Identifying Melanoma Images using EfficientNet Ensemble: Winning Solution to the SIIM-ISIC Melanoma Classification ChallengeQishen Ha, Bo Liu, Fuxu Liu
We present our winning solution to the SIIM-ISIC Melanoma Classification Challenge. It is an ensemble of convolutions neural network (CNN) models with different backbones and input sizes, most of which are image-only models while a few of them used image-level and patient-level metadata. The keys to our winning are: (1) stable validation scheme (2) good choice of model target (3) carefully tuned pipeline and (4) ensembling with very diverse models. The winning submission scored 0.9600 AUC on cross validation and 0.9490 AUC on private leaderboard.
Google Landmark Recognition 2020 Competition Third Place SolutionQishen Ha, Bo Liu, Fuxu Liu et al.
We present our third place solution to the Google Landmark Recognition 2020 competition. It is an ensemble of global features only Sub-center ArcFace models. We introduce dynamic margins for ArcFace loss, a family of tune-able margin functions of class size, designed to deal with the extreme imbalance in GLDv2 dataset. Progressive finetuning and careful postprocessing are also key to the solution. Our two submissions scored 0.6344 and 0.6289 on private leaderboard, both ranking third place out of 736 teams.