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25 Citations
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16 September 2022

SAR-optical images from different sensors can provide consistent information for scene classification. However, the utilization of unlabeled SAR-optical images in deep learning-based remote sensing image interpretation remains an open issue. In recen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Artificial Intelligence Algorithm for the Analysis of Remote Sensing Images)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,827 Views
18 Pages

Preserving long-tail, minority information during model compression has been linked to algorithmic fairness considerations. However, this assumes that large models capture long-tail information and smaller ones do not, which raises two questions. One...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of AAAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence with Biased or Scarce Data (AIBSD))
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,336 Views
20 Pages

26 June 2024

Land-use and land-cover (LULC) change detection (CD) is a pivotal research area in remote sensing applications, posing a significant challenge due to variations in illumination, radiation, and image noise between bi-temporal images. Currently, deep l...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applying Earth Observation Data for Urban Land-Use Change Mapping)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,983 Views
28 Pages

8 December 2023

The detection of building changes (hereafter ‘building change detection’, BCD) is a critical issue in remote sensing analysis. Accurate BCD faces challenges, such as complex scenes, radiometric differences between bi-temporal images, and...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
  • Review
  • Open Access

11 November 2026

Research in visual intelligence has shifted from task-specific convolutional networks trained on curated labels toward large-scale pretrained architectures that transfer across image, video, and language tasks with minimal fine-tuning. Existing surve...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,429 Views
14 Pages

A Visual Encoding Model Based on Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning for Human Brain Activity along the Ventral Visual Stream

  • Jingwei Li,
  • Chi Zhang,
  • Linyuan Wang,
  • Penghui Ding and ,
  • Lulu Hu,
  • Bin Yan and
  • Li Tong
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Visual encoding models are important computational models for understanding how information is processed along the visual stream. Many improved visual encoding models have been developed from the perspective of the model architecture and the learning...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Neuroscience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,346 Views
20 Pages

Multi-Encoding Contrastive Learning for Dual-Stream Self-Supervised 3D Dental Segmentation Network

  • Tian Ma,
  • Xiaoyuan Wei,
  • Jiechen Zhai,
  • Ziang Zhang and ,
  • Yawen Li and
  • Yuancheng Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

To address the limitation regarding the supervised dataset scale in the semantic recognition of newly distributed types such as wisdom teeth and missing teeth, the multi-encoding contrastive learning for dual-stream self-supervised 3D dental segmenta...

(This article belongs to the Topic Smart Healthcare: Technologies and Applications, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,305 Views
15 Pages

Motif occupancy identification is a binary classification task predicting the binding of DNA motif instances to transcription factors, for which several sequence-based methods have been proposed. However, through direct training, these end-to-end met...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Informatics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,802 Views
15 Pages

Spectrum Sensing Algorithm Based on Self-Supervised Contrast Learning

  • Xinyu Li,
  • Zhijin Zhao,
  • Yupei Zhang,
  • Shilian Zheng and
  • Shaogang Dai

The traditional spectrum sensing algorithm based on deep learning requires a large number of labeled samples for model training, but it is difficult to obtain them in the actual sensing scene. This paper applies self-supervised contrast learning in o...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,070 Views
21 Pages

Self-FI: Self-Supervised Learning for Disease Diagnosis in Fundus Images

  • Toan Duc Nguyen,
  • Duc-Tai Le,
  • Junghyun Bum,
  • Seongho Kim and ,
  • Su Jeong Song and
  • Hyunseung Choo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Self-supervised learning has been successful in computer vision, and its application to medical imaging has shown great promise. This study proposes a novel self-supervised learning method for medical image classification, specifically targeting ultr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biomedical Imaging and Analysis of the Eye)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,103 Views
14 Pages

8 September 2023

Unsupervised anomalous sound detection, especially self-supervised methods, plays a crucial role in differentiating unknown abnormal sounds of machines from normal sounds. Self-supervised learning can be divided into two main categories: Generative a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning and Deep Learning Applications for Anomaly and Fault Detection)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,028 Views
40 Pages

13 August 2024

In recent years, contrastive learning has been a highly favored method for self-supervised representation learning, which significantly improves the unsupervised training of deep image models. Self-supervised learning is a subset of unsupervised lear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
333 Views
21 Pages

28 September 2026

Supervised object detection models rely on large training datasets to achieve good performance. However, data labeling is often an expensive and time-consuming task. To mitigate this challenge, self-supervised methods have been utilized to learn repr...

