Self-supervised and unsupervised learning

Collecting and annotating diverse data is complex, costly, and time-consuming. We explore alternatives to fully-supervised learning, such as unsupervised, self-supervised and active learning, enabling AI models to generate labels automatically and reduce reliance on manually labeled datasets.

Selected publications

  1. 2026

  2. Franca: Nested Matryoshka Clustering for Scalable Visual Representation Learning
    Shashanka Venkataramanan, Valentinos Pariza, Mohammadreza Salehi, Lukas Knobel, Spyros Gidaris, Elias Ramzi, Andrei Bursuc, Yuki M. Asano
    CVPR 2026
  3. 3D sans 3D Scans: Scalable Pre-training from Video-Generated Point Clouds
    Ryosuke Yamada, Kohsuke Ide, Yoshihiro Fukuhara, Hirokatsu Kataoka, Gilles Puy, Andrei Bursuc, Yuki M. Asano
    CVPR 2026
  4. Is clustering enough for LiDAR instance segmentation? A state-of-the-art training-free baseline
    Corentin Sautier, Gilles Puy, Alexandre Boulch, Renaud Marlet, Vincent Lepetit
    3DV 2026
  5. 2025

  6. DINO-Foresight: Looking into the Future with DINO
    Efstathios Karypidis, Ioannis Kakogeorgiou, Spyros Gidaris, and Nikos Komodakis
    NeurIPS 2025
  7. DIP: Unsupervised Dense In-Context Post-training of Visual Representations
    Sophia Sirko-Galouchenko, Antonin Vobecky, Andrei Bursuc, Nicolas Thome, Spyros Gidaris
    ICCV 2025
  8. FLOSS: Free Lunch in Open-vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
    Yasser Benigmim, Mohammad Fahes, Tuan-Hung Vu, Andrei Bursuc, Raoul de Charette
    ICCV 2025
  9. MoSiC: Optimal-Transport Motion Trajectories for Dense Self-Supervised Learning
    Mohammadreza Salehi*, Shashanka Venkataramanan*, Ioana Simion, Efstratios Gavves, Cees G. M. Snoek, Yuki M Asano (* equal contribution)
    ICCV 2025
  10. VaViM and VaVAM: Autonomous Driving through Video Generative Modeling
    Florent Bartoccioni, Elias Ramzi, Victor Besnier, Shashanka Venkataramanan, Tuan-Hung Vu, Yihong Xu, Loick Chambon, Spyros Gidaris, Serkan Odabas, David Hurych, Renaud Marlet, Alexandre Boulch, Mickael Chen, Éloi Zablocki, Andrei Bursuc, Eduardo Valle, Matthieu Cord
    CoRL Workshop 2025
  11. Advancing Semantic Future Prediction through Multimodal Visual Sequence Transformers
    Efstathios Karypidis, Ioannis Kakogeorgiou, Spyros Gidaris, and Nikos Komodakis
    CVPR 2025
  12. MOCA: Self-supervised Representation Learning by Predicting Masked Online Codebook Assignments
    Spyros Gidaris, Andrei Bursuc, Oriane Siméoni, Nikos Komodakis, Matthieu Cord, Patrick Pérez
    TMLR 2024 and ICLR 2025
  13. UNIT: unsupervised Online Instance Segmentation through Time
    Corentin Sautier, Gilles Puy, Alexandre Boulch, Renaud Marlet, Vincent Lepetit
    3DV 2025
  14. 2024

