Title
Discriminately decreasing discriminability with learned image filters
Abstract
In machine learning and computer vision, input signals are often filtered to increase data discriminability. For example, preprocessing face images with Gabor band-pass filters is known to improve performance in expression recognition tasks [1]. Sometimes, however, one may wish to purposely decrease discriminability of one classification task (a “distractor” task), while simultaneously preserving information relevant to another task (the target task): For example, due to privacy concerns, it may be important to mask the identity of persons contained in face images before submitting them to a crowdsourcing site (e.g., Mechanical Turk) when labeling them for certain facial attributes. Suppressing discriminability in distractor tasks may also be needed to improve inter-dataset generalization: training datasets may sometimes contain spurious correlations between a target attribute (e.g., facial expression) and a distractor attribute (e.g., gender). We might improve generalization to new datasets by suppressing the signal related to the distractor task in the training dataset. This can be seen as a special form of supervised regularization. In this paper we present an approach to automatically learning preprocessing filters that suppress discriminability in distractor tasks while preserving it in target tasks. We present promising results in simulated image classification problems and in a realistic expression recognition problem.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/CVPR.2012.6247964
CVPR '12 Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
suppressing discriminability,distractor attribute,image filter,distractor task,target attribute,realistic expression recognition problem,classification task,facial expression,data discriminability,target task,expression recognition task,pattern recognition,measurement,learning artificial intelligence,data privacy,image classification,machine learning,kernel,labeling,vectors,face,computer vision,band pass filters,convolution,face recognition
Journal
abs/1110.0585
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1063-6919
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.48
8
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jacob Whitehill198858.75
Javier R. Movellan21853150.44