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Dense Contrastive Learning
Introduced by Xinlong Wang et al. in Dense Contrastive Learning for Self-Supervised Visual Pre-Training
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Dense Contrastive Learning is a self-supervised learning method for dense prediction tasks. It implements self-supervised learning by optimizing a pairwise contrastive (dis)similarity loss at the pixel level between two views of input images. Contrasting with regular contrastive loss, the contrastive loss is computed between the single feature vectors outputted by the global projection head, at the level of global feature, while the dense contrastive loss is computed between the dense feature vectors outputted by the dense projection head, at the level of local feature.
Papers archive 2025-07-28
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An Asymmetric Augmented Self-Supervised Learning Method for Unsupervised Fine-Grained Image Hashing 1 Jan 2024 · 0 repositories
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Fine-Grained Spatiotemporal Motion Alignment for Contrastive Video Representation Learning 1 Sep 2023 · 1 repository · arXiv:2309.00297Syntology ran 2 of 3 samples · 1 unverified
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Correlation between Alignment-Uniformity and Performance of Dense Contrastive Representations 17 Oct 2022 · 1 repository · arXiv:2210.08819
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Pixel-level Correspondence for Self-Supervised Learning from Video 8 Jul 2022 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2207.03866
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Contrastive Learning of Features between Images and LiDAR 24 Jun 2022 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2206.12071
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Cross-Patch Dense Contrastive Learning for Semi-Supervised Segmentation of Cellular Nuclei in Histopathologic Images 1 Jan 2022 · 1 repository
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Dense Contrastive Visual-Linguistic Pretraining 24 Sep 2021 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2109.11778
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Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training for the Italian Language 19 Aug 2021 · 1 repository · arXiv:2108.08688
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Dense Contrastive Learning for Self-Supervised Visual Pre-Training 18 Nov 2020 · 7 repositories · arXiv:2011.09157Syntology ran 3 of 3 samples · 0 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)
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