  15. DiffCut: Catalyzing Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation with Diffusion Features and Recursive Normalized Cut
    Paul Couairon, Mustafa Shukor, Jean-Emmanuel Haugeard, Matthieu Cord, Nicolas Thome
    NeurIPS 2024
  16. No Train, all Gain: Self-Supervised Gradients Improve Deep Frozen Representations
    Walter Simoncini, Spyros Gidaris, Andrei Bursuc, Yuki M. Asano
    NeurIPS 2024
  17. The BRAVO Semantic Segmentation Challenge Results in UNCV2024
    Tuan-Hung Vu, Eduardo Valle, Andrei Bursuc, Tommie Kerssies, Daan de Geus, Gijs Dubbelman, Long Qian, Bingke Zhu, Yingying Chen, Ming Tang, Jinqiao Wang, Tomáš Vojíř, Jan Šochman, Jiří Matas, Michael Smith, Frank Ferrie, Shamik Basu, Christos Sakaridis, Luc Van Gool
    ECCV 2024
  18. CLIP-DINOiser: Teaching CLIP a few DINO tricks for open-vocabulary semantic segmentation
    Monika Wysoczańska, Oriane Siméoni, Michaël Ramamonjisoa, Andrei Bursuc, Tomasz Trzciński, Patrick Pérez
    ECCV 2024
  19. Reliability in Semantic Segmentation: Can We Use Synthetic Data?
    Thibaut Loiseau, Tuan-Hung Vu, Mickael Chen, Patrick Pérez, Matthieu Cord
    ECCV 2024
  20. Train Till You Drop: Towards Stable and Robust Source-free Unsupervised 3D Domain Adaptation
    Bjoern Michele, Alexandre Boulch, Tuan-Hung Vu, Gilles Puy, Renaud Marlet, Nicolas Courty
    ECCV 2024
  21. Unsupervised Object Localization in the Era of Self-Supervised ViTs: A Survey
    Oriane Siméoni, Éloi Zablocki, Spyros Gidaris, Gilles Puy, Patrick Pérez
    IJCV 2024
  22. A Simple Recipe for Language-guided Domain Generalized Segmentation
    Mohammad Fahes, Tuan-Hung Vu, Andrei Bursuc, Patrick Pérez, Raoul de Charette
    CVPR 2024
  23. Three Pillars improving Vision Foundation Model Distillation for Lidar
    Gilles Puy, Spyros Gidaris, Alexandre Boulch, Oriane Siméoni, Corentin Sautier, Patrick Pérez, Andrei Bursuc, Renaud Marlet
    CVPR 2024
  24. SPOT: Self-Training with Patch-Order Permutation for Object-Centric Learning with Autoregressive Transformers
    Ioannis Kakogeorgiou, Spyros Gidaris, Konstantinos Karantzalos, and Nikos Komodakis
    CVPR 2024highlight
  25. BEVContrast: Self-Supervision in BEV Space for Automotive Lidar Point Clouds
    Corentin Sautier, Gilles Puy, Alexandre Boulch, Renaud Marlet, Vincent Lepetit
    3DV 2024
  26. SALUDA: Surface-based Automotive Lidar Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
    Bjoern Michele, Alexandre Boulch, Gilles Puy, Tuan-Hung Vu, Renaud Marlet and Nicolas Courty
    3DV 2024
  27. CLIP-DIY: CLIP Dense Inference Yields Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation For-Free
    Monika Wysoczańska, Michaël Ramamonjisoa, Tomasz Trzciński, Oriane Siméoni
    WACV 2024
  28. 2023

  29. POP-3D: Open-Vocabulary 3D Occupancy Prediction from Images
    Antonin Vobecky, Oriane Siméoni, David Hurych, Spyros Gidaris, Andrei Bursuc, Patrick Pérez, Josef Sivic
    NeurIPS 2023
  30. PØDA: Prompt-driven Zero-shot Domain Adaptation
    Mohammad Fahes, Tuan-Hung Vu, Andrei Bursuc, Patrick Pérez, Raoul de Charette
    ICCV 2023
  31. You Never Get a Second Chance To Make a Good First Impression: Seeding Active Learning for 3D Semantic Segmentation
    Nermin Samet, Oriane Siméoni, Gilles Puy, Georgy Ponimatkin, Renaud Marlet, and Vincent Lepetit
    ICCV 2023
  32. ALSO: Automotive Lidar Self-supervision by Occupancy estimation
    Alexandre Boulch, Corentin Sautier, Björn Michele, Gilles Puy, Renaud Marlet
    CVPR 2023
  33. Unsupervised Object Localization: Observing the Background to Discover Objects
    Oriane Siméoni, Chloé Sekkat, Gilles Puy, Antonin Vobecky, Éloi Zablocki, Patrick Pérez
    CVPR 2023
  34. RangeViT: Towards Vision Transformers for 3D Semantic Segmentation in Autonomous Driving
    Angelika Ando, Spyros Gidaris, Andrei Bursuc, Gilles Puy, Alexandre Boulch, and Renaud Marlet
    CVPR 2023
  35. Efficient identification of butterfly sparse matrix factorizations
    Léon Zheng, Elisa Riccietti, Rémi Gribonval
    SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science 2023
  36. Self-supervised learning with rotation-invariant kernels
    Léon Zheng, Gilles Puy, Elisa Riccietti, Patrick Pérez, Rémi Gribonval
    ICLR 2023
  37. 2022

