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This research addresses a critical gap in pose estimation by introducing REMIND, a method that identifies and filters noisy labels in clinical datasets of preterm infants without requiring prior knowledge of noise distributions. By leveraging training dynamics to select reliable keypoints, the approach significantly improves model robustness for monitoring infant motility where annotation quality is inherently compromised. This advancement supports the deployment of trustworthy AI systems in sensitive neonatal care environments where data imperfections are unavoidable.
The Blind Spot in 2D Infants' Pose Estimation:Robust Learning from Noisy Annotations
arXiv:2609.04009v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Noisy annotations pose a significant challenge for supervised deep learning, as neural networks rely on large-scale, high-quality labeled data whose corruption can severely impair model performance. Although robustness to label noise has been extensively studied for classification tasks, it remains relatively underexplored in Pose Estimation (PE). This limitation becomes critical in clinical contexts, including neonatology, where PE of preterm infants is used to support the assessment of spontaneous motility, a key indicator of neurodevelopmental trajectories. In such settings, infants' images labeling is further hindered by visual challenges (e.g., keypoint self-occlusions, caregiver interference), making the annotation process inherently susceptible to errors. To tackle noisy annotations in PE, we introduce REliable keypoint selection via Memory of traINing Dynamics (REMIND), a clustering-based keypoint-selection strategy that exploits keypoint-wise training dynamics to identify noisy labels without assuming any prior knowledge of the noise distribution, thus enabling noise-free model training. When evaluated on the proprietary NeoPose dataset, comprising 46 videos of 46 preterm infants recorded in real clinical settings, REMIND correctly identifies noisy annotations across multiple corruption scenarios, achieving up to 93\% Area Under the Curve (AUC) with three different PE architectures used in the relevant literature. To our knowledge, this is the first study to explicitly address label noise in preterm infants' PE, paving the way for the design of trustworthy learning-based algorithms for infants'monitoring support when data quality cannot be guaranteed.
Abstract:Noisy annotations pose a significant challenge for supervised deep learning, as neural networks rely on large-scale, high-quality labeled data whose corruption can severely impair model performance. Although robustness to label noise has been extensively studied for classification tasks, it remains relatively underexplored in Pose Estimation (PE). This limitation becomes critical in clinical contexts, including neonatology, where PE of preterm infants is used to support the assessment of spontaneous motility, a key indicator of neurodevelopmental trajectories. In such settings, infants' images labeling is further hindered by visual challenges (e.g., keypoint self-occlusions, caregiver interference), making the annotation process inherently susceptible to errors. To tackle noisy annotations in PE, we introduce REliable keypoint selection via Memory of traINing Dynamics (REMIND), a clustering-based keypoint-selection strategy that exploits keypoint-wise training dynamics to identify noisy labels without assuming any prior knowledge of the noise distribution, thus enabling noise-free model training. When evaluated on the proprietary NeoPose dataset, comprising 46 videos of 46 preterm infants recorded in real clinical settings, REMIND correctly identifies noisy annotations across multiple corruption scenarios, achieving up to 93\% Area Under the Curve (AUC) with three different PE architectures used in the relevant literature. To our knowledge, this is the first study to explicitly address label noise in preterm infants' PE, paving the way for the design of trustworthy learning-based algorithms for infants'monitoring support when data quality cannot be guaranteed.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
arXiv:2609.04009 [cs.CV]
(or arXiv:2609.04009v1 [cs.CV] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.04009 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
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