Tilted cross-entropy (TCE): Promoting fairness in semantic segmentation

Attila Szabo, Hadi Jamali-Rad, Siva Datta Mannava

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Abstract

Traditional empirical risk minimization (ERM) for semantic segmentation can disproportionately advantage or disadvantage certain target classes in favor of an (unfair but) improved overall performance. Inspired by the recently introduced tilted ERM (TERM), we propose tilted cross-entropy (TCE) loss and adapt it to the semantic segmentation set-ting to minimize performance disparity among target classes and promote fairness. Through quantitative and qualitative performance analyses, we demonstrate that the proposed Stochastic TCE for semantic segmentation can offer improved overall fairness by efficiently minimizing the performance disparity among the target classes of Cityscapes.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW 2021
PublisherIEEE
Pages2305-2310
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781665448994
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Event2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW 2021 - Virtual, Online, United States
Duration: 19 Jun 202125 Jun 2021

Publication series

NameIEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops
ISSN (Print)2160-7508
ISSN (Electronic)2160-7516

Conference

Conference2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW 2021
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityVirtual, Online
Period19/06/2125/06/21

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