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A Visual Inductive Priors Framework for Data-Efficient Image Classification

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State-of-the-art classifiers rely heavily on large-scale datasets, such as ImageNet, JFT-300M, MSCOCO, Open Images, etc. Besides, the performance may decrease significantly because of insufficient learning on a handful of samples. We present Visual Inductive Priors Framework (VIPF), a framework that can learn classifiers from scratch. VIPF can maximize the effectiveness of limited data. In this work, we propose a novel neural network architecture: DSK-net, which is very effective in training from small data sets. With more discriminative feature extracted from DSK-net, overfitting of network is alleviated. Furthermore, a loss function based on positive class as well as an induced hierarchy are also applied to further improve the VIPF’s capability of learning from scratch. Finally, we won the 1st Place in VIPriors image classification competition.

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Sun, P., Jin, X., Su, W., He, Y., Xue, H., Lu, Q. (2020). A Visual Inductive Priors Framework for Data-Efficient Image Classification. In: Bartoli, A., Fusiello, A. (eds) Computer Vision – ECCV 2020 Workshops. ECCV 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12536. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66096-3_35

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