Calibrating Class Activation Maps for Long-Tailed Visual Recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12757v1
• Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2021 05:45:03 GMT
• Title: Calibrating Class Activation Maps for Long-Tailed Visual Recognition
• Authors: Chi Zhang, Guosheng Lin, Lvlong Lai, Henghui Ding, Qingyao Wu
• Abstract summary: We present two effective modifications of CNNs to improve network learning from long-tailed distribution. First, we present a Class Activation Map (CAMC) module to improve the learning and prediction of network classifiers. Second, we investigate the use of normalized classifiers for representation learning in long-tailed problems.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Real-world visual recognition problems often exhibit long-tailed distributions, where the amount of data for learning in different categories shows significant imbalance. Standard classification models learned on such data distribution often make biased predictions towards the head classes while generalizing poorly to the tail classes. In this paper, we present two effective modifications of CNNs to improve network learning from long-tailed distribution. First, we present a Class Activation Map Calibration (CAMC) module to improve the learning and prediction of network classifiers, by enforcing network prediction based on important image regions. The proposed CAMC module highlights the correlated image regions across data and reinforces the representations in these areas to obtain a better global representation for classification. Furthermore, we investigate the use of normalized classifiers for representation learning in long-tailed problems. Our empirical study demonstrates that by simply scaling the outputs of the classifier with an appropriate scalar, we can effectively improve the classification accuracy on tail classes without losing the accuracy of head classes. We conduct extensive experiments to validate the effectiveness of our design and we set new state-of-the-art performance on five benchmarks, including ImageNet-LT, Places-LT, iNaturalist 2018, CIFAR10-LT, and CIFAR100-LT.

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