Utilization of Neighbor Information for Image Classification with Different Levels of Supervision

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Autori principali: Jayatilaka, Gihan, Shrivastava, Abhinav, Gwilliam, Matthew
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author Jayatilaka, Gihan
Shrivastava, Abhinav
Gwilliam, Matthew
author_facet Jayatilaka, Gihan
Shrivastava, Abhinav
Gwilliam, Matthew
contents We propose to bridge the gap between semi-supervised and unsupervised image recognition with a flexible method that performs well for both generalized category discovery (GCD) and image clustering. Despite the overlap in motivation between these tasks, the methods themselves are restricted to a single task -- GCD methods are reliant on the labeled portion of the data, and deep image clustering methods have no built-in way to leverage the labels efficiently. We connect the two regimes with an innovative approach that Utilizes Neighbor Information for Classification (UNIC) both in the unsupervised (clustering) and semisupervised (GCD) setting. State-of-the-art clustering methods already rely heavily on nearest neighbors. We improve on their results substantially in two parts, first with a sampling and cleaning strategy where we identify accurate positive and negative neighbors, and secondly by finetuning the backbone with clustering losses computed by sampling both types of neighbors. We then adapt this pipeline to GCD by utilizing the labelled images as ground truth neighbors. Our method yields state-of-the-art results for both clustering (+3% ImageNet-100, Imagenet200) and GCD (+0.8% ImageNet-100, +5% CUB, +2% SCars, +4% Aircraft).
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spellingShingle Utilization of Neighbor Information for Image Classification with Different Levels of Supervision
Jayatilaka, Gihan
Shrivastava, Abhinav
Gwilliam, Matthew
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
We propose to bridge the gap between semi-supervised and unsupervised image recognition with a flexible method that performs well for both generalized category discovery (GCD) and image clustering. Despite the overlap in motivation between these tasks, the methods themselves are restricted to a single task -- GCD methods are reliant on the labeled portion of the data, and deep image clustering methods have no built-in way to leverage the labels efficiently. We connect the two regimes with an innovative approach that Utilizes Neighbor Information for Classification (UNIC) both in the unsupervised (clustering) and semisupervised (GCD) setting. State-of-the-art clustering methods already rely heavily on nearest neighbors. We improve on their results substantially in two parts, first with a sampling and cleaning strategy where we identify accurate positive and negative neighbors, and secondly by finetuning the backbone with clustering losses computed by sampling both types of neighbors. We then adapt this pipeline to GCD by utilizing the labelled images as ground truth neighbors. Our method yields state-of-the-art results for both clustering (+3% ImageNet-100, Imagenet200) and GCD (+0.8% ImageNet-100, +5% CUB, +2% SCars, +4% Aircraft).
title Utilization of Neighbor Information for Image Classification with Different Levels of Supervision
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14500