Convolutional Ordinal Regression Forest for Image Ordinal Estimation

doi:10.1109/TNNLS.2021.3055816

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	Convolutional Ordinal Regression Forest for Image Ordinal Estimation
	Zhu, Haiping 1; Shan, Hongming 2,3,4; Zhang, Yuheng 1; Che, Lingfu 1; Xu, Xiaoyang 1; Zhang, Junping 1; Shi, Jianbo 5; Wang, Fei-Yue6,7,8
发表期刊	IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS AND LEARNING SYSTEMS
ISSN	2162-237X
	2021-02-18
页码	12
通讯作者	Zhang, Junping(jpzhang@fudan.edu.cn) ; Wang, Fei-Yue(feiyue@ieee.org)
摘要	Image ordinal estimation is to predict the ordinal label of a given image, which can be categorized as an ordinal regression (OR) problem. Recent methods formulate an OR problem as a series of binary classification problems. Such methods cannot ensure that the global ordinal relationship is preserved since the relationships among different binary classifiers are neglected. We propose a novel OR approach, termed convolutional OR forest (CORF), for image ordinal estimation, which can integrate OR and differentiable decision trees with a convolutional neural network for obtaining precise and stable global ordinal relationships. The advantages of the proposed CORF are twofold. First, instead of learning a series of binary classifiers independently, the proposed method aims at learning an ordinal distribution for OR by optimizing those binary classifiers simultaneously. Second, the differentiable decision trees in the proposed CORF can be trained together with the ordinal distribution in an end-to-end manner. The effectiveness of the proposed CORF is verified on two image ordinal estimation tasks, i.e., facial age estimation and image esthetic assessment, showing significant improvements and better stability over the state-of-the-art OR methods.
关键词	Decision trees Estimation Task analysis Forestry Vegetation Random forests Support vector machines Differentiable decision trees image ordinal estimation ordinal distribution learning ordinal regression (OR) random forest
DOI	10.1109/TNNLS.2021.3055816
关键词[WOS]	RECOGNITION
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	National Key Research and Development Program of China[2018YFB1305104] ; Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project[2018SHZDZX01] ; ZhangJiang Lab ; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)[61533019] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)[61673118] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[U1811463] ; Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province[2020B090921003] ; Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Intelligent and Automated Connected Vehicles (ICRI-IACV) ; Shanghai Center for Brain Science and Brain-inspired Technology
项目资助者	National Key Research and Development Program of China ; Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project ; ZhangJiang Lab ; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) ; National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province ; Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Intelligent and Automated Connected Vehicles (ICRI-IACV) ; Shanghai Center for Brain Science and Brain-inspired Technology
WOS研究方向	Computer Science ; Engineering
WOS类目	Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence ; Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture ; Computer Science, Theory & Methods ; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
WOS记录号	WOS:000732901200001
出版者	IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
七大方向——子方向分类	图像视频处理与分析
引用统计	被引频次：19[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.ia.ac.cn/handle/173211/46807
专题	多模态人工智能系统全国重点实验室_平行智能技术与系统团队
通讯作者	Zhang, Junping; Wang, Fei-Yue
作者单位	1.Fudan Univ, Sch Comp Sci, Shanghai Key Lab Intelligent Informat Proc, Shanghai 200433, Peoples R China 2.Fudan Univ, Inst Sci & Technol Brain Inspired Intelligence, Shanghai 200433, Peoples R China 3.Fudan Univ, MOE Frontiers Ctr Brain Sci, Shanghai 200433, Peoples R China 4.Shanghai Ctr Brain Sci & Brain Inspired Technol, Shanghai 201210, Peoples R China 5.Univ Penn, GRASP Lab, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA 6.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Automat, State Key Lab Management & Control Complex Syst, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China 7.Macau Univ Sci & Technol, Inst Syst Engn, Macau 999078, Peoples R China 8.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Sch Artificial Intelligence, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
通讯作者单位	中国科学院自动化研究所
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhu, Haiping,Shan, Hongming,Zhang, Yuheng,et al. Convolutional Ordinal Regression Forest for Image Ordinal Estimation[J]. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS AND LEARNING SYSTEMS,2021:12.
APA	Zhu, Haiping.,Shan, Hongming.,Zhang, Yuheng.,Che, Lingfu.,Xu, Xiaoyang.,...&Wang, Fei-Yue.(2021).Convolutional Ordinal Regression Forest for Image Ordinal Estimation.IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS AND LEARNING SYSTEMS,12.
MLA	Zhu, Haiping,et al."Convolutional Ordinal Regression Forest for Image Ordinal Estimation".IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS AND LEARNING SYSTEMS (2021):12.