Multi-task Pedestrian Attribute Classification Using ConvNeXt with Advanced Data Augmentation
摘要
We propose a multi-task deep learning framework for pedestrian attribute classification, jointly predicting five key attributes: upper and lower clothing colors, gender, and the presence of a bag and hat. Our approach employs a ConvNeXt-Large backbone pretrained on ImageNet-22k, enhanced with advanced data augmentation techniques including MixUp and CutMix. To address class imbalance, we introduce a conditional augmentation strategy targeting challenging color classes (e.g., black and gray). Experiments on the MIVIA PAR KD Dataset 2025, comprising over 105,000 annotated pedestrian images, demonstrate the effectiveness of our method, achieving a peak mean accuracy of 93.14% across all attributes. These results highlight the advantages of combining modern convolutional architectures, task-aware augmentation, and multi-task learning for robust pedestrian analysis in real-world settings.