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Object detection is an important task in remote sensing image analysis. To reduce the computational complexity of redundant information and improve the efficiency of image processing, visual saliency models have been widely applied in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Zhou Huang , Huai-Xin Chen , Tao Zhou , Yun-Zhi Yang , Chang-Yin Wang , Bi-Yuan Liu

We present a new self-supervised paradigm on point cloud sequence understanding. Inspired by the discriminative and generative self-supervised methods, we design two tasks, namely point cloud sequence based Contrastive Prediction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Xiaoxiao Sheng , Zhiqiang Shen , Gang Xiao

Multiview clustering (MVC) aims to reveal the underlying structure of multiview data by categorizing data samples into clusters. Deep learning-based methods exhibit strong feature learning capabilities on large-scale datasets. For most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Jie Chen , Hua Mao , Wai Lok Woo , Xi Peng

We introduce Contrastive Gaussian Clustering, a novel approach capable of provide segmentation masks from any viewpoint and of enabling 3D segmentation of the scene. Recent works in novel-view synthesis have shown how to model the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Myrna C. Silva , Mahtab Dahaghin , Matteo Toso , Alessio Del Bue

The high-luminosity upgrade of the LHC will come with unprecedented physics and computing challenges. One of these challenges is the accurate reconstruction of particles in events with up to 200 simultaneous proton-proton interactions. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-06-04 Shah Rukh Qasim , Kenneth Long , Jan Kieseler , Maurizio Pierini , Raheel Nawaz

Contrastive learning is a well-established paradigm in representation learning. The standard framework of contrastive learning minimizes the distance between "similar" instances and maximizes the distance between dissimilar ones in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Naghmeh Ghanooni , Barbod Pajoum , Harshit Rawal , Sophie Fellenz , Vo Nguyen Le Duy , Marius Kloft

This paper proposes an adaptive margin contrastive learning method for 3D semantic segmentation on point clouds. Most existing methods use equally penalized objectives, which ignore the per-point ambiguities and less discriminated features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Yang Chen , Yueqi Duan , Haowen Sun , Jiwen Lu , Yap-Peng Tan

Image and Point Clouds provide different information for robots. Finding the correspondences between data from different sensors is crucial for various tasks such as localization, mapping, and navigation. Learning-based descriptors have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Peng Jiang , Srikanth Saripalli

In this work, we present Multi-Level Contrastive Learning for Dense Prediction Task (MCL), an efficient self-supervised method for learning region-level feature representation for dense prediction tasks. Our method is motivated by the three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Qiushan Guo , Yizhou Yu , Yi Jiang , Jiannan Wu , Zehuan Yuan , Ping Luo

Hierarchical classification is a crucial task in many applications, where objects are organized into multiple levels of categories. However, conventional classification approaches often neglect inherent inter-class relationships at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Julius Ott , Nastassia Vysotskaya , Huawei Sun , Lorenzo Servadei , Robert Wille

Annotating large-scale point clouds is highly time-consuming and often infeasible for many complex real-world tasks. Point cloud pre-training has therefore become a promising strategy for learning discriminative representations without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Guofeng Mei , Xiaoshui Huang , Juan Liu , Jian Zhang , Qiang Wu

Multiview clustering (MVC) segregates data samples into meaningful clusters by synthesizing information across multiple views. Moreover, deep learning-based methods have demonstrated their strong feature learning capabilities in MVC…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Hao Yang , Hua Mao , Wai Lok Woo , Jie Chen , Xi Peng

Despite recent success of self-supervised based contrastive learning model for 3D point clouds representation, the adversarial robustness of such pre-trained models raised concerns. Adversarial contrastive learning (ACL) is considered an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Junxuan Huang , Yatong An , Lu cheng , Bai Chen , Junsong Yuan , Chunming Qiao

Cross-modal retrieval (CMR) has been extensively applied in various domains, such as multimedia search engines and recommendation systems. Most existing CMR methods focus on image-to-text retrieval, whereas audio-to-text retrieval, a less…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Kaiyi Luo , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Huaxiong Li , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Humans have a remarkable ability to quickly and effectively learn new concepts in a continuous manner without forgetting old knowledge. Though deep learning has made tremendous successes on various computer vision tasks, it faces challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Kun Wu , Chengxiang Yin , Jian Tang , Zhiyuan Xu , Yanzhi Wang , Dejun Yang

Co-Salient Object Detection (CoSOD) aims at detecting common salient objects within a group of relevant source images. Most of the latest works employ the attention mechanism for finding common objects. To achieve accurate CoSOD results…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Peng Zheng , Jie Qin , Shuo Wang , Tian-Zhu Xiang , Huan Xiong

In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective method to represent point clouds as sets of samples drawn from a cloud-specific probability distribution. This interpretation matches intrinsic characteristics of point clouds: the number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Michał Stypułkowski , Kacper Kania , Maciej Zamorski , Maciej Zięba , Tomasz Trzciński , Jan Chorowski

Manual annotation of large-scale point cloud dataset for varying tasks such as 3D object classification, segmentation and detection is often laborious owing to the irregular structure of point clouds. Self-supervised learning, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Mohamed Afham , Isuru Dissanayake , Dinithi Dissanayake , Amaya Dharmasiri , Kanchana Thilakarathna , Ranga Rodrigo

Point cloud data plays an essential role in robotics and self-driving applications. Yet, annotating point cloud data is time-consuming and nontrivial while they enable learning discriminative 3D representations that empower downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Srikanth Malla , Yi-Ting Chen

Contrastive learning based on instance discrimination trains model to discriminate different transformations of the anchor sample from other samples, which does not consider the semantic similarity among samples. This paper proposes a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Hao Li , Xiaopeng Zhang , Hongkai Xiong