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Most segmentation losses are arguably variants of the Cross-Entropy (CE) or Dice losses. On the surface, these two categories of losses seem unrelated, and there is no clear consensus as to which category is a better choice, with varying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Bingyuan Liu , Jose Dolz , Adrian Galdran , Riadh Kobbi , Ismail Ben Ayed

Loss functions are error metrics that quantify the difference between a prediction and its corresponding ground truth. Fundamentally, they define a functional landscape for traversal by gradient descent. Although numerous loss functions…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-09 Chaitanya Kaul , Nick Pears , Hang Dai , Roderick Murray-Smith , Suresh Manandhar

The binary segmentation of whiteboard strokes is hindered by extreme class imbalance, caused by stroke pixels that constitute only $1.79%$ of the image on average, and in addition, the thin-stroke subset averages $1.14% \pm 0.41%$ in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Nicholas Korcynski

Significant progress has been made in boundary detection with the help of convolutional neural networks. Recent boundary detection models not only focus on real object boundary detection but also "crisp" boundaries (precisely localized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Yi-Jun Cao , Chuan Lin , Yong-Jie Li

Real-world object classes appear in imbalanced ratios. This poses a significant challenge for classifiers which get biased towards frequent classes. We hypothesize that improving the generalization capability of a classifier should improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Munawar Hayat , Salman Khan , Waqas Zamir , Jianbing Shen , Ling Shao

Automated brain tumour segmentation has the potential of making a massive improvement in disease diagnosis, surgery, monitoring and surveillance. However, this task is extremely challenging. Here, we describe our automated segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-13 Indrajit Mazumdar

While machine learning (ML) architectures have evolved rapidly to account for complex data, loss functions like cross-entropy remain mostly structure-agnostic in many real-world applications. However, the `class-symmetric' nature of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yasser Taha , Grégoire Montavon , Nils Körber

Neural network training is commonly based on SGD. However, the understanding of SGD's ability to converge to good local minima, given the non-convex nature of loss functions and the intricate geometric characteristics of loss landscapes,…

Loss functions are at the heart of deep learning, shaping how models learn and perform across diverse tasks. They are used to quantify the difference between predicted outputs and ground truth labels, guiding the optimization process to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Omar Elharrouss , Yasir Mahmood , Yassine Bechqito , Mohamed Adel Serhani , Elarbi Badidi , Jamal Riffi , Hamid Tairi

Intelligent diagnosis method based on data-driven and deep learning is an attractive and meaningful field in recent years. However, in practical application scenarios, the imbalance of time-series fault is an urgent problem to be solved.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Xingtai Gui , Jiyang Zhang

Super-resolution using deep neural networks typically relies on highly curated training sets that are often unavailable in clinical deployment scenarios. Using loss functions that assume Gaussian-distributed residuals makes the learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Uddeshya Upadhyay , Suyash P. Awate

Quantitative assessment of the abdominal region from clinically acquired CT scans requires the simultaneous segmentation of abdominal organs. Thanks to the availability of high-performance computational resources, deep learning-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-11 Samra Irshad , Douglas P. S. Gomes , Seong Tae Kim

Data-driven fault detection has been regarded as a 3D image segmentation task. The models trained from synthetic data are difficult to generalize in some surveys. Recently, training 3D fault segmentation using sparse manual 2D slices is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Yimin Dou , Kewen Li , Jianbing Zhu , Timing Li , Shaoquan Tan , Zongchao Huang

The Hausdorff Distance (HD) is widely used in evaluating medical image segmentation methods. However, existing segmentation methods do not attempt to reduce HD directly. In this paper, we present novel loss functions for training…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-24 Davood Karimi , Septimiu E. Salcudean

Communication scene recognition has been widely applied in practice, but using deep learning to address this problem faces challenges such as insufficient data and imbalanced data distribution. To address this, we designed a weighted loss…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-02-10 Jiasong Han , Yufei Feng , Xiaofeng Zhong

We propose a method that substantially improves the efficiency of deep distance metric learning based on the optimization of the triplet loss function. One epoch of such training process based on a naive optimization of the triplet loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Thanh-Toan Do , Toan Tran , Ian Reid , Vijay Kumar , Tuan Hoang , Gustavo Carneiro

A novel method for tackling the problem of imbalanced data in medical image segmentation is proposed in this work. In balanced cross entropy (CE) loss, which is a type of weighted CE loss, the weight assigned to each class is the in-verse…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Seyed Mohsen Hosseini , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

Nowadays, deep learning is the standard approach for a wide range of problems, including biometrics, such as face recognition and speech recognition, etc. Biometric problems often use deep learning models to extract features from images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Pedro Silva , Gladston Moreira , Vander Freitas , Rodrigo Silva , David Menotti , Eduardo Luz

We present a computational method for empirically characterizing the training loss level-sets of deep neural networks. Our method numerically constructs a path in parameter space that is constrained to a set with a fixed near-zero training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Naveed Tahir , Garrett E. Katz

Many loss functions have been derived from cross-entropy loss functions such as large-margin softmax loss and focal loss. The large-margin softmax loss makes the classification more rigorous and prevents overfitting. The focal loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Jiajie Chen