(This article belongs to the Collection Automation in Intelligent Transportation Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
419 Views
25 Pages

23 September 2026

Self-supervised learning provides an effective way to reduce the dependence on manual annotations in remote sensing scene classification. However, existing self-supervised methods often emphasize either global semantic invariance or local structural...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning-Based Analysis of High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images: Registration, Fusion, and Change Detection)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,115 Views
19 Pages

29 May 2024

We present a new method of self-supervised learning and knowledge distillation based on multi-views and multi-representations (MV–MR). MV–MR is based on the maximization of dependence between learnable embeddings from augmented and non-au...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theory for Interpretable Machine Learning)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,274 Views
18 Pages

HAVANA: Hard Negative Sample-Aware Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning for Airborne Laser Scanning Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation

  • Yunsheng Zhang,
  • Jianguo Yao,
  • Ruixiang Zhang,
  • Xuying Wang and ,
  • Siyang Chen and
  • Han Fu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 January 2024

Deep Neural Network (DNN)-based point cloud semantic segmentation has presented significant breakthrough using large-scale labeled aerial laser point cloud datasets. However, annotating such large-scaled point clouds is time-consuming. Self-Supervise...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geospatial Foundation Model in Urban Environments: Challenges and New Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,216 Views
13 Pages

1 February 2023

This paper introduces a novel approach to leveraging features learned from both supervised and self-supervised paradigms, to improve image classification tasks, specifically for vehicle classification. Two state-of-the-art self-supervised learning me...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Eng 2022)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,825 Views
17 Pages

27 August 2025

Early and accurate detection of plant diseases is essential for ensuring food security and maintaining sustainable agricultural productivity. However, most deep learning models for plant disease classification rely heavily on large-scale annotated da...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning in Video and Image Processing: Challenges, Solutions, and Future Directions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,439 Views
18 Pages

Radar Intra–Pulse Signal Modulation Classification with Contrastive Learning

  • Jingjing Cai,
  • Fengming Gan,
  • Xianghai Cao,
  • Wei Liu and
  • Peng Li

12 November 2022

The existing research on deep learning for radar signal intra–pulse modulation classification is mainly based on supervised leaning techniques, which performance mainly relies on a large number of labeled samples. To overcome this limitation, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,751 Views
18 Pages

17 November 2022

Clouds have an enormous influence on the hydrological cycle, Earth’s radiation budget, and climate changes. Accurate automatic recognition of cloud shape based on ground-based cloud images is beneficial to analyze the atmospheric motion state a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Meteorological Remote Sensing Algorithm and Applications for Clouds and Precipitation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,894 Views
11 Pages

Contrastive Learning with Feature-Level Augmentation for Wireless Signal Representation

  • Shiyuan Mu,
  • Shuai Chen,
  • Yong Zu,
  • Zhixi Feng and
  • Shuyuan Yang

The application of self-supervised learning (SSL) is increasingly imperative for advancing wireless communication technologies, particularly in scenarios with limited labeled data. Traditional data-augmentation-based SSL methods have struggled to acc...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,822 Views
10 Pages

Self-Supervised Pre-Training with Bridge Neural Network for SAR-Optical Matching

  • Lixin Qian,
  • Xiaochun Liu,
  • Meiyu Huang and
  • Xueshuang Xiang

8 June 2022

Due to the vast geometric and radiometric differences between SAR and optical images, SAR-optical image matching remains an intractable challenge. Despite the fact that the deep learning-based matching model has achieved great success, SAR feature em...

