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Age estimation is an essential challenge in computer vision. With the advances of convolutional neural networks, the performance of age estimation has been dramatically improved. Existing approaches usually treat age estimation as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Yi Zhou , Heikki Huttunen , Tapio Elomaa

The age estimation task aims to use facial features to predict the age of people and is widely used in public security, marketing, identification, and other fields. However, the features are mainly concentrated in facial keypoints, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Yiping Zhang , Yuntao Shou , Tao Meng , Wei Ai , Keqin Li

Age estimation from facial images is typically cast as a label distribution learning or regression problem, since aging is a gradual progress. Its main challenge is the facial feature space w.r.t. ages is inhomogeneous, due to the large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Wei Shen , Yilu Guo , Yan Wang , Kai Zhao , Bo Wang , Alan Yuille

In face recognition, designing margin-based (e.g., angular, additive, additive angular margins) softmax loss functions plays an important role in learning discriminative features. However, these hand-crafted heuristic methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Xiaobo Wang , Shuo Wang , Cheng Chi , Shifeng Zhang , Tao Mei

The provision of social care applications is crucial for elderly people to improve their quality of life and enables operators to provide early interventions. Accurate predictions of user dropouts in healthy ageing applications are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Christos Chrysanthos Nikolaidis , Vasileios Perifanis , Nikolaos Pavlidis , Pavlos S. Efraimidis

Partial Multi-label Learning (PML) is a type of weakly supervised learning where each training instance corresponds to a set of candidate labels, among which only some are true. In this paper, we introduce \our{}, a novel probabilistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Łukasz Struski , Adam Pardyl , Jacek Tabor , Bartosz Zieliński

In this work, we address the challenging task of long-tailed image recognition. Previous long-tailed recognition methods commonly focus on the data augmentation or re-balancing strategy of the tail classes to give more attention to tail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Weide Liu , Zhonghua Wu , Yiming Wang , Henghui Ding , Fayao Liu , Jie Lin , Guosheng Lin

Multimodal representation learning seeks to create a unified representation space by integrating diverse data modalities to improve multimodal understanding. Traditional methods often depend on pairwise contrastive learning, which relies on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Xiaohao Liu , Xiaobo Xia , See-Kiong Ng , Tat-Seng Chua

In this work, we tackle the challenging problem of long-tailed image recognition. Previous long-tailed recognition approaches mainly focus on data augmentation or re-balancing strategies for the tail classes to give them more attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Weide Liu , Zhonghua Wu , Yiming Wang , Henghui Ding , Fayao Liu , Jie Lin , Guosheng Lin

The imbalance (or long-tail) is the nature of many real-world data distributions, which often induces the undesirable bias of deep classification models toward frequent classes, resulting in poor performance for tail classes. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Fudong Lin , Xu Yuan

Machine learning analysis of longitudinal neuroimaging data is typically based on supervised learning, which requires a large number of ground-truth labels to be informative. As ground-truth labels are often missing or expensive to obtain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Qingyu Zhao , Zixuan Liu , Ehsan Adeli , Kilian M. Pohl

This paper presents a novel approach combining convolutional layers (CLs) and large-margin metric learning for training supervised models on small datasets for texture classification. The core of such an approach is a loss function that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Jonathan de Matos , Luiz Eduardo Soares de Oliveira , Alceu de Souza Britto Junior , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

In class incremental learning (CIL) a model must learn new classes in a sequential manner without forgetting old ones. However, conventional CIL methods consider a balanced distribution for each new task, which ignores the prevalence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Xialei Liu , Yu-Song Hu , Xu-Sheng Cao , Andrew D. Bagdanov , Ke Li , Ming-Ming Cheng

Facial attributes (\eg, age and attractiveness) estimation performance has been greatly improved by using convolutional neural networks. However, existing methods have an inconsistency between the training objectives and the evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Bin-Bin Gao , Xin-Xin Liu , Hong-Yu Zhou , Jianxin Wu , Xin Geng

In this paper, we address the problem of apparent age estimation. Different from estimating the real age of individuals, in which each face image has a single age label, in this problem, face images have multiple age labels, corresponding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-10 Refik Can Malli , Mehmet Aygun , Hazim Kemal Ekenel

Various applications in different fields, such as gene expression analysis or computer vision, suffer from data sets with high-dimensional low-sample-size (HDLSS), which has posed significant challenges for standard statistical and modern…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Qingbo Yin , Ehsan Adeli , Liran Shen , Dinggang Shen

This paper serves as a survey of recent advances in large margin training and its theoretical foundations, mostly for (nonlinear) deep neural networks (DNNs) that are probably the most prominent machine learning models for large-scale data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Yiwen Guo , Changshui Zhang

Temporal action segmentation in untrimmed procedural videos aims to densely label frames into action classes. These videos inherently exhibit long-tailed distributions, where actions vary widely in frequency and duration. In temporal action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Zhanzhong Pang , Fadime Sener , Shrinivas Ramasubramanian , Angela Yao

Face recognition has made extraordinary progress owing to the advancement of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The central task of face recognition, including face verification and identification, involves face feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Hao Wang , Yitong Wang , Zheng Zhou , Xing Ji , Dihong Gong , Jingchao Zhou , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu

Existing learning models often utilise CT-scan images to predict lung diseases. These models are posed by high uncertainties that affect lung segmentation and visual feature learning. We introduce MARL, a novel Multimodal Attentional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Ali Hamdi , Amr Aboeleneen , Khaled Shaban