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6 papers

cs.CV2026

Three Necessary Principles for Self-Supervised Visual Representation Learning

Nikos Giakoumoglou, Paschalis Giakoumoglou, Tania Stathaki

We argue that learning visual representations without labels requires a training signal jointly complete across three non-overlapping objectives: semantic invariance across augment…

cs.CV2026

Open-World Semantic Segmentation with Sensitivity Modeling

Anastasios Romanos Varvarigos, Nikos Giakoumoglou, Tania Stathaki

Modern vision systems must operate in "open-world" settings, where models must recognize known categories and detect unseen or anomalous content. Conventional semantic segmentation…

cs.CV2025

Distilling Invariant Representations with Dual Augmentation

Nikolaos Giakoumoglou, Nikos Giakoumoglou, Tania Stathaki

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been widely used to transfer knowledge from large, accurate models (teachers) to smaller, efficient ones (students). Recent methods have explored en…

cs.CV2025

A Review on Discriminative Self-supervised Learning Methods in Computer Vision

Nikolaos Giakoumoglou, Nikos Giakoumoglou, Tania Stathaki +1

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has rapidly emerged as a transformative approach in computer vision, enabling the extraction of rich feature representations from vast amounts of unl…

cs.CV2025

Discriminative and Consistent Representation Distillation

Nikolaos Giakoumoglou, Nikos Giakoumoglou, Tania Stathaki

Knowledge Distillation (KD) transfers knowledge from a large teacher to a smaller student model. While contrastive objectives have proven effective for learning structured represen…

cs.CV2025

SynCo: Synthetic Hard Negatives for Contrastive Visual Representation Learning

Nikolaos Giakoumoglou, Nikos Giakoumoglou, Tania Stathaki

Contrastive learning has become a dominant approach in self-supervised visual representation learning, but efficiently leveraging hard negatives, which are samples closely resembli…