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This paper studies the unsupervised embedding learning problem, which requires an effective similarity measurement between samples in low-dimensional embedding space. Motivated by the positive concentrated and negative separated properties…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Mang Ye , Xu Zhang , Pong C. Yuen , Shih-Fu Chang

Self-supervised learning is a machine learning approach that generates implicit labels by learning underlined patterns and extracting discriminative features from unlabeled data without manual labelling. Contrastive learning introduces the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Asifullah Khan , Laiba Asmatullah , Anza Malik , Shahzaib Khan , Hamna Asif

The question of representation of 3D geometry is of vital importance when it comes to leveraging the recent advances in the field of machine learning for geometry processing tasks. For common unstructured surface meshes state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Isaak Lim , Alexander Dielen , Marcel Campen , Leif Kobbelt

Finding correspondences between 3D shapes is a crucial problem in computer vision and graphics, which is for example relevant for tasks like shape interpolation, pose transfer, or texture transfer. An often neglected but essential property…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Viktoria Ehm , Paul Roetzer , Marvin Eisenberger , Maolin Gao , Florian Bernard , Daniel Cremers

Establishing dense correspondences between shapes is a crucial task in computer vision and graphics, while prior approaches depend on near-isometric assumptions and homogeneous subject types (i.e., only operate for human shapes). However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Qinfeng Xiao , Guofeng Mei , Bo Yang , Liying Zhang , Jian Zhang , Kit-lun Yick

Learning node-level representations of heterophilic graphs is crucial for various applications, including fraudster detection and protein function prediction. In such graphs, nodes share structural similarity identified by the equivalence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Asif Khan , Amos Storkey

Graph matching aims to establish correspondences between vertices of graphs such that both the node and edge attributes agree. Various learning-based methods were recently proposed for finding correspondences between image key points based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Zhenzhang Ye , Tarun Yenamandra , Florian Bernard , Daniel Cremers

Unsupervised image representations have significantly reduced the gap with supervised pretraining, notably with the recent achievements of contrastive learning methods. These contrastive methods typically work online and rely on a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Mathilde Caron , Ishan Misra , Julien Mairal , Priya Goyal , Piotr Bojanowski , Armand Joulin

Exemplar learning of visual similarities in an unsupervised manner is a problem of paramount importance to Computer Vision. In this context, however, the recent breakthrough in deep learning could not yet unfold its full potential. With…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Artsiom Sanakoyeu , Miguel A. Bautista , Björn Ommer

Traditional feature-based image stitching technologies rely heavily on feature detection quality, often failing to stitch images with few features or low resolution. The learning-based image stitching solutions are rarely studied due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Lang Nie , Chunyu Lin , Kang Liao , Shuaicheng Liu , Yao Zhao

In numerous practical applications, especially in medical image reconstruction, it is often infeasible to obtain a large ensemble of ground-truth/measurement pairs for supervised learning. Therefore, it is imperative to develop unsupervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-31 Subhadip Mukherjee , Ozan Öktem , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Contrastive learning has gained popularity and pushes state-of-the-art performance across numerous large-scale benchmarks. In contrastive learning, the contrastive loss function plays a pivotal role in discerning similarities between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Haojin Deng , Yimin Yang

Self-supervised contrastive learning offers a means of learning informative features from a pool of unlabeled data. In this paper, we delve into another useful approach -- providing a way of selecting a core-set that is entirely unlabeled.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Jeongwoo Ju , Heechul Jung , Yoonju Oh , Junmo Kim

Contrastive self-supervised learning has emerged as a promising approach to unsupervised visual representation learning. In general, these methods learn global (image-level) representations that are invariant to different views (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Pedro O. Pinheiro , Amjad Almahairi , Ryan Y. Benmalek , Florian Golemo , Aaron Courville

Learning novel classes from a very few labeled samples has attracted increasing attention in machine learning areas. Recent research on either meta-learning based or transfer-learning based paradigm demonstrates that gaining information on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Bingbin Li , Elvis Han Cui , Yanan Li , Donghui Wang , Weng Kee Wong

Recently, deep learning based 3D face reconstruction methods have shown promising results in both quality and efficiency.However, training deep neural networks typically requires a large volume of data, whereas face images with ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Yu Deng , Jiaolong Yang , Sicheng Xu , Dong Chen , Yunde Jia , Xin Tong

3D shapes captured by scanning devices are often incomplete due to occlusion. 3D shape completion methods have been explored to tackle this limitation. However, most of these methods are only trained and tested on a subset of categories,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Lintai Wu , Junhui Hou , Linqi Song , Yong Xu

Unsupervised disentanglement of content and transformation is significantly important for analyzing shape-focused scientific image datasets, given their efficacy in solving downstream image-based shape-analyses tasks. The existing relevant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Mostofa Rafid Uddin , Min Xu

Self-supervised learning has transformed 2D computer vision by enabling models trained on large, unannotated datasets to provide versatile off-the-shelf features that perform similarly to models trained with labels. However, in 3D scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Pedro Hermosilla , Christian Stippel , Leon Sick

Recently, representation learning with contrastive learning algorithms has been successfully applied to challenging unlabeled datasets. However, these methods are unable to distinguish important features from unimportant ones under simply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Toshiyuki Oshima , Kentaro Takagi , Kouta Nakata