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48 results for large-scale image classification

New DAM method improves AUC scores in medical image classification.

problem Maximizing AUC in large-scale medical image classification.
method Proposes AUC margin loss for robust optimization, conducts extensive empirical studies.
result Improves performance on four medical image classification tasks, achieving 1st place on Stanford CheXpert.

HET-XL improves heteroscedastic classifiers for large-scale image classification.

problem Scaling heteroscedastic classifiers to handle large numbers of classes and tuning the temperature hyperparameter.
method HET-XL, a heteroscedastic classifier with independent parameter count from the number of classes, learns the temperature hyperparameter directly from training data.
result HET-XL requires 14X fewer additional parameters and performs better than baseline heteroscedastic classifiers on large image classification datasets.

This research shows unsupervised GANs can perform object segmentation without labels.

problem Performing object segmentation without pixel or image-level labels.
method Used large-scale unsupervised GAN models to differentiate foreground from background.
result Demonstrated high-quality saliency masks and new state-of-the-art performance.

Ethnic group classification is a well-researched problem, which has been pursued mainly during the past two decades via traditional approaches of image processing and machine learning. In this paper, we propose a method of classifying an image face into an ethnic group by applying transfer learning from a previously tr…

2019-12-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved image classification accuracy with a probabilistic model of label noise.

problem Noisy labels in large-scale image classification datasets.
method A probabilistic model using a multivariate Normal distribution on the final hidden layer of a neural network, capturing input-dependent label noise.
result Significantly improved accuracy on various datasets compared to standard methods.

Modeling data with linear combinations of a few elements from a learned dictionary has been the focus of much recent research in machine learning, neuroscience and signal processing. For signals such as natural images that admit such sparse representations, it is now well established that these models are well suited t…

2010-09-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have proven very effective in image classification and show promise for audio. We use various CNN architectures to classify the soundtracks of a dataset of 70M training videos (5.24 million hours) with 30,871 video-level labels. We examine fully connected Deep Neural Networks (DNNs)…

2016-09-29abs ↗pdf ↗

There is growing interest in multi-label image classification due to its critical role in web-based image analytics-based applications, such as large-scale image retrieval and browsing. Matrix completion has recently been introduced as a method for transductive (semi-supervised) multi-label classification, and has seve…

2019-04-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Learning image representations to capture fine-grained semantics has been a challenging and important task enabling many applications such as image search and clustering. In this paper, we present Graph-Regularized Image Semantic Embedding (Graph-RISE), a large-scale neural graph learning framework that allows us to tr…

2019-02-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Data-dependent hashing has recently attracted attention due to being able to support efficient retrieval and storage of high-dimensional data such as documents, images, and videos. In this paper, we propose a novel learning-based hashing method called "Supervised Discrete Hashing with Relaxation" (SDHR) based on "Super…

2019-04-07abs ↗pdf ↗

A new SSL method improves medical image classification using global latent mixing.

problem Costly annotation of large-scale medical image data sets.
method Linear mixing of labeled and unlabeled data in both input and latent space.
result Improved performance in semi-supervised classification of thoracic disease and skin lesion.

The rapid development of computer hardware and Internet technology makes large scale data dependent models computationally tractable, and opens a bright avenue for annotating images through innovative machine learning algorithms. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has consequently received intensive attention in recent yea…

2019-04-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Content based image retrieval, a technique which uses visual contents of image to search images from large scale image databases according to users' interests. This paper provides a comprehensive survey on recent technology used in the area of content based face image retrieval. Nowadays digital devices and photo shari…

2014-02-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper tackles label noise in large datasets, purifying noisy data with a nonparametric framework.

problem Label noise in large-scale datasets with coarse labels.
method Develops a model-agnostic nonparametric framework for classification.
result Framework purifies noisy data using a small clean dataset and manages ambiguous samples.

New method trains deep ResNets without normalization, achieving state-of-the-art performance.

problem Training deep ResNets without normalization layers leads to instability and lower accuracy.
method Adaptive gradient clipping and Normalizer-Free ResNets design.
result Normalizer-Free ResNets achieve 86.5% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet, matching EfficientNet-B7.

Deep neural networks (DNNs) trained on large-scale datasets have exhibited significant performance in image classification. Many large-scale datasets are collected from websites, however they tend to contain inaccurate labels that are termed as noisy labels. Training on such noisy labeled datasets causes performance de…

2018-03-30abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method compares image classifiers using adaptive sampling of natural images.

problem Evaluation of image classifiers on small, fixed test sets may not generalize to real-world images.
method Adaptive sampling from a large corpus of unlabeled images to maximize classifier discrepancies measured by WordNet hierarchy.
result Human labeling of model-dependent image sets reveals relative classifier performance.

Transfer learning from natural image datasets, particularly ImageNet, using standard large models and corresponding pretrained weights has become a de-facto method for deep learning applications to medical imaging. However, there are fundamental differences in data sizes, features and task specifications between natura…

2019-02-14abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper introduces a method to make deep neural networks more robust to adversarial attacks.

problem Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, leading to incorrect classifications.
method Introduces sensible adversarial learning to balance robustness and natural accuracy.
result Demonstrates that the Bayes classifier is the most robust multi-class classifier under sensible adversarial learning.

RevDEQs improve performance on tasks with exact gradients and fewer function evaluations.

problem Inexact gradient calculation in DEQs leads to unstable training and requires regularisation or many function evaluations.
method Introduce Reversible Deep Equilibrium Models (RevDEQs) that allow for exact gradient calculation, no regularisation, and far fewer function evaluations.
result RevDEQs significantly improve performance on language modelling and image classification tasks.

Deep-learning method improves hypothesis testing for independence.

problem Improving hypothesis testing for independence using deep learning.
method Proposes deep-testing, a novel procedure that uses a deep neural network to distinguish between data generated under and outside a given statistical model.
result Deep-testing achieves the highest overall power against nineteen competing methods across various dependence structures.

ZegOT uses optimal transport to zero-shot segment images with text prompts.

problem Zero-shot semantic segmentation with limited image-text alignment knowledge.
method ZegOT uses optimal transport to match multiple text prompts with frozen image embeddings.
result ZegOT achieves state-of-the-art performance in zero-shot semantic segmentation.

A new large-scale tabular benchmark for Learning from Label Proportions.

problem Lack of a large-scale open benchmark for tabular Learning from Label Proportions.
method Proposed LLP-Bench, a suite of 70 datasets (62 feature bag and 8 random bag) from real-world tabular data.
result Demonstrated the effectiveness of 9 SOTA and popular tabular LLP techniques on 62 feature bag datasets.

Paper presents an efficient algorithm for learning minimax risk classifiers with large-scale data.

problem Efficient learning of minimax risk classifiers for large-scale data with multiple classes.
method Combination of constraint and column generation for efficient learning.
result 10x speedup for general large-scale data and 100x speedup with many classes.

Proposes feature conformal prediction for broader application in semantic feature spaces.

problem Establishing valid prediction intervals in semantic feature spaces.
method Extends conformal prediction to semantic feature spaces using deep representation learning.
result Feature conformal prediction outperforms regular conformal prediction under mild assumptions.