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We propose a new strategy to improve the accuracy and robustness of image classification. First, we train a baseline CNN model. Then, we identify challenging regions in the feature space by identifying all misclassified samples, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Fadoua Khmaissia , Hichem Frigui

Class imbalance in deep neural networks (DNNs) has witnessed a rapid increase in research attention in recent years. However, the varying accounts of the reasons behind the poor performance of DNN on imbalance data in pertinent literature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ismail B. Mustapha , Shafaatunnur Hasan , Sunday O. Olatunji , Hatem S. Y. Nabus

Class-imbalanced data, in which some classes contain far more samples than others, is ubiquitous in real-world applications. Standard techniques for handling class-imbalance usually work by training on a re-weighted loss or on re-balanced…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Arpit Bansal , Micah Goldblum , Valeriia Cherepanova , Avi Schwarzschild , C. Bayan Bruss , Tom Goldstein

In this study, we systematically investigate the impact of class imbalance on classification performance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and compare frequently used methods to address the issue. Class imbalance is a common problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Mateusz Buda , Atsuto Maki , Maciej A. Mazurowski

We describe a new class of subsampling techniques for CNNs, termed multisampling, that significantly increases the amount of information kept by feature maps through subsampling layers. One version of our method, which we call checkered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Shayan Sadigh , Pradeep Sen

In fine-grained road scene understanding, semantic segmentation plays a crucial role in enabling vehicles to perceive and comprehend their surroundings. By assigning a specific class label to each pixel in an image, it allows for precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yuting Hong , Yongkang Wu , Hui Xiao , Huazheng Hao , Xiaojie Qiu , Baochen Yao , Chengbin Peng

Neural networks trained with class-imbalanced data are known to perform poorly on minor classes of scarce training data. Several recent works attribute this to over-fitting to minor classes. In this paper, we provide a novel explanation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Han-Jia Ye , De-Chuan Zhan , Wei-Lun Chao

The natural world is long-tailed: rare classes are observed orders of magnitudes less frequently than common ones, leading to highly-imbalanced data where rare classes can have only handfuls of examples. Learning from few examples is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Edoardo Lanzini , Sara Beery

A number of classification problems need to deal with data imbalance between classes. Often it is desired to have a high recall on the minority class while maintaining a high precision on the majority class. In this paper, we review a…

Applications · Statistics 2016-08-23 Ajinkya More

Some real-world domains, such as Agriculture and Healthcare, comprise early-stage disease indications whose recording constitutes a rare event, and yet, whose precise detection at that stage is critical. In this type of highly imbalanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Veysel Kocaman , Ofer M. Shir , Thomas Bäck

As part of autonomous car driving systems, semantic segmentation is an essential component to obtain a full understanding of the car's environment. One difficulty, that occurs while training neural networks for this purpose, is class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Robin Chan , Matthias Rottmann , Fabian Hüger , Peter Schlicht , Hanno Gottschalk

With the rapid growth of memory and computing power, datasets are becoming increasingly complex and imbalanced. This is especially severe in the context of clinical data, where there may be one rare event for many cases in the majority…

The effectiveness of machine learning models, particularly in unbalanced classification tasks, is often hindered by the failure to differentiate between critical instances near the decision boundary and redundant samples concentrated in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Samir Brahim Belhaouari , Yunis Carreon Kahalan , Humaira Shaffique , Ismael Belhaouari , Ashhadul Islam

Deep neural networks may perform poorly when training datasets are heavily class-imbalanced. Recently, two-stage methods decouple representation learning and classifier learning to improve performance. But there is still the vital issue of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Zhisheng Zhong , Jiequan Cui , Shu Liu , Jiaya Jia

In predictive tasks, real-world datasets often present different degrees of imbalanced (i.e., long-tailed or skewed) distributions. While the majority (the head) classes have sufficient samples, the minority (the tail) classes can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Chongsheng Zhang , Paolo Soda , Jingjun Bi , Gaojuan Fan , George Almpanidis , Salvador Garcia

Training an effective video action recognition model poses significant computational challenges, particularly under limited resource budgets. Current methods primarily aim to either reduce model size or utilize pre-trained models, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Harry Cheng , Yangyang Guo , Liqiang Nie , Zhiyong Cheng , Mohan Kankanhalli

We reduce training time in convolutional networks (CNNs) with a method that, for some of the mini-batches: a) scales down the resolution of input images via downsampling, and b) reduces the forward pass operations via pooling on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Zissis Poulos , Ali Nouri , Andreas Moshovos

Accurate vehicle type recognition underpins intelligent transportation and logistics, but severe class imbalance in public datasets suppresses performance on rare categories. We curate a 16-class corpus (~47k images) by merging Kaggle,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Abu Hanif Muhammad Syarubany

Conventional image classifiers are trained by randomly sampling mini-batches of images. To achieve state-of-the-art performance, practitioners use sophisticated data augmentation schemes to expand the amount of training data available for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Renkun Ni , Micah Goldblum , Amr Sharaf , Kezhi Kong , Tom Goldstein

The purpose of training neural networks is to achieve high generalization performance on unseen inputs. However, when trained on imbalanced datasets, a model's prediction tends to favor majority classes over minority classes, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Hiroaki Aizawa , Yuta Naito , Kohei Fukuda