解决年龄估计中的长尾偏差问题,通过图网络与动态边界优化提升准确性。
GroupFace: Imbalanced Age Estimation Based on Multi-hop Attention Graph Convolutional Network and Group-aware Margin Optimization
- 构建多跳注意力图卷积网络捕捉人脸跨距离特征交互
- 在多个基准数据集上实现优于现有方法的准确率
- 适合关注长尾分布下公平性与精度平衡的研究者
随着计算机视觉的发展,年龄估计的整体准确率显著提升。然而,由于主流方法未考虑年龄数据集中的类别不平衡问题,对长尾群体识别存在显著偏差。为实现长尾群体的高质量学习,关键在于特征提取器能学习不同群体的判别特征,分类器则需基于这些特征提供适当且无偏的分类边界。为此,本文提出一种新型协同学习框架 GroupFace,融合多跳注意力图卷积网络与基于强化学习的动态群体感知边界策略。具体地,设计增强型多跳注意力图卷积网络,能够捕捉不同距离邻接节点间的交互,融合局部与全局信息,建模面部深层老化过程,并探索不同群体的多样化表征。此外,为进一步缓解类别不平衡问题,提出基于强化学习的动态群体感知边界策略,将样本分为四类年龄组,利用马尔可夫决策过程寻找各组最优边界。在智能体引导下,同时减少特征表示偏差与分类边界差异,平衡类间可分性与类内紧凑性。联合优化后,该架构在多个年龄估计基准数据集上表现优异。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
With the recent advances in computer vision, age estimation has significantly improved in overall accuracy. However, owing to the most common methods do not take into account the class imbalance problem in age estimation datasets, they suffer from a large bias in recognizing long-tailed groups. To achieve high-quality imbalanced learning in long-tailed groups, the dominant solution lies in that the feature extractor learns the discriminative features of different groups and the classifier is able to provide appropriate and unbiased margins for different groups by the discriminative features. Therefore, in this novel, we propose an innovative collaborative learning framework (GroupFace) that integrates a multi-hop attention graph convolutional network and a dynamic group-aware margin strategy based on reinforcement learning. Specifically, to extract the discriminative features of different groups, we design an enhanced multi-hop attention graph convolutional network. This network is capable of capturing the interactions of neighboring nodes at different distances, fusing local and global information to model facial deep aging, and exploring diverse representations of different groups. In addition, to further address the class imbalance problem, we design a dynamic group-aware margin strategy based on reinforcement learning to provide appropriate and unbiased margins for different groups. The strategy divides the sample into four age groups and considers identifying the optimum margins for various age groups by employing a Markov decision process. Under the guidance of the agent, the feature representation bias and the classification margin deviation between different groups can be reduced simultaneously, balancing inter-class separability and intra-class proximity. After joint optimization, our architecture achieves excellent performance on several age estimation benchmark datasets.
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