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The extraction of blood vessels has recently experienced a widespread interest in medical image analysis. Automatic vessel segmentation is highly desirable to guide clinicians in computer-assisted diagnosis, therapy or surgical planning.…

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Accurate lesion segmentation in ultrasound images is essential for preventive screening and clinical diagnosis, yet remains challenging due to low contrast, blurry boundaries, and significant scale variations. Although existing deep…

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Representation Autoencoders (RAE) replace traditional VAE with pretrained vision encoders. In this paper, we systematically investigate several design choices and find three insights which simplify and improve RAE. First, we study a…

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Medical multi-modal pre-training has revealed promise in computer-aided diagnosis by leveraging large-scale unlabeled datasets. However, existing methods based on masked autoencoders mainly rely on data-level reconstruction tasks, but lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Yupei Zhang , Li Pan , Qiushi Yang , Tan Li , Zhen Chen

Highly directional mmWave/THz links require rapid beam alignment, yet exhaustive codebook sweeps incur prohibitive training overhead. This letter proposes a sensing-assisted adaptive probing policy that maps multimodal sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Abidemi Orimogunje , Vukan Ninkovic , Ognjen Kundacina , Hyunwoo Park , Sunwoo Kim , Dejan Vukobratovic , Evariste Twahirwa , Gaspard Gashema

Existing LiDAR-based 3D object detection methods for autonomous driving scenarios mainly adopt the training-from-scratch paradigm. Unfortunately, this paradigm heavily relies on large-scale labeled data, whose collection can be expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Zhiwei Lin , Yongtao Wang , Shengxiang Qi , Nan Dong , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Masked Autoencoders (MAE) have demonstrated promising performance in self-supervised learning for both 2D and 3D computer vision. Nevertheless, existing MAE-based methods still have certain drawbacks. Firstly, the functional decoupling…

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Recently, self-supervised Masked Autoencoders (MAE) have attracted unprecedented attention for their impressive representation learning ability. However, the pretext task, Masked Image Modeling (MIM), reconstructs the missing local patches,…

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End-to-End (E2E) unrolled optimization frameworks show promise for Magnetic Resonance (MR) image recovery, but suffer from high memory usage during training. In addition, these deterministic approaches do not offer opportunities for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-09 Jyothi Rikhab Chand , Mathews Jacob

Multimodal time series forecasting is foundational in various fields, such as utilizing satellite imagery and numerical data for predicting typhoons in climate science. However, existing multimodal approaches primarily focus on utilizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Haobo Li , Eunseo Jung , Zixin Chen , Zhaowei Wang , Yueya Wang , Huamin Qu , Alexis Kai Hon Lau

Many different methods to train deep generative models have been introduced in the past. In this paper, we propose to extend the variational auto-encoder (VAE) framework with a new type of prior which we call "Variational Mixture of…

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Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) offer powerful cross-modality capabilities but introduce new safety risks not observed in single-task models. Despite their emergence, existing safety benchmarks remain fragmented across tasks and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Segyu Lee , Boryeong Cho , Hojung Jung , Seokhyun An , Juhyeong Kim , Jaehyun Kwak , Yongjin Yang , Sangwon Jang , Youngrok Park , Wonjun Chang , Se-Young Yun

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

The well-established modular autonomous driving system is decoupled into different standalone tasks, e.g. perception, prediction and planning, suffering from information loss and error accumulation across modules. In contrast, end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Wenchao Sun , Xuewu Lin , Yining Shi , Chuang Zhang , Haoran Wu , Sifa Zheng

A large-scale labeled dataset is a key factor for the success of supervised deep learning in computer vision. However, a limited number of annotated data is very common, especially in ophthalmic image analysis, since manual annotation is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Zhiyuan Cai , Li Lin , Huaqing He , Xiaoying Tang

Current end-to-end autonomous driving methods typically learn only from expert planning data collected from a single ego vehicle, severely limiting the diversity of learnable driving policies and scenarios. However, a critical yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Lin Liu , Caiyan Jia , Ziying Song , Hongyu Pan , Bencheng Liao , Wenchao Sun , Yongchang Zhang , Lei Yang , Yandan Luo

Recent advances in omni-modal large language models have enabled remarkable progress in joint vision-audio understanding. However, prevailing architectures rely on modality-specific encoders with a \emph{video-coarse, audio-dense} design --…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Detao Bai , Shimin Yao , Weixuan Chen , Chengen Lai , Yuanming Li , Zhiheng Ma , Xihan Wei

While embeddings from multimodal large language models (LLMs) excel as general-purpose representations, their application to dynamic modalities like audio and video remains underexplored. We introduce WAVE (\textbf{u}nified \&…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Changli Tang , Qinfan Xiao , Ke Mei , Tianyi Wang , Fengyun Rao , Chao Zhang

While Mixture of Experts (MoE) models achieve remarkable efficiency by activating only subsets of parameters, they suffer from high memory access costs during inference. Memory-layer architectures offer an appealing alternative with very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Zihao Huang , Yu Bao , Qiyang Min , Siyan Chen , Ran Guo , Hongzhi Huang , Defa Zhu , Yutao Zeng , Banggu Wu , Xun Zhou , Siyuan Qiao

We introduce MHVAE, a deep hierarchical variational auto-encoder (VAE) that synthesizes missing images from various modalities. Extending multi-modal VAEs with a hierarchical latent structure, we introduce a probabilistic formulation for…