Learning from Random Subspace Exploration: Generalized Test-Time Augmentation with Self-supervised Distillation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01347v1
• Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2025 04:30:04 GMT
• Title: Learning from Random Subspace Exploration: Generalized Test-Time Augmentation with Self-supervised Distillation
• Authors: Andrei Jelea, Ahmed Nabil Belbachir, Marius Leordeanu,
• Abstract summary: Generalized Test-Time Augmentation (GTTA) is a highly effective method for improving the performance of a trained model.<n>We prove its effectiveness on the more specific real-world task of salmon segmentation and detection in low-visibility underwater videos.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: We introduce Generalized Test-Time Augmentation (GTTA), a highly effective method for improving the performance of a trained model, which unlike other existing Test-Time Augmentation approaches from the literature is general enough to be used off-the-shelf for many vision and non-vision tasks, such as classification, regression, image segmentation and object detection. By applying a new general data transformation, that randomly perturbs multiple times the PCA subspace projection of a test input, GTTA forms robust ensembles at test time in which, due to sound statistical properties, the structural and systematic noises in the initial input data is filtered out and final estimator errors are reduced. Different from other existing methods, we also propose a final self-supervised learning stage in which the ensemble output, acting as an unsupervised teacher, is used to train the initial single student model, thus reducing significantly the test time computational cost, at no loss in accuracy. Our tests and comparisons to strong TTA approaches and SoTA models on various vision and non-vision well-known datasets and tasks, such as image classification and segmentation, speech recognition and house price prediction, validate the generality of the proposed GTTA. Furthermore, we also prove its effectiveness on the more specific real-world task of salmon segmentation and detection in low-visibility underwater videos, for which we introduce DeepSalmon, the largest dataset of its kind in the literature.

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