  38. What to Hide from Your Students: Attention-Guided Masked Image Modeling
    Ioannis Kakogeorgiou, Spyros Gidaris, Bill Psomas, Yannis Avrithis, Andrei Bursuc, Konstantinos Karantzalos, and Nikos Komodakis
    ECCV 2022
  39. Drive&Segment: Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation of Urban Scenes via Cross-modal Distillation
    Antonin Vobecky, Oriane Siméoni, David Hurych, Spyros Gidaris, Andrei Bursuc, Patrick Pérez, Josef Sivic
    ECCV 2022oral
  40. Active Learning Strategies for Weakly-Supervised Object Detection
    Huy V. Vo, Oriane Siméoni, Spyros Gidaris, Andrei Bursuc, Patrick Pérez, and Jean Ponce
    ECCV 2022
  41. CSG0: Continual Urban Scene Generation with Zero Forgetting
    Himalaya Jain (*), Tuan-Hung Vu (*), Patrick Pérez and Matthieu Cord (* equal contrib.)
    CVPRW 2022
  42. Image-to-Lidar Self-Supervised Distillation for Autonomous Driving Data
    Corentin Sautier, Gilles Puy, Spyros Gidaris, Alexandre Boulch, Andrei Bursuc, and Renaud Marlet
    CVPR 2022
  43. 2021

  44. Handling new target classes in semantic segmentation with domain adaptation
    Maxime Bucher, Tuan-Hung Vu, Matthieu Cord, and Patrick Pérez
    CVIU 2021
  45. Large-Scale Unsupervised Object Discovery
    Huy V. Vo, Elena Sizikova, Cordelia Schmid, Patrick Pérez and Jean Ponce
    NeurIPS 2021
  46. Localizing Objects with Self-Supervised Transformers and no Labels
    Oriane Siméoni, Gilles Puy, Huy V. Vo, Simon Roburin, Spyros Gidaris, Andrei Bursuc, Patrick Pérez, Renaud Marlet, Jean Ponce
    BMVC 2021
  47. NeeDrop: Unsupervised Shape Representation from Sparse Point Clouds using Needle Dropping
    Alexandre Boulch, Pierre-Alain Langlois, Gilles Puy, and Renaud Marlet
    3DV 2021
  48. Online Bag-of-Visual-Words Generation for Unsupervised Representation Learning
    Spyros Gidaris, Andrei Bursuc, Gilles Puy, Nikos Komodakis, Patrick Pérez, and Matthieu Cord
    CVPR 2021
  49. Semantic Palette: Guiding Scene Generation with Class Proportions
    Guillaume Le Moing, Tuan-Hung Vu, Himalaya Jain, Patrick Pérez and Matthieu Cord
    CVPR 2021
  50. Artificial Dummies for Urban Dataset Augmentation
    Antonín Vobecký, David Hurych, Michal Uřičář, Patrick Pérez, and Josef Šivic
    AAAI 2021
  51. 2020

  52. Learning Representations by Predicting Bags of Visual Words
    Spyros Gidaris, Andrei Bursuc, Nikos Komodakis, Patrick Pérez, and Matthieu Cord
    CVPR 2020
  53. ESL: Entropy-guided Self-supervised Learning for Domain Adaptation in Semantic Segmentation
    Antoine Saporta, Tuan-Hung Vu, Matthieu Cord and Patrick Pérez
    CVPRW 2020
  54. This dataset does not exist: training models from generated images
    Victor Besnier, Himalaya Jain, Andrei Bursuc, Matthieu Cord, and Patrick Pérez
    ICASSP 2020
  55. 2019

  56. Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation
    Maxime Bucher, Tuan-Hung Vu, Matthieu Cord, and Patrick Pérez
    NeurIPS 2019
  57. Boosting Few-Shot Visual Learning With Self-Supervision
    Spyros Gidaris, Andrei Bursuc, Nikos Komodakis, Patrick Pérez, and Matthieu Cord
    ICCV 2019
  58. Unsupervised Image Matching and Object Discovery as Optimization
    Huy V. Vo, Francis Bach, Minsu Cho, Kai Han, Yann Lecun, Patrick Pérez and Jean Ponce
    CVPR 2019