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As litter pollution continues to rise globally, developing automated tools capable of detecting litter effectively remains a significant challenge. This study presents a novel approach that combines, for the first time, privileged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Matthias Bartolo , Konstantinos Makantasis , Dylan Seychell

Cross-entropy loss is the standard metric used to train classification models in deep learning and gradient boosting. It is well-known that this loss function fails to account for similarities between the different values of the target. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-16 Brian Lucena

Albeit achieving high predictive accuracy across many challenging computer vision problems, recent studies suggest that deep neural networks (DNNs) tend to make overconfident predictions, rendering them poorly calibrated. Most of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Bimsara Pathiraja , Malitha Gunawardhana , Muhammad Haris Khan

Deep learning approaches to object detection have achieved reliable detection of specific object classes in images. However, extending a model's detection capability to new object classes requires large amounts of annotated training data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Vikhyat Agarwal , Jiayi Cora Guo , Declan Hoban , Sissi Zhang , Nicholas Moran , Peter Cho , Srilakshmi Pattabiraman , Shantanu Joshi

Automatic segmentation methods are an important advancement in medical image analysis. Machine learning techniques, and deep neural networks in particular, are the state-of-the-art for most medical image segmentation tasks. Issues with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-25 Michael Yeung , Evis Sala , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Leonardo Rundo

Small Object Detection (SOD) poses significant challenges due to limited information and the model's low class prediction score. While Transformer-based detectors have shown promising performance, their potential for SOD remains largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Guiping Cao , Wenjian Huang , Xiangyuan Lan , Jianguo Zhang , Dongmei Jiang , Yaowei Wang

The counting task, which plays a fundamental role in numerous applications (e.g., crowd counting, traffic statistics), aims to predict the number of objects with various densities. Existing object counting tasks are designed for a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Shengqin Jiang , Qing Wang , Fengna Cheng , Yuankai Qi , Qingshan Liu

We study anomaly detection for the case when the normal class consists of more than one object category. This is an obvious generalization of the standard one-class anomaly detection problem. However, we show that jointly using multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Suresh Singh , Minwei Luo , Yu Li

Class imbalance, which is also called long-tailed distribution, is a common problem in classification tasks based on machine learning. If it happens, the minority data will be overwhelmed by the majority, which presents quite a challenge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Jia-Chen Zhao

Classification on imbalanced datasets is a challenging task in real-world applications. Training conventional classification algorithms directly by minimizing classification error in this scenario can compromise model performance for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Xiangrui Li , Dongxiao Zhu

Despite powering sensitive systems like autonomous vehicles, object detection remains fairly brittle in part due to annotation errors that plague most real-world training datasets. We propose ObjectLab, a straightforward algorithm to detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ulyana Tkachenko , Aditya Thyagarajan , Jonas Mueller

Object detection models, a prominent class of machine learning algorithms, aim to identify and precisely locate objects in images or videos. However, this task might yield uneven performances sometimes caused by the objects sizes and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Ahmed Ben Saad , Gabriele Facciolo , Axel Davy

Recent developments in the field of deep learning for 3D data have demonstrated promising potential for end-to-end learning directly from point clouds. However, many real-world point clouds contain a large class im-balance due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 David Griffiths , Jan Boehm

Object detection is the identification of an object in the image along with its localisation and classification. It has wide spread applications and is a critical component for vision based software systems. This paper seeks to perform a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Karanbir Singh Chahal , Kuntal Dey

As a core problem in computer vision, the performance of object detection has improved drastically in the past few years. Despite their impressive performance, object detectors suffer from a lack of interpretability. Visualization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Ang Cao , Justin Johnson

Class incremental learning aims to solve a problem that arises when continuously adding unseen class instances to an existing model This approach has been extensively studied in the context of image classification; however its applicability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Junsu Kim , Sumin Hong , Chanwoo Kim , Jihyeon Kim , Yihalem Yimolal Tiruneh , Jeongwan On , Jihyun Song , Sunhwa Choi , Seungryul Baek

Oriented object detection is a fundamental yet challenging task in remote sensing (RS), aiming to locate and classify objects with arbitrary orientations. Recent advancements in deep learning have significantly enhanced the capabilities of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Kun Wang , Zi Wang , Zhang Li , Ang Su , Xichao Teng , Erting Pan , Minhao Liu , Qifeng Yu

Object detection-the computer vision task dealing with detecting instances of objects of a certain class (e.g., 'car', 'plane', etc.) in images-attracted a lot of attention from the community during the last 5 years. This strong interest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Shivang Agarwal , Jean Ogier Du Terrail , Frédéric Jurie

Despite their success for object detection, convolutional neural networks are ill-equipped for incremental learning, i.e., adapting the original model trained on a set of classes to additionally detect objects of new classes, in the absence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Konstantin Shmelkov , Cordelia Schmid , Karteek Alahari

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