervised learning (SSL) impractical for resource constrained industrial settings. Techniques like knowledge distillation (KD), dynamic computation (DC), and pruning are often used to…

To date, most existing self-supervised learning methods are designed and optimized for image classification. These pre-trained models can be sub-optimal for dense prediction tasks due to the discrepancy between image-level prediction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Xinlong Wang , Rufeng Zhang , Chunhua Shen , Tao Kong , Lei Li

In this paper, we propose a novel supervised learning method that is called Deep Embedding Kernel (DEK). DEK combines the advantages of deep learning and kernel methods in a unified framework. More specifically, DEK is a learnable kernel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-17 Linh Le , Ying Xie

In this work, we observe a counterintuitive phenomenon in self-supervised learning (SSL): longer training may impair the performance of dense prediction tasks (e.g., semantic segmentation). We refer to this phenomenon as Self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Siran Dai , Qianqian Xu , Peisong Wen , Yang Liu , Qingming Huang

Pre-training has been an important ingredient in developing strong monocular depth estimation models in recent years. For instance, self-supervised learning (SSL) is particularly effective by alleviating the need for large datasets with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Muhammad Osama Khan , Junbang Liang , Chun-Kai Wang , Shan Yang , Yu Lou

Designing learning-based no-reference (NR) video quality assessment (VQA) algorithms for camera-captured videos is cumbersome due to the requirement of a large number of human annotations of quality. In this work, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-01 Shankhanil Mitra , Saiyam Jogani , Rajiv Soundararajan

The sequential recommendation aims at predicting the next items in user behaviors, which can be solved by characterizing item relationships in sequences. Due to the data sparsity and noise issues in sequences, a new self-supervised learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Zhiwei Liu , Yongjun Chen , Jia Li , Man Luo , Philip S. Yu , Caiming Xiong

While self-supervised learning has been shown to benefit a number of vision tasks, existing techniques mainly focus on image-level manipulation, which may not generalize well to downstream tasks at patch or pixel levels. Moreover, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Cheng-Yen Hsieh , Chih-Jung Chang , Fu-En Yang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Most self-supervised learning (SSL) methods learn continuous visual representations by aligning different views of the same input, offering limited control over how information is structured across representation dimensions. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Kawtar Zaher , Ilyass Moummad , Olivier Buisson , Alexis Joly

High-dimensional, heterogeneous data with complex feature interactions pose significant challenges for traditional predictive modeling approaches. While Projection to Latent Structures (PLS) remains a popular technique, it struggles to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Farwa Abbas , Hussain Ahmad , Claudia Szabo

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods such as masked language modeling have shown massive performance gains by pretraining transformer models for a variety of natural language processing tasks. The follow-up research adapted similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Gokul Karthik Kumar , Sahal Shaji Mullappilly , Abhishek Singh Gehlot

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently shown tremendous potential to learn generic visual representations useful for many image analysis tasks. Despite their notable success, the existing SSL methods fail to generalize to downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Chetan L Srinidhi , Anne L Martel

Self-supervised visual representation learning traditionally focuses on image-level instance discrimination. Our study introduces an innovative, fine-grained dimension by integrating patch-level discrimination into these methodologies. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Ali Javidani , Mohammad Amin Sadeghi , Babak Nadjar Araabi

Recently, significant advancements in artificial intelligence have been attributed to the integration of self-supervised learning (SSL) scheme. While SSL has shown impressive achievements in natural language processing (NLP), its progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Shervin Halat , Mohammad Rahmati , Ehsan Nazerfard

Despite the impressive progress of self-supervised learning (SSL), its applicability to low-compute networks has received limited attention. Reported performance has trailed behind standard supervised pre-training by a large margin, barring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Fuwen Tan , Fatemeh Saleh , Brais Martinez

Self-supervised learning (SSL), which aims to learn meaningful prior representations from unlabeled data, has been proven effective for skeleton-based action understanding. Different from the image domain, skeleton data possesses sparser…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Jiahang Zhang , Lilang Lin , Shuai Yang , Jiaying Liu

Self-supervised learning (SSL) aims to find meaningful representations from unlabeled data by encoding semantic similarities through data augmentations. Despite its current popularity, theoretical insights about SSL are still scarce. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Maximilian Fleissner , Pascal Esser , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a powerful technique for learning from unlabeled data. By learning to remain invariant to applied data augmentations, methods such as SimCLR and MoCo can reach quality on par with supervised approaches.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Marcin Przewięźlikowski , Mateusz Pyla , Bartosz Zieliński , Bartłomiej Twardowski , Jacek Tabor , Marek Śmieja

Most recent self-supervised learning methods learn visual representation by contrasting different augmented views of images. Compared with supervised learning, more aggressive augmentations have been introduced to further improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Yingbin Bai , Erkun Yang , Zhaoqing Wang , Yuxuan Du , Bo Han , Cheng Deng , Dadong Wang , Tongliang Liu