(This article belongs to the Topic Computational Intelligence in Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,292 Views
41 Pages

RhythmX™: An Interpretable Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning Framework for Heartbeat Classification

  • Abdullah,
  • Zulaikha Fatima,
  • Haris Ali Safder,
  • Mubasher Manzoor and ,
  • Carlos Guzmán Sánchez-Mejorada,
  • Miguel Jesús Torres Ruiz and
  • Rolando Quintero Téllez
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Automated electrocardiogram (ECG) arrhythmia classification remains challenging due to signal noise, inter-patient variability, and limited annotated data, which constrain the generalization of supervised learning approaches. This study presents a se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,180 Views
23 Pages

A Self-Supervised Contrastive Framework for Specific Emitter Identification with Limited Labeled Data

  • Jiaqi Wang,
  • Lishu Guo,
  • Pengfei Liu,
  • Peng Shang and ,
  • Xiaochun Lu and
  • Hang Zhao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

1 August 2025

Specific Emitter Identification (SEI) is a specialized technique for identifying different emitters by analyzing the unique characteristics embedded in received signals, known as Radio Frequency Fingerprints (RFFs), and SEI plays a crucial role in ci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,488 Views
29 Pages

Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) poses a significant global health challenge, necessitating improved diagnostic tools. This study investigated the use of self-supervised multi-task learning for automated echocardiographic analysis, aiming to predict ech...

(This article belongs to the Section Medical Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,544 Views
21 Pages

Renal Pathological Image Classification Based on Contrastive and Transfer Learning

  • Xinkai Liu,
  • Xin Zhu,
  • Xingjian Tian,
  • Tsuyoshi Iwasaki and ,
  • Atsuya Sato and
  • Junichiro James Kazama
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Following recent advancements in medical laboratory technology, the analysis of high-resolution renal pathological images has become increasingly important in the diagnosis and prognosis prediction of chronic nephritis. In particular, deep learning h...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning Technology for Biomedical Signals and Images Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
624 Views
29 Pages

Multimodal Method for Pest Recognition Using Field Images and Environmental Data in Smart Agriculture

  • Shanhe Xiao,
  • Yicheng Chen,
  • Mingkun Lu,
  • Jiayue Wang and ,
  • Rongxuan Guo,
  • Xu Xu and
  • Yihong Song
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Accurate pest recognition is an important foundation for intelligent plant protection, precision pesticide application, and sustainable agricultural management. However, in real field environments, pest targets are often small in scale, severely occl...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,107 Views
15 Pages

27 November 2025

Accurate classification of focal liver lesions (FLLs) is crucial for reliable clinical decision-making. Inspired by contrastive vision-language models such as CLIP and MedCLIP, we propose Liver-VLM for FLLs classification, trained on a dedicated mult...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning and Data Analysis: Bridging Theory and Real-World Solutions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
515 Views
30 Pages

24 June 2026

Rotating machinery is a key component in modern industry, and its operating condition directly affects equipment safety and production reliability. However, discrepancies among different machines cause source–target distribution shifts, while f...

(This article belongs to the Section Algorithms and Mathematical Models for Computer-Assisted Diagnostic Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,508 Views
13 Pages

Automated Detection of Canine Babesia Parasite in Blood Smear Images Using Deep Learning and Contrastive Learning Techniques

  • Dilip Kumar Baruah,
  • Kuntala Boruah,
  • Nagendra Nath Barman,
  • Abhijit Deka and ,
  • Arpita Bharali and
  • Lukumoni Buragohain
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

This research introduces a novel method that integrates both unsupervised and supervised learning, leveraging SimCLR (Simple Framework for Contrastive Learning of Visual Representations) for self-supervised learning along with different pre-trained m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,036 Views
22 Pages

14 March 2026

Self-supervised contrastive learning has become an effective approach for visual representation learning when large-scale annotation is impractical. In this study, we evaluate three widely used methods—SimCLR, MoCo v2, and BYOL—for large-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning for Object Detection and Scene Description in Images and Videos)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,859 Views
25 Pages

