A Modular System for Enhanced Robustness of Multimedia Understanding Networks via Deep Parametric Estimation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18402v2
• Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 09:14:17 GMT
• Title: A Modular System for Enhanced Robustness of Multimedia Understanding Networks via Deep Parametric Estimation
• Authors: Francesco Barbato, Umberto Michieli, Mehmet Kerim Yucel, Pietro Zanuttigh, Mete Ozay
• Abstract summary: In multimedia understanding tasks, corrupted samples pose a critical challenge, because when fed to machine learning models they lead to performance degradation. We propose SyMPIE to enhance input data for robust downstream multimedia understanding with minimal computational cost. Our key insight is that most input corruptions can be modeled through global operations on color channels of images or spatial filters with small kernels.
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• Abstract: In multimedia understanding tasks, corrupted samples pose a critical challenge, because when fed to machine learning models they lead to performance degradation. In the past, three groups of approaches have been proposed to handle noisy data: i) enhancer and denoiser modules to improve the quality of the noisy data, ii) data augmentation approaches, and iii) domain adaptation strategies. All the aforementioned approaches come with drawbacks that limit their applicability; the first has high computational costs and requires pairs of clean-corrupted data for training, while the others only allow deployment of the same task/network they were trained on (\ie, when upstream and downstream task/network are the same). In this paper, we propose SyMPIE to solve these shortcomings. To this end, we design a small, modular, and efficient (just 2GFLOPs to process a Full HD image) system to enhance input data for robust downstream multimedia understanding with minimal computational cost. Our SyMPIE is pre-trained on an upstream task/network that should not match the downstream ones and does not need paired clean-corrupted samples. Our key insight is that most input corruptions found in real-world tasks can be modeled through global operations on color channels of images or spatial filters with small kernels. We validate our approach on multiple datasets and tasks, such as image classification (on ImageNetC, ImageNetC-Bar, VizWiz, and a newly proposed mixed corruption benchmark named ImageNetC-mixed) and semantic segmentation (on Cityscapes, ACDC, and DarkZurich) with consistent improvements of about 5\% relative accuracy gain across the board. The code of our approach and the new ImageNetC-mixed benchmark will be made available upon publication.

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