通过概率证据传播,提升噪声标签下行人重识别的可靠性。
From Calibration to Refinement: Seeking Certainty via Probabilistic Evidence Propagation for Noisy-Label Person Re-Identification
- 两阶段框架:先校准后精炼,打破Softmax固有偏见。
- 新指标CAM区分真实难样本与错误标签,避免误删关键数据。
- 动态加权机制COSW让可信样本主导模型更新,适合低质量数据场景。
在非受限环境下对鲁棒行人重识别的需求日益增长,但从含噪声标签和稀疏身份样本的数据集学习仍是重大挑战。现有方法多依赖基于Softmax输出的损失修正或样本选择策略,但存在两大缺陷:1)Softmax具有平移不变性,导致对错误标签产生过度自信且不可靠的预测;2)传统小损失样本选择常误删对学习判别特征至关重要的难正样本。为此,本文提出校准到精炼(CARE)方法,一种通过概率证据传播寻求确定性的两阶段框架。校准阶段引入概率证据校准(PEC),通过在相似度函数中注入可学习参数,消除Softmax的平移不变性,并使用证据校准损失缓解错误标签上的过自信问题。精炼阶段设计证据传播精炼(EPR),包含两个步骤:首先提出复合角度边界(CAM)度量,在超球面空间中精确区分真实但难学的正样本与误标样本;其次提出确定性导向球面加权(COSW),根据CAM动态分配样本重要性,确保干净样本驱动模型更新。在Market1501、DukeMTMC-ReID和CUHK03数据集上,无论随机噪声还是模式化噪声下,实验均表明CARE性能具有竞争力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
With the increasing demand for robust person Re-ID in unconstrained environments, learning from datasets with noisy labels and sparse per-identity samples remains a critical challenge. Existing noise-robust person Re-ID methods primarily rely on loss-correction or sample-selection strategies using softmax outputs. However, these methods suffer from two key limitations: 1) Softmax exhibits translation invariance, leading to over-confident and unreliable predictions on corrupted labels. 2) Conventional sample selection based on small-loss criteria often discards valuable hard positives that are crucial for learning discriminative features. To overcome these issues, we propose the CAlibration-to-REfinement (CARE) method, a two-stage framework that seeks certainty through probabilistic evidence propagation from calibration to refinement. In the calibration stage, we propose the probabilistic evidence calibration (PEC) that dismantles softmax translation invariance by injecting adaptive learnable parameters into the similarity function, and employs an evidential calibration loss to mitigate overconfidence on mislabeled samples. In the refinement stage, we design the evidence propagation refinement (EPR) that can more accurately distinguish between clean and noisy samples. Specifically, the EPR contains two steps: Firstly, the composite angular margin (CAM) metric is proposed to precisely distinguish clean but hard-to-learn positive samples from mislabeled ones in a hyperspherical space; Secondly, the certainty-oriented sphere weighting (COSW) is developed to dynamically allocate the importance of samples according to CAM, ensuring clean instances drive model updates. Extensive experimental results on Market1501, DukeMTMC-ReID, and CUHK03 datasets under both random and patterned noises show that CARE achieves competitive performance.
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