arXiv Computer Vision

Using Deep Learning Models Pretrained by Self-Supervised Learning for Protein Localization

The study evaluates self‑supervised learning (SSL) models pretrained on ImageNet‑1k and the Human Protein Atlas (HPA) Field‑of‑View (FOV) for protein localization in microscopy images. DINO‑based Vision Transformer backbones pretrained on either dataset transfer well to the OpenCell dataset, achieving strong performance even without fine‑tuning and improving further when fine‑tuned (0.704 ± 0.027 macro F1 on 17 classes). At the single‑cell level, the HPA‑pretrained model outperforms others in k‑nearest‑neighbor classification across all neighborhood sizes (macro F1 ≥ 0.515).

arXiv AI
Sep 7

An Empirical Study into Clustering of Unseen Datasets with Self-Supervised Encoders

The paper investigates whether pretrained image models can generalize to unseen datasets by clustering their embeddings. Using encoders trained only on ImageNet‑1k, both supervised and self‑supervised, the authors evaluate clustering performance on out‑of‑domain images. They find that supervised encoders perform better within the training domain, while self‑supervised encoders excel far outside it, and that fine‑tuning self‑supervised models reverses this trend. Additionally, the study shows that the silhouette score in UMAP‑reduced space correlates strongly with clustering accuracy, offering a proxy metric when labels are unavailable.

By Scott C. Lowe, Joakim Bruslund Haurum, Sageev Oore, Thomas B. Moeslund, Graham W. Taylor
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 2

Pix2Rep-v2: Data-Efficient Representation Learning for Dense Medical Imaging Applications

Pix2Rep-v2 is a self‑supervised learning framework that learns pixel‑ and voxel‑level representations for dense medical imaging tasks, using a redundancy‑reduction objective and equivariance principles to scale to 3D and wide field‑of‑view data. The method is evaluated on four datasets across multiple modalities, tasks, and backbones, demonstrating higher data‑efficiency in few‑shot scenarios and competitive performance, such as a +9.3 Dice point improvement in one‑shot segmentation on the M&Ms‑2 dataset. An in‑context dense prototype approach is also proposed, eliminating the need for downstream training.

By S. Sifaoui, E. Angelini, S. Toupin, T. Pezel, L. Le Folgoc