Title
Unsupervised Data Uncertainty Learning in Visual Retrieval Systems.
Abstract
We introduce an unsupervised formulation to estimate heteroscedastic uncertainty in retrieval systems. We propose an extension to triplet loss that models data uncertainty for each input. Besides improving performance, our formulation models local noise in the embedding space. It quantifies input uncertainty and thus enhances interpretability of the system. This helps identify noisy observations in query and search databases. Evaluation on both image and video retrieval applications highlight the utility of our approach. We highlight our efficiency in modeling local noise using two real-world datasets: Clothing1M and Honda Driving datasets. Qualitative results illustrate our ability in identifying confusing scenarios in various domains. Uncertainty learning also enables data cleaning by detecting noisy training labels.
Year
Venue
DocType
2019
arXiv: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Journal
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
abs/1902.02586
1
0.34
References 
Authors
21
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ahmed Taha1125.61
Yi-Ting Chen2114.20
Teruhisa Misu3224.66
Abhinav Shrivastava488336.94
Larry S. Davis5142012690.83