Long-tailed image recognition is a computer vision problem considering a real-world class distribution rather than an artificial uniform. Existing methods typically detour the problem by i) adjusting a loss function, ii) decoupling classifier learning, or iii) proposing a new multi-head architecture called experts. In this paper, we tackle the problem from a different perspective to augment a training dataset to enhance the sample diversity of minority classes. Specifically, our method, namely Confusion-Pairing Mixup (CP-Mix), estimates the confusion distribution of the model and handles the data deficiency problem by augmenting samples from confusion pairs in real-time. In this way, CP-Mix trains the model to mitigate its weakness and distinguish a pair of classes it frequently misclassifies. In addition, CP-Mix utilizes a novel mixup formulation to handle the bias in decision boundaries that originated from the imbalanced dataset. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CP-Mix outperforms existing methods for long-tailed image recognition and successfully relieves the confusion of the classifier.

本研究针对长尾图像识别中样本不足的问题，提出了一种新的数据增强方法——混淆配对混合（CP-Mix），旨在提高少数类别的样本多样性。通过实时增强来自混淆对的样本，CP-Mix 能够有效地训练模型，减少分类器的误判，从而 outperform 现有长尾识别方法，并减少分类器的混淆现象。

来自失败的混合：用于长尾识别的混淆配对混合方法