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Active learning is considered a viable solution to alleviate the contradiction between the high dependency of deep learning-based segmentation methods on annotated data and the expensive pixel-level annotation cost of medical images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jun Shi , Shulan Ruan , Ziqi Zhu , Minfan Zhao , Hong An , Xudong Xue , Bing Yan

High accuracy medical image classification can be limited by the costs of acquiring more data as well as the time and expertise needed to label existing images. In this paper, we apply active learning to medical image classification, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Emma Slade , Kim M. Branson

Active learning seeks to achieve strong performance with fewer training samples. It does this by iteratively asking an oracle to label new selected samples in a human-in-the-loop manner. This technique has gained increasing popularity due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Dongyuan Li , Zhen Wang , Yankai Chen , Renhe Jiang , Weiping Ding , Manabu Okumura

Deep Active Learning (DAL) has been advocated as a promising method to reduce labeling costs in supervised learning. However, existing evaluations of DAL methods are based on different settings, and their results are controversial. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Yu Li , Muxi Chen , Yannan Liu , Daojing He , Qiang Xu

Active learning (AL) has emerged as a crucial methodology for minimizing labeling costs in deep learning by selecting the most valuable samples from a pool of unlabeled data for annotation. Traditional AL operates under a closed-set…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Zongyao Lyu , William J. Beksi

Annotating bounding boxes is costly and limits the scalability of object detection. This challenge is compounded by the need to preserve high accuracy while minimizing manual effort in real-world applications. Prior active learning methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Rashi Sharma , Justin Timothy C. Bersamin , Karthikk Subramanian

Active learning aims to reduce the high labeling cost involved in training machine learning models on large datasets by efficiently labeling only the most informative samples. Recently, deep active learning has shown success on various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Sudhanshu Mittal , Maxim Tatarchenko , Özgün Çiçek , Thomas Brox

Image segmentation is one of the most essential biomedical image processing problems for different imaging modalities, including microscopy and X-ray in the Internet-of-Medical-Things (IoMT) domain. However, annotating biomedical images is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Ziyuan Zhao , Zeng Zeng , Kaixin Xu , Cen Chen , Cuntai Guan

Deep learning models have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many computer vision tasks. However, in real-world scenarios, novel classes that were unseen during training often emerge, requiring models to acquire new knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Lucas Rakotoarivony

Active learning is an important technology for automated machine learning systems. In contrast to Neural Architecture Search (NAS) which aims at automating neural network architecture design, active learning aims at automating training data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Zhanpeng Feng , Shiliang Zhang , Rinyoichi Takezoe , Wenze Hu , Manmohan Chandraker , Li-Jia Li , Vijay K. Narayanan , Xiaoyu Wang

Image annotation for active learning is labor-intensive. Various automatic and semi-automatic labeling methods are proposed to save the labeling cost, but a reduction in the number of labeled instances does not guarantee a reduction in cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Yingcheng Sun , Kenneth Loparo

Modern AI algorithms require labeled data. In real world, majority of data are unlabeled. Labeling the data are costly. this is particularly true for some areas requiring special skills, such as reading radiology images by physicians. To…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-31 Yiran Huang , Jian-Feng Yang , Haoda Fu

Active learning focuses on choosing a subset of unlabeled data to be labeled. However, most such methods assume that a large subset of the data can be annotated. We are interested in low-budget active learning where only a small subset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Kossar Pourahmadi , Parsa Nooralinejad , Hamed Pirsiavash

Quantifying the impacts of air pollution on health and climate relies on key atmospheric particle properties such as toxicity and hygroscopicity. However, these properties typically require complex observational techniques or expensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Fei Jiang , Jiyang Xia , Junjie Yu , Mingfei Sun , Hugh Coe , David Topping , Dantong Liu , Zhenhui Jessie Li , Zhonghua Zheng

In this paper, we propose a novel active learning approach integrated with an improved semi-supervised learning framework to reduce the cost of manual annotation and enhance model performance. Our proposed approach effectively leverages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Wanli Ma , Oktay Karakus , Paul L. Rosin

Drawing inspiration from the outstanding learning capability of our human brains, Hyperdimensional Computing (HDC) emerges as a novel computing paradigm, and it leverages high-dimensional vector presentation and operations for brain-like…

Image annotation is one of the most essential tasks for guaranteeing proper treatment for patients and tracking progress over the course of therapy in the field of medical imaging and disease diagnosis. However, manually annotating a lot of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Md Abdul Kadir , Hasan Md Tusfiqur Alam , Pascale Maul , Hans-Jürgen Profitlich , Moritz Wolf , Daniel Sonntag

The acquisition of labels for supervised learning can be expensive. To improve the sample efficiency of neural network regression, we study active learning methods that adaptively select batches of unlabeled data for labeling. We present a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-02 David Holzmüller , Viktor Zaverkin , Johannes Kästner , Ingo Steinwart

Active learning algorithms have become increasingly popular for training models with limited data. However, selecting data for annotation remains a challenging problem due to the limited information available on unseen data. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Md Abdul Kadir , Hasan Md Tusfiqur Alam , Daniel Sonntag

Multi-task learning is central to many real-world applications. Unfortunately, obtaining labelled data for all tasks is time-consuming, challenging, and expensive. Active Learning (AL) can be used to reduce this burden. Existing techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Nikita Durasov , Nik Dorndorf , Pascal Fua