Dmitrii Marin, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Deep learning models generalize limitedly to new datasets and require notoriously large amounts of labeled data for training. The latter problem is exacerbated by the need of ensuring that trained models are accurate in large variety of image scenes. The diversity of images comes from combinatorial nature of real world scenes, occlusions, variations in lightning, acquisition methods, etc. Many rare images may have little chance to be included in a dataset, but are still very important, as they often represent situations where a recognition mistake has a high cost.