Title
Nuisance-Label Supervision: Robustness Improvement by Free Labels
Abstract
In this paper, we present a Nuisance-label Supervision (NLS) module, which can make models more robust to nuisance factor variations. Nuisance factors are those irrelevant to a task, and an ideal model should be invariant to them. For example, an activity recognition model should perform consistently regardless of the change of clothes and background. But our experiments show existing models are far from this capability. So we explicitly supervise a model with nuisance labels to make extracted features less dependent on nuisance factors. Although the values of nuisance factors are rarely annotated, we demonstrate that besides existing annotations, nuisance labels can be acquired freely from data augmentation and synthetic data. Experiments show consistent improvement in robustness towards image corruption and appearance change in action recognition.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/ICCVW54120.2021.00179
2021 IEEE/CVF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION WORKSHOPS (ICCVW 2021)
DocType
Volume
Issue
Conference
2021
1
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2473-9936
0
0.34
References 
Authors
6
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xinyue Wei100.68
Weichao Qiu2549.02
Yi Zhang3475.12
Zihao Xiao4272.05
Alan L. Yuille5277.33