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Worldwide Geo-localization aims to pinpoint the precise location of images taken anywhere on Earth. This task has considerable challenges due to immense variation in geographic landscapes. The image-to-image retrieval-based approaches fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Vicente Vivanco Cepeda , Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Mubarak Shah

Recently, contrastive self-supervised learning has become a key component for learning visual representations across many computer vision tasks and benchmarks. However, contrastive learning in the context of domain adaptation remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Mamatha Thota , Georgios Leontidis

Retrieving relevant multimedia content is one of the main problems in a world that is increasingly data-driven. With the proliferation of drones, high quality aerial footage is now available to a wide audience for the first time.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Fabian Deuser , Konrad Habel , Martin Werner , Norbert Oswald

Semi-supervised learning acts as an effective way to leverage massive unlabeled data. In this paper, we propose a novel training strategy, termed as Semi-supervised Contrastive Learning (SsCL), which combines the well-known contrastive loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Yuhang Zhang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Robert. C. Qiu , Jie Li , Haohang Xu , Qi Tian

Existing deep learning-based cross-view geo-localization methods primarily focus on improving the accuracy of cross-domain image matching, rather than enabling models to comprehensively capture contextual information around the target and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Suofei Zhang , Xinxin Wang , Xiaofu Wu , Quan Zhou , Haifeng Hu

Autonomous vehicles rely on map information to understand the world around them. However, the creation and maintenance of offline high-definition (HD) maps remains costly. A more scalable alternative lies in online HD map construction,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Jonas Merkert , Alexander Blumberg , Jan-Hendrik Pauls , Christoph Stiller

Semantic segmentation in autonomous driving predominantly focuses on learning from large-scale data with a closed set of known classes without considering unknown objects. Motivated by safety reasons, we address the video class agnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Mennatullah Siam , Alex Kendall , Martin Jagersand

The goal of contrastive learning based pre-training is to leverage large quantities of unlabeled data to produce a model that can be readily adapted downstream. Current approaches revolve around solving an image discrimination task: given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Chenhongyi Yang , Lichao Huang , Elliot J. Crowley

Semantic segmentation models struggle to generalize in the presence of domain shift. In this paper, we introduce contrastive learning for feature alignment in cross-domain adaptation. We assemble both in-domain contrastive pairs and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Feihu Zhang , Vladlen Koltun , Philip Torr , René Ranftl , Stephan R. Richter

Geo-tagged images are publicly available in large quantities, whereas labels such as object classes are rather scarce and expensive to collect. Meanwhile, contrastive learning has achieved tremendous success in various natural image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Gengchen Mai , Ni Lao , Yutong He , Jiaming Song , Stefano Ermon

The ground-to-satellite image matching/retrieval was initially proposed for city-scale ground camera localization. This work addresses the problem of improving camera pose accuracy by ground-to-satellite image matching after a coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Yujiao Shi , Hongdong Li , Akhil Perincherry , Ankit Vora

Contrastive learning has emerged as a powerful method in deep learning, excelling at learning effective representations through contrasting samples from different distributions. However, dimensional collapse, where embeddings converge into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Huanran Li , Manh Nguyen , Daniel Pimentel-Alarcón

A key requirement for the success of supervised deep learning is a large labeled dataset - a condition that is difficult to meet in medical image analysis. Self-supervised learning (SSL) can help in this regard by providing a strategy to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Krishna Chaitanya , Ertunc Erdil , Neerav Karani , Ender Konukoglu

Weakly supervised localization aims at finding target object regions using only image-level supervision. However, localization maps extracted from classification networks are often not accurate due to the lack of fine pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Xiaolin Zhang , Yunchao Wei , Yi Yang

Geographic information is essential for modeling tasks in fields ranging from ecology to epidemiology. However, extracting relevant location characteristics for a given task can be challenging, often requiring expensive data fusion or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Konstantin Klemmer , Esther Rolf , Caleb Robinson , Lester Mackey , Marc Rußwurm

Contrastive self-supervised learning has shown impressive results in learning visual representations from unlabeled images by enforcing invariance against different data augmentations. However, the learned representations are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Sangwoo Mo , Hyunwoo Kang , Kihyuk Sohn , Chun-Liang Li , Jinwoo Shin

Self-supervised contrastive learning is an effective approach for addressing the challenge of limited labelled data. This study builds upon the previously established two-stage patch-level, multi-label classification method for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Salma Haidar , José Oramas

Convolutional networks have marked their place over the last few years as the best performing model for various visual tasks. They are, however, most suited for supervised learning from large amounts of labeled data. Previous attempts have…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-23 Elad Hoffer , Itay Hubara , Nir Ailon

Query-based video grounding is an important yet challenging task in video understanding, which aims to localize the target segment in an untrimmed video according to a sentence query. Most previous works achieve significant progress by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Shentong Mo , Daizong Liu , Wei Hu

Image retrieval methods for place recognition learn global image descriptors that are used for fetching geo-tagged images at inference time. Recent works have suggested employing weak and self-supervision for mining hard positives and hard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Wenxuan Fang , Kai Zhang , Yoli Shavit , Wensen Feng