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The classification and recognition of maritime objects are crucial for enhancing maritime safety, monitoring, and intelligent sea environment prediction. However, existing unsupervised methods for maritime object classification often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Dan Song , Shumeng Huo , Wenhui Li , Lanjun Wang , Chao Xue , An-An Liu

Real-world data often has a long-tailed distribution, where the scarcity of tail samples significantly limits the model's generalization ability. Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) are generative models based on stochastic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Jingyu Kong , Yuan Guo , Yu Wang , Yuping Duan

Federated Learning (FL) has become a popular distributed learning paradigm that involves multiple clients training a global model collaboratively in a data privacy-preserving manner. However, the data samples usually follow a long-tailed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Wenkai Yang , Deli Chen , Hao Zhou , Fandong Meng , Jie Zhou , Xu Sun

Long-tailed recognition suffers from a persistent head--tail trade-off: improving tail performance often degrades head accuracy and can increase training instability. Despite strong empirical results from re-weighting, decoupled training,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Chang Chu , Qingyue Zhang , Shao-Lun Huang , Junxiong Zheng

Machine learning typically relies on the assumption that training and testing distributions are identical and that data is centrally stored for training and testing. However, in real-world scenarios, distributions may differ significantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Ying Li , Xingwei Wang , Rongfei Zeng , Praveen Kumar Donta , Ilir Murturi , Min Huang , Schahram Dustdar

Domain adaptation problems arise in a variety of applications, where a training dataset from the \textit{source} domain and a test dataset from the \textit{target} domain typically follow different distributions. The primary difficulty in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Wenhao Jiang , Cheng Deng , Wei Liu , Feiping Nie , Fu-lai Chung , Heng Huang

Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets) have achieved excellent recognition performance in various visual recognition tasks. A large labeled training set is one of the most important factors for its success. However, it is difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Bin-Bin Gao , Chao Xing , Chen-Wei Xie , Jianxin Wu , Xin Geng

Federated learning is designed to enhance data security and privacy, but faces challenges when dealing with heterogeneous data in long-tailed and non-IID distributions. This paper explores an overlooked scenario where tail classes are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Zhuoxin Chen , Zhenyu Wu , Yang Ji

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

Modern image classifiers perform well on populated classes, while degrading considerably on tail classes with only a few instances. Humans, by contrast, effortlessly handle the long-tailed recognition challenge, since they can learn the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yingjun Du , Jiayi Shen , Xiantong Zhen , Cees G. M. Snoek

In real applications, object detectors based on deep networks still face challenges of the large domain gap between the labeled training data and unlabeled testing data. To reduce the gap, recent techniques are proposed by aligning the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Sanli Tang , Zhanzhan Cheng , Shiliang Pu , Dashan Guo , Yi Niu , Fei Wu

Federated learning (FL) allows distributed clients to collaboratively train a global model in a privacy-preserving manner. However, one major challenge is domain skew, where clients' data originating from diverse domains may hinder the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Huan Wang , Jun Shen , Jun Yan , Guansong Pang

The real-world data distribution is essentially long-tailed, which poses great challenge to the deep model. In this work, we propose a new method, Gradual Balanced Loss and Adaptive Feature Generator (GLAG) to alleviate imbalance. GLAG…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Zihan Zhang , Xiang Xiang

Long-tailed object detection faces great challenges because of its extremely imbalanced class distribution. Recent methods mainly focus on the classification bias and its loss function design, while ignoring the subtle influence of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Ke Zhu , Minghao Fu , Jie Shao , Tianyu Liu , Jianxin Wu

Long-tailed learning is considered to be an extremely challenging problem in data imbalance learning. It aims to train well-generalized models from a large number of images that follow a long-tailed class distribution. In the medical field,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-04 Lie Ju , Siyuan Yan , Yukun Zhou , Yang Nan , Xiaodan Xing , Peibo Duan , Zongyuan Ge

Racial bias is an important issue in biometric, but has not been thoroughly studied in deep face recognition. In this paper, we first contribute a dedicated dataset called Racial Faces in-the-Wild (RFW) database, on which we firmly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Mei Wang , Weihong Deng , Jiani Hu , Xunqiang Tao , Yaohai Huang

Learning generic and robust feature representations with data from multiple domains for the same problem is of great value, especially for the problems that have multiple datasets but none of them are large enough to provide abundant data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-27 Tong Xiao , Hongsheng Li , Wanli Ouyang , Xiaogang Wang

Domain generalization approaches aim to learn a domain invariant prediction model for unknown target domains from multiple training source domains with different distributions. Significant efforts have recently been committed to broad…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Mohammad Mahfujur Rahman , Clinton Fookes , Sridha Sridharan

Generalization under the distribution shift has been a great challenge in computer vision. The prevailing practice of directly employing the one-hot labels as the training targets in domain generalization~(DG) can lead to gradient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Shaocong Long , Qianyu Zhou , Chenhao Ying , Lizhuang Ma , Yuan Luo

We propose a new semi-supervised learning method on face-related tasks based on Multi-Task Learning (MTL) and data distillation. The proposed method exploits multiple datasets with different labels for different-but-related tasks such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Sepidehsadat Hosseini , Mohammad Amin Shabani , Nam Ik Cho