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Main Authors: Xu, Isaac, Misiuk, Benjamin, Lowe, Scott C., Gillis, Martin, Brown, Craig J., Trappenberg, Thomas
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06618
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author Xu, Isaac
Misiuk, Benjamin
Lowe, Scott C.
Gillis, Martin
Brown, Craig J.
Trappenberg, Thomas
author_facet Xu, Isaac
Misiuk, Benjamin
Lowe, Scott C.
Gillis, Martin
Brown, Craig J.
Trappenberg, Thomas
contents In this work, we apply state-of-the-art self-supervised learning techniques on a large dataset of seafloor imagery, \textit{BenthicNet}, and study their performance for a complex hierarchical multi-label (HML) classification downstream task. In particular, we demonstrate the capacity to conduct HML training in scenarios where there exist multiple levels of missing annotation information, an important scenario for handling heterogeneous real-world data collected by multiple research groups with differing data collection protocols. We find that, when using smaller one-hot image label datasets typical of local or regional scale benthic science projects, models pre-trained with self-supervision on a larger collection of in-domain benthic data outperform models pre-trained on ImageNet. In the HML setting, we find the model can attain a deeper and more precise classification if it is pre-trained with self-supervision on in-domain data. We hope this work can establish a benchmark for future models in the field of automated underwater image annotation tasks and can guide work in other domains with hierarchical annotations of mixed resolution.
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spellingShingle Hierarchical Multi-Label Classification with Missing Information for Benthic Habitat Imagery
Xu, Isaac
Misiuk, Benjamin
Lowe, Scott C.
Gillis, Martin
Brown, Craig J.
Trappenberg, Thomas
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
In this work, we apply state-of-the-art self-supervised learning techniques on a large dataset of seafloor imagery, \textit{BenthicNet}, and study their performance for a complex hierarchical multi-label (HML) classification downstream task. In particular, we demonstrate the capacity to conduct HML training in scenarios where there exist multiple levels of missing annotation information, an important scenario for handling heterogeneous real-world data collected by multiple research groups with differing data collection protocols. We find that, when using smaller one-hot image label datasets typical of local or regional scale benthic science projects, models pre-trained with self-supervision on a larger collection of in-domain benthic data outperform models pre-trained on ImageNet. In the HML setting, we find the model can attain a deeper and more precise classification if it is pre-trained with self-supervision on in-domain data. We hope this work can establish a benchmark for future models in the field of automated underwater image annotation tasks and can guide work in other domains with hierarchical annotations of mixed resolution.
title Hierarchical Multi-Label Classification with Missing Information for Benthic Habitat Imagery
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06618