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The visual world naturally exhibits a long-tailed distribution of open classes, which poses great challenges to modern visual systems. Existing approaches either perform class re-balancing strategies or directly improve network modules to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Teli Ma , Shijie Geng , Mengmeng Wang , Jing Shao , Jiasen Lu , Hongsheng Li , Peng Gao , Yu Qiao

Imbalanced classification datasets pose significant challenges in machine learning, often leading to biased models that perform poorly on underrepresented classes. With the rise of foundation models, recent research has focused on the full,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Nakul Sharma

Long-tailed data is still a big challenge for deep neural networks, even though they have achieved great success on balanced data. We observe that vanilla training on long-tailed data with cross-entropy loss makes the instance-rich head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Mengke Li , Yiu-ming Cheung , Yang Lu

Large-scale object detection and instance segmentation face a severe data imbalance. The finer-grained object classes become, the less frequent they appear in our datasets. However, at test-time, we expect a detector that performs well for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Jang Hyun Cho , Philipp Krähenbühl

In conventional deep learning, the number of neurons typically remains fixed during training. However, insights from biology suggest that the human hippocampus undergoes continuous neuron generation and pruning of neurons over the course of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Taigo Sakai , Kazuhiro Hotta

Taxonomic classification of ecological families, genera, and species underpins biodiversity monitoring and conservation. Existing computer vision methods typically address fine-grained recognition and long-tailed learning in isolation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Cheng Yaw Low , Heejoon Koo , Jaewoo Park , Meeyoung Cha

Real-world data are long-tailed, the lack of tail samples leads to a significant limitation in the generalization ability of the model. Although numerous approaches of class re-balancing perform well for moderate class imbalance problems,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yanbiao Ma , Licheng Jiao , Fang Liu , Shuyuan Yang , Xu Liu , Puhua Chen

Data privacy and class imbalance are the norm rather than the exception in many machine learning tasks. Recent attempts have been launched to, on one side, address the problem of learning from pervasive private data, and on the other side,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Zihan Chen , Songshang Liu , Hualiang Wang , Howard H. Yang , Tony Q. S. Quek , Zuozhu Liu

Part-based approaches for fine-grained recognition do not show the expected performance gain over global methods, although explicitly focusing on small details that are relevant for distinguishing highly similar classes. We assume that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Dimitri Korsch , Paul Bodesheim , Joachim Denzler

Clearly explaining a rationale for a classification decision to an end-user can be as important as the decision itself. Existing approaches for deep visual recognition are generally opaque and do not output any justification text;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Lisa Anne Hendricks , Zeynep Akata , Marcus Rohrbach , Jeff Donahue , Bernt Schiele , Trevor Darrell

The term fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) refers to classification tasks where the classes are very similar and the classification model needs to be able to find subtle differences to make the correct prediction. State-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Harald Hanselmann , Hermann Ney

Whether what you see in Figure 1 is a "flamingo" or a "bird", is the question we ask in this paper. While fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) strives to arrive at the former, for the majority of us non-experts just "bird" would…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Dongliang Chang , Kaiyue Pang , Yixiao Zheng , Zhanyu Ma , Yi-Zhe Song , Jun Guo

Real-world data typically follow a long-tailed distribution, where a few majority categories occupy most of the data while most minority categories contain a limited number of samples. Classification models minimizing cross-entropy struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Jianggang Zhu , Zheng Wang , Jingjing Chen , Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang

We address the difficult problem of distinguishing fine-grained object categories in low resolution images. Wepropose a simple an effective deep learning approach that transfers fine-grained knowledge gained from high resolution training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Xingchao Peng , Judy Hoffman , Stella X. Yu , Kate Saenko

Fine-Grained Visual Classification (FGVC) is an important computer vision problem that involves small diversity within the different classes, and often requires expert annotators to collect data. Utilizing this notion of small visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Abhimanyu Dubey , Otkrist Gupta , Ramesh Raskar , Nikhil Naik

The natural world often follows a long-tailed data distribution where only a few classes account for most of the examples. This long-tail causes classifiers to overfit to the majority class. To mitigate this, prior solutions commonly adopt…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Rahul Duggal , Scott Freitas , Sunny Dhamnani , Duen Horng Chau , Jimeng Sun

Continual learning (CL) with long-tailed data distributions remains a critical challenge for real-world AI systems, where models must sequentially adapt to new classes while retaining knowledge of old ones, despite severe class imbalance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Hao Dai , Chong Tang , Jagmohan Chauhan

Main challenges in long-tailed recognition come from the imbalanced data distribution and sample scarcity in its tail classes. While techniques have been proposed to achieve a more balanced training loss and to improve tail classes data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Bo Liu , Haoxiang Li , Hao Kang , Nuno Vasconcelos , Gang Hua

Most existing methods that cope with noisy labels usually assume that the class distributions are well balanced, which has insufficient capacity to deal with the practical scenarios where training samples have imbalanced distributions. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Chaowei Fang , Lechao Cheng , Huiyan Qi , Dingwen Zhang

The search for predictive models that generalize to the long tail of sensor inputs is the central difficulty when developing data-driven models for autonomous vehicles. In this paper, we use lane detection to study modeling and training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Jonah Philion