arXiv:2609.02369cs.CV2026-09

发现视觉检测中信息密度不均衡是类别偏差的根源,可提升模型公平性。

Information Density Imbalance in Visual Object Detection

论文配图:Information Density Imbalance in Visual Object Detection
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  • 提出信息密度概念,量化类别信息丰富程度。
  • 信息密度越低,模型准确率越差,且训练过程加剧此偏差。
  • 基于该理念改进损失函数,显著降低偏差并提升性能。

在目标检测中,通常以实例数量判断数据集是否长尾分布,隐含假设是少样本类别表现差。然而,即使实例数相对平衡,模型仍存在类别偏差,说明实例数无法解释该现象。本文首次提出信息密度的概念与度量方法,发现类别信息密度与准确率呈显著负相关,并研究了训练过程对这一关系的影响。实证研究表明,信息密度不平衡可能是类别偏差的潜在来源。为验证其有效性,我们基于该概念对三种先进检测损失函数进行了简单改进。在Pascal VOC、COCO-LT和LVIS数据集上的实验表明,信息密度能显著降低模型偏差,并有效提升现有损失函数的整体性能。本研究为理解目标检测模型中的泛化偏差提供了新视角,也为设计更公平的损失函数与训练策略提供了新工具。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

In object detection, the number of instances is typically used to determine whether a dataset exhibits a long-tailed distribution, implicitly assuming that the model will perform poorly on categories with fewer instances. This assumption has led to extensive research on category bias in datasets with imbalanced instance numbers. However, even in datasets where instance numbers are relatively balanced, models still exhibit category bias, indicating that instance count alone cannot explain this phenomenon. In this work, we first introduce the concept and measurement of information density. We then observe a significant negative correlation between a category's information density and its accuracy, and we investigate how the training process impacts this relationship. Empirical studies suggest that information density imbalance may be a potential source of category bias. To preliminarily validate the potential of information density, we made simple improvements to three advanced object detection loss functions using this concept. Experiments on the Pascal VOC, COCO-LT, and LVIS datasets demonstrate that information density can significantly reduce model bias while effectively enhancing the overall performance of existing loss functions. This study provides a new perspective for understanding the generalized bias phenomenon in object detection models and offers new tools for designing fairer loss functions and training strategies.

目标检测类别偏差信息密度损失函数

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