Self-Supervised Foundation Model for Template Matching

  • Anton Hristov,
  • Dimo Dimov and
  • Maria Nisheva-Pavlova

Finding a template location in a query image is a fundamental problem in many computer vision applications, such as localization of known objects, image registration, image matching, and object tracking. Currently available methods fail when insuffic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Perception and Detection of Intelligent Vision)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,798 Views
24 Pages

Interpretable Disorder Signatures: Probing Neural Latent Spaces for Schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s, and Autism Stratification

  • Zafar Iqbal,
  • Md. Mahfuzur Rahman,
  • Qasim Zia,
  • Pavel Popov and ,
  • Zening Fu,
  • Vince D. Calhoun and
  • Sergey Plis
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

1 September 2025

Objective: This study aims to develop and validate an interpretable deep learning framework that leverages self-supervised time reversal (TR) pretraining to identify consistent, biologically plausible functional network biomarkers across multiple neu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep into the Brain: Artificial Intelligence in Brain Diseases—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,164 Views
13 Pages

Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning to Predict the Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease with 3D Amyloid-PET

  • Min Gu Kwak,
  • Yi Su,
  • Kewei Chen,
  • David Weidman and ,
  • Teresa Wu,
  • Fleming Lure,
  • Jing Li and
  • for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is an important task that facilitates the development of treatment and prevention strategies, and may potentially improve patient outcomes. Neuroimaging has shown great promise, including the amyloid-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
623 Views
23 Pages

3 April 2026

Soybean diseases are the main factors causing serious yield reduction in soybeans. Therefore, an automatic identification method for soybean leaf diseases is an urgent need to develop. However, most soybean leaf disease recognition models have proble...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Agricultural Technologies: Monitoring, Modeling, and Machine Learning Techniques)
  • Article
  • Open Access
398 Views
13 Pages

29 June 2026

Self-supervised learning can reduce the dependence of 3D medical image analysis on expensive voxel-level annotations, but masked image modeling remains inefficient when uniform random masking is applied to volumetric data with large redundant backgro...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,427 Views
12 Pages

OFDM Emitter Identification Method Based on Data Augmentation and Contrastive Learning

  • Jiaqi Yu,
  • Ye Yuan,
  • Qian Zhang,
  • Wei Zhang and ,
  • Ziyu Fan and
  • Fusheng Jin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 December 2022

Deep learning technology has been widely applied in emitter identification. With the deepening research, the problem of emitter identification under the few-shots condition has become a frontier research direction. As a special communication signal,...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
643 Views
26 Pages

Deep Multimodal Phenotyping and Sensor Fusion for Preharvest Cotton Quality Assessment and Agricultural Economic Decision Support

  • Jingwen Luo,
  • Xintong Wang,
  • Shiguo Zhang,
  • Jiahe Zhang and ,
  • Ruobing Feng,
  • Xiuting Shu and
  • Shuo Yan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

15 July 2026

Cotton fiber quality is shaped during boll development, boll opening, fluffing, and harvesting, but current assessment still relies largely on manual field inspection and postharvest laboratory testing. This limits timely harvest scheduling and plot-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Sensing and Digital Signal Processing in Smart Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
570 Views
49 Pages

PhysGTT: A Physics-Guided Self-Supervised Graph Temporal Transformer for Forecasting Electricity Inconsistencies in Mini-Grids

  • Iacovos I. Ioannou,
  • Saher Javaid,
  • Minella Bezha,
  • Yasuo Tan and ,
  • Naoto Nagaoka and
  • Vasos Vassiliou
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

7 May 2026

Electricity inconsistencies in mini-grids, stemming from meter drift, telemetry faults, topology misconfiguration, non-technical losses, phase imbalance or data manipulation, often emerge as weak, spatially distributed deviations that are difficult t...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,094 Views
11 Pages

AWEncoder: Adversarial Watermarking Pre-Trained Encoders in Contrastive Learning

  • Tianxing Zhang,
  • Hanzhou Wu,
  • Xiaofeng Lu,
  • Gengle Han and
  • Guangling Sun

9 March 2023

As a self-supervised learning paradigm, contrastive learning has been widely used to pre-train a powerful encoder as an effective feature extractor for various downstream tasks. This process requires numerous unlabeled training data and computational...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies in Data and Information Security II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,485 Views
31 Pages

To address the limited data problem in real-world fault diagnosis, previous studies have primarily focused on semi-supervised learning and transfer learning methods. However, these approaches often struggle to obtain the necessary data, failing to fu...

