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most citedSelf-supervised Contrastive Learning of Multi-view Facial Expressions

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21 papers

cs.LG2026

SPeaR: Test-Time Adaptation with Steering Primitives for Realigning Representations

Muhammad Sudipto Siam Dip, Ali Etemad

Test-time adaptation (TTA) addresses distribution shift using only unlabeled test data. Existing methods typically adapt pretrained models by updating their parameters, limiting bo…

cs.CV2026

Analyzing and Improving Fine-grained Preference Optimization in Medical LVLMs

Shayan Mohammadizadehsamakosh, Pritam Sarkar, Leonid Sigal +2

Preference optimization is increasingly used to post-train medical large vision-language models (LVLMs), yet it operates at a much coarser granularity than the one that defines cli…

cs.HC2026

Leveraging Foundation Models for Calibration-Free c-VEP BCIs

Mohammadreza Behboodi, Eli Kinney-Lang, Ali Etemad +2

Foundation Models (FMs) have surged in popularity over the past five years, with applications spanning fields from computer vision to natural language processing. Brain-Computer In…

eess.IV2025

Advancing Medical Representation Learning Through High-Quality Data

Negin Baghbanzadeh, Adibvafa Fallahpour, Yasaman Parhizkar +8

Despite the growing scale of medical Vision-Language datasets, the impact of dataset quality on model performance remains under-explored. We introduce Open-PMC, a high-quality medi…

cs.CV2025

A Shared Encoder Approach to Multimodal Representation Learning

Shuvendu Roy, Franklin Ogidi, Ali Etemad +2

Multimodal representation learning has demonstrated remarkable potential in enabling models to process and integrate diverse data modalities, such as text and images, for improved…

cs.CL2025

Task-agnostic Prompt Compression with Context-aware Sentence Embedding and Reward-guided Task Descriptor

Barys Liskavets, Shuvendu Roy, Maxim Ushakov +3

The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to significant interest in prompt compression, a technique aimed at reducing the length of input prompts while preserving critical…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

SelfPrompt: Confidence-Aware Semi-Supervised Tuning for Robust Vision-Language Model Adaptation

Shuvendu Roy, Ali Etemad

We present SelfPrompt, a novel prompt-tuning approach for vision-language models (VLMs) in a semi-supervised learning setup. Existing methods for tuning VLMs in semi-supervised set…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Prompt Compression with Context-Aware Sentence Encoding for Fast and Improved LLM Inference

Barys Liskavets, Maxim Ushakov, Shuvendu Roy +3

Large language models (LLMs) have triggered a new stream of research focusing on compressing the context length to reduce the computational cost while ensuring the retention of hel…

cs.CV2024

Benchmarking Vision-Language Contrastive Methods for Medical Representation Learning

Shuvendu Roy, Yasaman Parhizkar, Franklin Ogidi +5

We perform a comprehensive benchmarking of contrastive frameworks for learning multimodal representations in the medical domain. Through this study, we aim to answer the following…

cs.CV2024

Consistency-Guided Asynchronous Contrastive Tuning for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Tuning of Foundation Models

Shuvendu Roy, Elham Dolatabadi, Arash Afkanpour +1

We propose Consistency-guided Asynchronous Contrastive Tuning (CoACT), a novel method for continuously tuning foundation models to learn new classes in few-shot settings. CoACT con…

cs.CV2024

A Bag of Tricks for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning

Shuvendu Roy, Chunjong Park, Aldi Fahrezi +1

We present a bag of tricks framework for few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL), which is a challenging form of continual learning that involves continuous adaptation to new t…

cs.CV2023

Contrastive Learning of View-Invariant Representations for Facial Expressions Recognition

Shuvendu Roy, Ali Etemad

Although there has been much progress in the area of facial expression recognition (FER), most existing methods suffer when presented with images that have been captured from viewi…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Active Learning with Contrastive Pre-training for Facial Expression Recognition

Shuvendu Roy, Ali Etemad

Deep learning has played a significant role in the success of facial expression recognition (FER), thanks to large models and vast amounts of labelled data. However, obtaining labe…

cs.CV2023

Exploring the Boundaries of Semi-Supervised Facial Expression Recognition using In-Distribution, Out-of-Distribution, and Unconstrained Data

Shuvendu Roy, Ali Etemad

Deep learning-based methods have been the key driving force behind much of the recent success of facial expression recognition (FER) systems. However, the need for large amounts of…

cs.LG2023

Scaling Up Semi-supervised Learning with Unconstrained Unlabelled Data

Shuvendu Roy, Ali Etemad

We propose UnMixMatch, a semi-supervised learning framework which can learn effective representations from unconstrained unlabelled data in order to scale up performance. Most exis…

cs.CV2023★ 10 cited

Consistency-guided Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Models

Shuvendu Roy, Ali Etemad

We propose Consistency-guided Prompt learning (CoPrompt), a new fine-tuning method for vision-language models. Our approach improves the generalization of large foundation models w…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

Impact of Strategic Sampling and Supervision Policies on Semi-supervised Learning

Shuvendu Roy, Ali Etemad

In semi-supervised representation learning frameworks, when the number of labelled data is very scarce, the quality and representativeness of these samples become increasingly impo…

cs.CV2022

Temporal Contrastive Learning with Curriculum

Shuvendu Roy, Ali Etemad

We present ConCur, a contrastive video representation learning method that uses curriculum learning to impose a dynamic sampling strategy in contrastive training. More specifically…

cs.CV2022

Analysis of Semi-Supervised Methods for Facial Expression Recognition

Shuvendu Roy, Ali Etemad

Training deep neural networks for image recognition often requires large-scale human annotated data. To reduce the reliance of deep neural solutions on labeled data, state-of-the-a…

cs.CV2021★ 32 cited

Self-supervised Contrastive Learning of Multi-view Facial Expressions

Shuvendu Roy, Ali Etemad

Facial expression recognition (FER) has emerged as an important component of human-computer interaction systems. Despite recent advancements in FER, performance often drops signifi…

cs.CV2021

Spatiotemporal Contrastive Learning of Facial Expressions in Videos

Shuvendu Roy, Ali Etemad

We propose a self-supervised contrastive learning approach for facial expression recognition (FER) in videos. We propose a novel temporal sampling-based augmentation scheme to be u…