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Deep-learning has proved in recent years to be a powerful tool for image analysis and is now widely used to segment both 2D and 3D medical images. Deep-learning segmentation frameworks rely not only on the choice of network architecture but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Carole H Sudre , Wenqi Li , Tom Vercauteren , Sébastien Ourselin , M. Jorge Cardoso

We propose a novel loss function that dynamically rescales the cross entropy based on prediction difficulty regarding a sample. Deep neural network architectures in image classification tasks struggle to disambiguate visually similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Serim Ryou , Seong-Gyun Jeong , Pietro Perona

We introduce a novel anchor-free contrastive learning (AFCL) method leveraging our proposed Similarity-Orthogonality (SimO) loss. Our approach minimizes a semi-metric discriminative loss function that simultaneously optimizes two key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Taha Bouhsine , Imad El Aaroussi , Atik Faysal , Wang Huaxia

A deep convolutional neural network (CNN) has been widely used in image classification and gives better classification accuracy than the other techniques. The softmax cross-entropy loss function is often used for classification tasks. There…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Motoshi Abe , Junichi Miyao , Takio Kurita

Learning discriminative image representations plays a vital role in long-tailed image classification because it can ease the classifier learning in imbalanced cases. Given the promising performance contrastive learning has shown recently in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Peng Wang , Kai Han , Xiu-Shen Wei , Lei Zhang , Lei Wang

State-of-the-art neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples; they can easily misclassify inputs that are imperceptibly different than their training and test data. In this work, we establish that the use of cross-entropy loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Kamil Nar , Orhan Ocal , S. Shankar Sastry , Kannan Ramchandran

Multi-domain image-to-image translation with conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can generate highly photo realistic images with desired target classes, yet these synthetic images have not always been helpful to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Suman Sapkota , Bidur Khanal , Binod Bhattarai , Bishesh Khanal , Tae-Kyun Kim

Face recognition has achieved great progress owing to the fast development of the deep neural network in the past a few years. As an important part of deep neural networks, a number of the loss functions have been proposed which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Xin Wei , Hui Wang , Bryan Scotney , Huan Wan

Deep metric learning has yielded impressive results in tasks such as clustering and image retrieval by leveraging neural networks to obtain highly discriminative feature embeddings, which can be used to group samples into different classes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Ismail Elezi , Sebastiano Vascon , Alessandro Torcinovich , Marcello Pelillo , Laura Leal-Taixe

As an emerging topic in face recognition, designing margin-based loss functions can increase the feature margin between different classes for enhanced discriminability. More recently, the idea of mining-based strategies is adopted to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Yuge Huang , Yuhan Wang , Ying Tai , Xiaoming Liu , Pengcheng Shen , Shaoxin Li , Jilin Li , Feiyue Huang

Recently, deep metric learning techniques received attention, as the learned distance representations are useful to capture the similarity relationship among samples and further improve the performance of various of supervised or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Zhiyuan Li , Anca Ralescu

Accurate image segmentation remains challenging, particularly in generating sharp, confident boundaries. While modern architectures have advanced the field, many of them still rely on standard loss functions like Cross-Entropy and Dice,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Adam Dawid Sztamborski , Raül Pérez-Gonzalo , Antonio Agudo

The classification loss functions used in deep neural network classifiers can be grouped into two categories based on maximizing the margin in either Euclidean or angular spaces. Euclidean distances between sample vectors are used during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Hakan Cevikalp , Hasan Saribas

We propose adversarial constrained-CNN loss, a new paradigm of constrained-CNN loss methods, for weakly supervised medical image segmentation. In the new paradigm, prior knowledge is encoded and depicted by reference masks, and is further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Pengyi Zhang , Yunxin Zhong , Xiaoqiong Li

This paper analyzes and compares different deep learning loss functions in the framework of multi-label remote sensing (RS) image scene classification problems. We consider seven loss functions: 1) cross-entropy loss; 2) focal loss; 3)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Hichame Yessou , Gencer Sumbul , Begüm Demir

Face recognition has witnessed significant progress due to the advances of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), the central task of which is how to improve the feature discrimination. To this end, several margin-based (\textit{e.g.},…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Xiaobo Wang , Shifeng Zhang , Shuo Wang , Tianyu Fu , Hailin Shi , Tao Mei

Training deep learning models for point cloud prediction tasks such as shape completion and generation depends critically on loss functions that measure discrepancies between predicted and ground-truth point sets. Commonly used functions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Sasan Sharifipour , Constantino Álvarez Casado , Mohammad Sabokrou , Miguel Bordallo López

Generative adversarial nets (GANs) are widely used to learn the data sampling process and their performance may heavily depend on the loss functions, given a limited computational budget. This study revisits MMD-GAN that uses the maximum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Wei Wang , Yuan Sun , Saman Halgamuge

Adversarial attacks exploit the vulnerabilities of convolutional neural networks by introducing imperceptible perturbations that lead to misclassifications, exposing weaknesses in feature representations and decision boundaries. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Longwei Wang , Navid Nayyem , Abdullah Rakin

Accelerated Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) image reconstruction remains a critical challenge due to the trade-off between scan time and image quality, particularly when generalizing across diverse acquisition settings. We propose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Kian Anvari Hamedani , Narges Razizadeh , Shahabedin Nabavi , Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam