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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

Class imbalance is a common problem in the case of real-world object detection and classification tasks. Data of some classes is abundant making them an over-represented majority, and data of other classes is scarce, making them an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Salman H. Khan , Munawar Hayat , Mohammed Bennamoun , Ferdous Sohel , Roberto Togneri

The highest accuracy object detectors to date are based on a two-stage approach popularized by R-CNN, where a classifier is applied to a sparse set of candidate object locations. In contrast, one-stage detectors that are applied over a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Tsung-Yi Lin , Priya Goyal , Ross Girshick , Kaiming He , Piotr Dollár

Expert systems often operate in domains characterized by class-imbalanced tabular data, where detecting rare but critical instances is essential for safety and reliability. While conventional approaches, such as cost-sensitive learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Md Abrar Jahin , Adiba Abid , M. F. Mridha

Object detection is an important task in computer vision which serves a lot of real-world applications such as autonomous driving, surveillance and robotics. Along with the rapid thrive of large-scale data, numerous state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Trong Huy Phan , Kazuma Yamamoto

Retinal fundus images provide valuable insights into the human eye's interior structure and crucial features, such as blood vessels, optic disk, macula, and fovea. However, accurate segmentation of retinal blood vessels can be challenging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Atifa Kalsoom , M. A. Iftikhar , Amjad Ali , Zubair Shah , Shidin Balakrishnan , Hazrat Ali

Real-world imagery is often characterized by a significant imbalance of the number of images per class, leading to long-tailed distributions. An effective and simple approach to long-tailed visual recognition is to learn feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Ahmet Iscen , André Araujo , Boqing Gong , Cordelia Schmid

Previous studies dominantly target at self-supervised learning on real-valued networks and have achieved many promising results. However, on the more challenging binary neural networks (BNNs), this task has not yet been fully explored in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Zhiqiang Shen , Zechun Liu , Jie Qin , Lei Huang , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Marios Savvides

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) do not have a predictable recognition behavior with respect to the input resolution change. This prevents the feasibility of deployment on different input image resolutions for a specific model. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Duo Li , Anbang Yao , Qifeng Chen

Normalization layers are essential in a Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN). Various normalization methods have been proposed. The statistics used to normalize the feature maps can be computed at batch, channel, or instance level.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-27 Xiao-Yun Zhou , Peichao Li , Zhao-Yang Wang , Guang-Zhong Yang

In the last decade, Convolutional Neural Network with a multi-layer architecture has advanced rapidly. However, training its complex network is very space-consuming, since a lot of intermediate data are preserved across layers, especially…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Zhigang Wang , Hangyu Yang , Ning Wang , Chuanfei Xu , Jie Nie , Zhiqiang Wei , Yu Gu , Ge Yu

Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive performance on downstream tasks through in-context learning (ICL), which heavily relies on the demonstrations selected from annotated datasets. However, these datasets often exhibit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Hongfu Gao , Feipeng Zhang , Hao Zeng , Deyu Meng , Bingyi Jing , Hongxin Wei

Imbalanced node classification in graph neural networks (GNNs) happens when some labels are much more common than others, which causes the model to learn unfairly and perform badly on the less common classes. To solve this problem, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Abdul Joseph Fofanah , Lian Wen , David Chen , Shaoyang Zhang

Convolutional neural networks have enabled major progresses in addressing pixel-level prediction tasks such as semantic segmentation, depth estimation, surface normal prediction and so on, benefiting from their powerful capabilities in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Guanglei Yang , Paolo Rota , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Dan Xu , Mingli Ding , Elisa Ricci

Machine learning offers potential solutions to current issues in industrial systems in areas such as quality control and predictive maintenance, but also faces unique barriers in industrial applications. An ongoing challenge is extreme…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Lesley Wheat , Martin v. Mohrenschildt , Saeid Habibi

Porting state of the art deep learning algorithms to resource constrained compute platforms (e.g. VR, AR, wearables) is extremely challenging. We propose a fast, compact, and accurate model for convolutional neural networks that enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Hessam Bagherinezhad , Mohammad Rastegari , Ali Farhadi

Continual learning entails learning a sequence of tasks and balancing their knowledge appropriately. With limited access to old training samples, much of the current work in deep neural networks has focused on overcoming catastrophic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Yilin Lyu , Liyuan Wang , Xingxing Zhang , Zicheng Sun , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Liping Jing

Recent studies indicate that deep neural networks degrade in generalization performance under noisy supervision. Existing methods focus on isolating clean subsets or correcting noisy labels, facing limitations such as high computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Kuan Zhang , Chengliang Chai , Jingzhe Xu , Chi Zhang , Han Han , Ye Yuan , Guoren Wang , Lei Cao

The class imbalance problem in deep learning has been explored in several studies, but there has yet to be a systematic analysis of this phenomenon in object detection. Here, we present comprehensive analyses and experiments of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Hanxue Gu , Haoyu Dong , Nicholas Konz , Maciej A. Mazurowski

Instance-level Image Retrieval (IIR), or simply Instance Retrieval, deals with the problem of finding all the images within an dataset that contain a query instance (e.g. an object). This paper makes the first attempt that tackles this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Tao Wu , Tie Luo , Donald Wunsch