From Semantics to Pixels: Coarse-to-Fine Masked Autoencoders for Hierarchical Visual Understanding
The paper proposes C2FMAE, a coarse-to-fine masked autoencoder that resolves the tension between global semantics and local details in self-supervised learning by employing a cascaded decoder and progressive masking curriculum on a newly constructed multi-granular dataset to achieve hierarchical visual understanding and superior performance across various vision tasks.