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The softmax function is a fundamental building block of deep neural networks, commonly used to define output distributions in classification tasks or attention weights in transformer architectures. Despite its widespread use and proven…

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Image classification is a fundamental computer vision task and an important baseline for deep metric learning. In decades efforts have been made on enhancing image classification accuracy by using deep learning models while less attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yunfeng Zhao , Huiyu Zhou , Fei Wu , Xifeng Wu

We propose a deep learning-based solution for the problem of feature learning in one-class classification. The proposed method operates on top of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) of choice and produces descriptive features while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Pramuditha Perera , Vishal M. Patel

Existing face forgery detection methods usually treat face forgery detection as a binary classification problem and adopt deep convolution neural networks to learn discriminative features. The ideal discriminative features should be only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Wanyi Zhuang , Qi Chu , Haojie Yuan , Changtao Miao , Bin Liu , Nenghai Yu

Training of deep neural networks heavily depends on the data distribution. In particular, the networks easily suffer from class imbalance. The trained networks would recognize the frequent classes better than the infrequent classes. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Byungju Kim , Junmo Kim

A novel technique for deep learning of image classifiers is presented. The learned CNN models offer better separation of deep features (also known as embedded vectors) measured by Euclidean proximity and also no deterioration of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Rafal Pilarczyk , Wladyslaw Skarbek

We propose a novel loss function for imbalanced classification. LDAM loss, which minimizes a margin-based generalization bound, is widely utilized for class-imbalanced image classification. Although, by using LDAM loss, it is possible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Sota Kato , Kazuhiro Hotta

Racial equality is an important theme of international human rights law, but it has been largely obscured when the overall face recognition accuracy is pursued blindly. More facts indicate racial bias indeed degrades the fairness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Mei Wang , Weihong Deng

State-of-the-art face recognition (FR) models often experience a significant performance drop when dealing with facial images in surveillance scenarios where images are in low quality and often corrupted with noise. Leveraging facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Md Mahedi Hasan , Shoaib Meraj Sami , Nasser Nasrabadi

With the recent advances in computer vision, age estimation has significantly improved in overall accuracy. However, owing to the most common methods do not take into account the class imbalance problem in age estimation datasets, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yiping Zhang , Yuntao Shou , Wei Ai , Tao Meng , Keqin Li

Face recognition has achieved unprecedented results, surpassing human capabilities in certain scenarios. However, these automatic solutions are not ready for production because they can be easily fooled by simple identity impersonation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Daniel Pérez-Cabo , David Jiménez-Cabello , Artur Costa-Pazo , Roberto J. López-Sastre

Minimizing inconsistencies across successive versions of an AI system is as crucial as reducing the overall error. In image classification, such inconsistencies manifest as negative flips, where an updated model misclassifies test samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Simone Ricci , Niccolò Biondi , Federico Pernici , Alberto Del Bimbo

The performance of deep neural networks for image recognition tasks such as predicting a smiling face is known to degrade with under-represented classes of sensitive attributes. We address this problem by introducing fairness-aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Tobias Hänel , Nishant Kumar , Dmitrij Schlesinger , Mengze Li , Erdem Ünal , Abouzar Eslami , Stefan Gumhold

The learning objective plays a fundamental role to build a recommender system. Most methods routinely adopt either pointwise or pairwise loss to train the model parameters, while rarely pay attention to softmax loss due to its computational…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Jiancan Wu , Xiang Wang , Xingyu Gao , Jiawei Chen , Hongcheng Fu , Tianyu Qiu

Training convolutional neural networks for image classification tasks usually causes information loss. Although most of the time the information lost is redundant with respect to the target task, there are still cases where discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Wei Shen , Fei Li , Rujie Liu

Clustering is one of the most fundamental tasks in machine learning. Recently, deep clustering has become a major trend in clustering techniques. Representation learning often plays an important role in the effectiveness of deep clustering,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Yaling Tao , Kentaro Takagi , Kouta Nakata

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

The cross-entropy softmax loss is the primary loss function used to train deep neural networks. On the other hand, the focal loss function has been demonstrated to provide improved performance when there is an imbalance in the number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Leslie N. Smith

In this paper, we propose FairNN a neural network that performs joint feature representation and classification for fairness-aware learning. Our approach optimizes a multi-objective loss function in which (a) learns a fair representation by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Tongxin Hu , Vasileios Iosifidis , Wentong Liao , Hang Zhang , Michael YingYang , Eirini Ntoutsi , Bodo Rosenhahn

Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) aims to classify sub-classes of objects in the same super-class (e.g., species of birds, models of cars). For the FGVC tasks, the essential solution is to find discriminative subtle information of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Chenyu Guo , Jiyang Xie , Kongming Liang , Xian Sun , Zhanyu Ma