arXiv:2509.02351cs.CVcs.AI2025-09

用动态标签分布修正噪声,提升有序图像分类的准确率。

Ordinal Adaptive Correction: A Data-Centric Approach to Ordinal Image Classification with Noisy Labels

  • 基于标签分布学习,动态调整每张图的标签均值与方差。
  • 在Adience数据集40%噪声下,误差从0.86降至0.62。
  • 适合处理标签模糊或带噪声的有序分类任务,如年龄估计、病程分级。

标注数据是训练计算机视觉监督模型的基础,但有序图像分类中类别边界常模糊,标注易出错。本文提出一种数据驱动的方法——ORDAC(Ordinal Adaptive Correction),用于自适应修正标签噪声。该方法利用标签分布学习(LDL)建模标签的固有模糊性与不确定性,在训练中动态调整每个样本的标签分布均值和标准差,不丢弃可疑样本,而是尝试修正并充分利用全部数据。在年龄估计(Adience)和糖尿病视网膜病变严重程度检测(Diabetic Retinopathy)数据集上,不同非对称高斯噪声场景下测试表明,ORDAC及其扩展版本(ORDAC_C、ORDAC_R)显著提升模型性能。例如在Adience数据集40%噪声下,ORDAC_R将平均绝对误差从0.86降至0.62,召回率从0.37升至0.49。该方法也有效纠正了原始数据中的内在噪声,证明基于标签分布的自适应修正能增强有序分类模型在噪声数据下的鲁棒性与准确性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Labeled data is a fundamental component in training supervised deep learning models for computer vision tasks. However, the labeling process, especially for ordinal image classification where class boundaries are often ambiguous, is prone to error and noise. Such label noise can significantly degrade the performance and reliability of machine learning models. This paper addresses the problem of detecting and correcting label noise in ordinal image classification tasks. To this end, a novel data-centric method called ORDinal Adaptive Correction (ORDAC) is proposed for adaptive correction of noisy labels. The proposed approach leverages the capabilities of Label Distribution Learning (LDL) to model the inherent ambiguity and uncertainty present in ordinal labels. During training, ORDAC dynamically adjusts the mean and standard deviation of the label distribution for each sample. Rather than discarding potentially noisy samples, this approach aims to correct them and make optimal use of the entire training dataset. The effectiveness of the proposed method is evaluated on benchmark datasets for age estimation (Adience) and disease severity detection (Diabetic Retinopathy) under various asymmetric Gaussian noise scenarios. Results show that ORDAC and its extended versions (ORDAC_C and ORDAC_R) lead to significant improvements in model performance. For instance, on the Adience dataset with 40% noise, ORDAC_R reduced the mean absolute error from 0.86 to 0.62 and increased the recall metric from 0.37 to 0.49. The method also demonstrated its effectiveness in correcting intrinsic noise present in the original datasets. This research indicates that adaptive label correction using label distributions is an effective strategy to enhance the robustness and accuracy of ordinal classification models in the presence of noisy data.

有序分类标签噪声数据驱动标签分布

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