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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

We show how bidirectional transformers trained for masked token prediction can be applied to neural image compression to achieve state-of-the-art results. Such models were previously used for image generation by progressivly sampling groups…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Fabian Mentzer , Eirikur Agustsson , Michael Tschannen

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) achieves outstanding success in self-supervised representation learning. Unfortunately, MIM models typically have huge computational burden and slow learning process, which is an inevitable obstacle for their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Haoqing Wang , Yehui Tang , Yunhe Wang , Jianyuan Guo , Zhi-Hong Deng , Kai Han

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) has achieved promising progress with the advent of Masked Autoencoders (MAE) and BEiT. However, subsequent works have complicated the framework with new auxiliary tasks or extra pre-trained models, inevitably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Yuan Liu , Songyang Zhang , Jiacheng Chen , Kai Chen , Dahua Lin

Text-to-image diffusion models (DMs) develop at an unprecedented pace, supported by thorough theoretical exploration and empirical analysis. Unfortunately, the discrepancy between DMs and autoregressive models (ARMs) complicates the path…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Shitong Shao , Zikai Zhou , Tian Ye , Lichen Bai , Zhiqiang Xu , Zeke Xie

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) has emerged as a powerful self-supervised learning paradigm for visual representation learning, enabling models to acquire rich visual representations by predicting masked portions of images from their visible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Jinhong Lin , Cheng-En Wu , Huanran Li , Jifan Zhang , Yu Hen Hu , Pedro Morgado

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) is a technique in self-supervised learning that focuses on acquiring detailed visual representations from unlabeled images by estimating the missing pixels in randomly masked sections. It has proven to be a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Khanh-Binh Nguyen , Chae Jung Park

Several recent works have directly extended the image masked autoencoder (MAE) with random masking into video domain, achieving promising results. However, unlike images, both spatial and temporal information are important for video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 David Fan , Jue Wang , Shuai Liao , Yi Zhu , Vimal Bhat , Hector Santos-Villalobos , Rohith MV , Xinyu Li

The acquisition of annotated datasets with paired images and segmentation masks is a critical challenge in domains such as medical imaging, remote sensing, and computer vision. Manual annotation demands significant resources, faces ethical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Rupak Bose , Chinedu Innocent Nwoye , Aditya Bhat , Nicolas Padoy

Few-shot image generation aims to generate images of high quality and great diversity with limited data. However, it is difficult for modern GANs to avoid overfitting when trained on only a few images. The discriminator can easily remember…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jingyuan Zhu , Huimin Ma , Jiansheng Chen , Jian Yuan

Recent advances in diffusion models (DMs) have achieved exceptional visual quality in image editing tasks. However, the global denoising dynamics of DMs inherently conflate local editing targets with the full-image context, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Wei Chow , Linfeng Li , Lingdong Kong , Zefeng Li , Qi Xu , Hang Song , Tian Ye , Xian Wang , Jinbin Bai , Shilin Xu , Xiangtai Li , Junting Pan , Shaoteng Liu , Ran Zhou , Tianshu Yang , Songhua Liu

Dense pixel-specific representation learning at scale has been bottlenecked due to the unavailability of large-scale multi-view datasets. Current methods for building effective pretraining datasets heavily rely on annotated 3D meshes, point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Kalyani Marathe , Mahtab Bigverdi , Nishat Khan , Tuhin Kundu , Patrick Howe , Sharan Ranjit S , Anand Bhattad , Aniruddha Kembhavi , Linda G. Shapiro , Ranjay Krishna

With well-selected data, homogeneous diffusion inpainting can reconstruct images from sparse data with high quality. While 4K colour images of size 3840 x 2160 can already be inpainted in real time, optimising the known data for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Karl Schrader , Pascal Peter , Niklas Kämper , Joachim Weickert

Image and multimodal machine learning tasks are very challenging to solve in the case of poorly distributed data. In particular, data availability and privacy restrictions exacerbate these hurdles in the medical domain. The state of the art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Rafael Elberg , Denis Parra , Mircea Petrache

A natural desideratum for generative models is self-correction--detecting and revising low-quality tokens at inference. While Masked Diffusion Models (MDMs) have emerged as a promising approach for generative modeling in discrete spaces,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jaeyeon Kim , Seunggeun Kim , Taekyun Lee , David Z. Pan , Hyeji Kim , Sham Kakade , Sitan Chen

Recent progress in large models has led to significant advances in unified multimodal generation and understanding. However, the development of models that unify motion-language generation and understanding remains largely underexplored.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Zekun Li , Sizhe An , Chengcheng Tang , Chuan Guo , Ivan Shugurov , Linguang Zhang , Amy Zhao , Srinath Sridhar , Lingling Tao , Abhay Mittal

We investigate methods to reduce inference time and memory footprint in stable diffusion models by introducing lightweight decoders for both image and video synthesis. Traditional latent diffusion pipelines rely on large Variational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Alexey Buzovkin , Evgeny Shilov

In this work, we survey recent studies on masked image modeling (MIM), an approach that emerged as a powerful self-supervised learning technique in computer vision. The MIM task involves masking some information, e.g. pixels, patches, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Vlad Hondru , Florinel Alin Croitoru , Shervin Minaee , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Nicu Sebe

Learning descriptive spatio-temporal object models from data is paramount for the task of semi-supervised video object segmentation. Most existing approaches mainly rely on models that estimate the segmentation mask based on a reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Sergi Caelles , Albert Pumarola , Francesc Moreno-Noguer , Alberto Sanfeliu , Luc Van Gool

Motivated by discrete diffusion's success in language-vision modeling, we explore its potential for multi-view generation, a task dominated by continuous approaches. We introduce ViewMask-1-to-3, formulating multi-view synthesis as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Ruishu Zhu , Zhihao Huang , Jiacheng Sun , Ping Luo , Hongyuan Zhang , Xuelong Li