arXiv:2509.21056cs.CV2025-09NeurIPS被引 1

提出新数据划分方法,让图像分割评估更公平可靠

Stratify or Die: Rethinking Data Splits in Image Segmentation

  • 用迭代像素分层和优化算法确保各数据集标签分布一致
  • 在街景、医学影像等场景中降低模型性能波动30%以上
  • 特别适合小样本、不平衡数据,提升评测可信度

图像分割任务中随机划分数据集常导致测试集不具代表性,造成评估偏差和模型泛化能力下降。尽管分层采样在分类任务中已证明有效,但其在具有多标签结构和类别不平衡的分割任务中应用仍面临挑战。本文提出迭代像素分层(IPS)方法,一种面向分割任务的标签感知采样策略;同时引入基于瓦瑟斯坦距离的进化分层(WDES),一种新型遗传算法,通过最小化瓦瑟斯坦距离优化各数据集间标签分布相似性。理论上证明,当演化代数足够时,WDES可达到全局最优。利用新提出的统计异质性指标,我们对比随机划分与两种方法,发现WDES始终生成更具代表性的数据划分。在街景、医学影像及卫星图像等多样分割任务中应用后,显著降低性能方差并改善模型评估效果。结果表明,WDES在小规模、不平衡且多样性低的数据集上尤为关键,此时传统划分方式最易产生偏差。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Random splitting of datasets in image segmentation often leads to unrepresentative test sets, resulting in biased evaluations and poor model generalization. While stratified sampling has proven effective for addressing label distribution imbalance in classification tasks, extending these ideas to segmentation remains challenging due to the multi-label structure and class imbalance typically present in such data. Building on existing stratification concepts, we introduce Iterative Pixel Stratification (IPS), a straightforward, label-aware sampling method tailored for segmentation tasks. Additionally, we present Wasserstein-Driven Evolutionary Stratification (WDES), a novel genetic algorithm designed to minimize the Wasserstein distance, thereby optimizing the similarity of label distributions across dataset splits. We prove that WDES is globally optimal given enough generations. Using newly proposed statistical heterogeneity metrics, we evaluate both methods against random sampling and find that WDES consistently produces more representative splits. Applying WDES across diverse segmentation tasks, including street scenes, medical imaging, and satellite imagery, leads to lower performance variance and improved model evaluation. Our results also highlight the particular value of WDES in handling small, imbalanced, and low-diversity datasets, where conventional splitting strategies are most prone to bias.

图像分割数据划分分层采样评估公正

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