(This article belongs to the Topic Perspectives in Fault Diagnosis and Fault Tolerant Control)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
109 Citations
23,281 Views
34 Pages

23 April 2023

Medical time series are sequential data collected over time that measures health-related signals, such as electroencephalography (EEG), electrocardiography (ECG), and intensive care unit (ICU) readings. Analyzing medical time series and identifying t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors for Physiological Parameters Measurement)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,914 Views
17 Pages

CDEST: Class Distinguishability-Enhanced Self-Training Method for Adopting Pre-Trained Models to Downstream Remote Sensing Image Semantic Segmentation

  • Ming Zhang,
  • Xin Gu,
  • Ji Qi,
  • Zhenshi Zhang and ,
  • Hemeng Yang,
  • Jun Xu,
  • Chengli Peng and
  • Haifeng Li
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

6 April 2024

The self-supervised learning (SSL) technique, driven by massive unlabeled data, is expected to be a promising solution for semantic segmentation of remote sensing images (RSIs) with limited labeled data, revolutionizing transfer learning. Traditional...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Artificial Intelligence for Remote Sensing: Methodology and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,138 Views
22 Pages

Diagnosing Parkinson’s disease (PD) through speech analysis is a promising area of research, as speech impairments are often one of the early signs of the disease. This study investigates the efficacy of fine-tuning pre-trained Automatic Speech...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Biomedical Applications, 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,261 Views
19 Pages

17 May 2024

Auditory research aims in general to lead to understanding of physiological processes. By contrast, the state of the art in automatic speech processing (notably recognition) is dominated by large pre-trained models that are meant to be used as black-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
118 Views
23 Pages

30 October 2026

Encrypted traffic now dominates IoT and sensor networks, and fully supervised classifiers are bottlenecked by label scarcity and the retraining cost of recognizing new attacks at the resource-constrained edge. TP-Net (Traffic Pretraining Network) cou...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,279 Views
19 Pages

28 February 2026

Background/Objectives: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnosis is difficult due to heterogeneity. Current Time-series Transformer (TST) methods cannot capture both dynamic and global brain connectivity simultaneously, which limits ASD classification...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational Neuroscience, Neuroinformatics, and Neurocomputing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,444 Views
10 Pages

Self-Supervised Facial Motion Representation Learning via Contrastive Subclips

  • Zheng Sun,
  • Shad A. Torrie,
  • Andrew W. Sumsion and
  • Dah-Jye Lee

Facial motion representation learning has become an exciting research topic, since biometric technologies are becoming more common in our daily lives. One of its applications is identity verification. After recording a dynamic facial motion video for...

(This article belongs to the Topic Applied Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
712 Views
14 Pages

CoRe: Joint Optimization with Contrastive Learning for Medical Image Registration

  • Eytan Kats,
  • Christoph Grossbroehmer,
  • Ziad Al-Haj Hemidi,
  • Fenja Falta and ,
  • Wiebke Heyer and
  • Mattias P. Heinrich
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 May 2026

Medical image registration is a fundamental task in medical image analysis, enabling the alignment of images from different modalities or time points. However, intensity inconsistencies and nonlinear tissue deformations pose significant challenges to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Pattern Recognition: Intelligent Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
175 Views
27 Pages

28 October 2026

The air conditioning compressor serves as the primary power unit in refrigeration systems. Vibration data acquired from vibration sensors can be used to implement fault diagnosis, and reliable fault diagnosis is critical for ensuring safe and stable...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)

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