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Semi-supervised learning provides an effective paradigm for leveraging unlabeled data to improve a model's performance. Among the many strategies proposed, graph-based methods have shown excellent properties, in particular since they allow…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-29 Mourad El Hamri , Younès Bennani

We study how to leverage Web images to augment human-curated object detection datasets. Our approach is two-pronged. On the one hand, we retrieve Web images by image-to-image search, which incurs less domain shift from the curated data than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Yandong Li , Di Huang , Danfeng Qin , Liqiang Wang , Boqing Gong

Our study addresses the challenges of building datasets to understand the risks associated with organized activities and human trafficking through commercial sex advertisements. These challenges include data scarcity, rapid obsolescence,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Pablo Rivas , Tomas Cerny , Alejandro Rodriguez Perez , Javier Turek , Laurie Giddens , Gisela Bichler , Stacie Petter

Graph Semi-Supervised learning is an important data analysis tool, where given a graph and a set of labeled nodes, the aim is to infer the labels to the remaining unlabeled nodes. In this paper, we start by considering an optimization-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Sara Venturini , Andrea Cristofari , Francesco Rinaldi , Francesco Tudisco

Semi-supervised learning is a challenging problem which aims to construct a model by learning from limited labeled examples. Numerous methods for this task focus on utilizing the predictions of unlabeled instances consistency alone to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Peng Tu , Yawen Huang , Feng Zheng , Zhenyu He , Liujun Cao , Ling Shao

Knowledge about the locations of keypoints of an object in an image can assist in fine-grained classification and identification tasks, particularly for the case of objects that exhibit large variations in poses that greatly influence their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Olga Moskvyak , Frederic Maire , Feras Dayoub , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh

Document layout analysis is a known problem to the documents research community and has been vastly explored yielding a multitude of solutions ranging from text mining, and recognition to graph-based representation, visual feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Subhajit Maity , Sanket Biswas , Siladittya Manna , Ayan Banerjee , Josep Lladós , Saumik Bhattacharya , Umapada Pal

We present a semi-supervised approach that localizes multiple unknown object instances in long videos. We start with a handful of labeled boxes and iteratively learn and label hundreds of thousands of object instances. We propose criteria…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-22 Ishan Misra , Abhinav Shrivastava , Martial Hebert

In this paper, we consider the problem of autonomous driving using imitation learning in a semi-supervised manner. In particular, both labeled and unlabeled demonstrations are leveraged during training by estimating the quality of each…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Gunmin Lee , Wooseok Oh , Seungyoun Shin , Dohyeong Kim , Jeongwoo Oh , Jaeyeon Jeong , Sungjoon Choi , Songhwai Oh

Social media platforms such as Instagram and Twitter have emerged as critical channels for drug marketing and illegal sale. Detecting and labeling online illicit drug trafficking activities becomes important in addressing this issue.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Chuanbo Hu , Bin Liu , Xin Li , Yanfang Ye

In this paper, we investigate self-supervised pre-training methods for document text recognition. Nowadays, large unlabeled datasets can be collected for many research tasks, including text recognition, but it is costly to annotate them.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Martin Kišš , Michal Hradiš

Accurate player and ball detection has become increasingly important in recent years for sport analytics. As most state-of-the-art methods rely on training deep learning networks in a supervised fashion, they require huge amounts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Renaud Vandeghen , Anthony Cioppa , Marc Van Droogenbroeck

In semi-supervised learning, the prevailing understanding suggests that observing additional unlabeled samples improves estimation accuracy for linear parameters only in the case of model misspecification. In this work, we challenge such a…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-03 Kai Chen , Yuqian Zhang

In this work, we propose a simple yet effective meta-learning algorithm in semi-supervised learning. We notice that most existing consistency-based approaches suffer from overfitting and limited model generalization ability, especially when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Xin-Yu Zhang , Taihong Xiao , Haolin Jia , Ming-Ming Cheng , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) is fundamentally a missing label problem, in which the label Missing Not At Random (MNAR) problem is more realistic and challenging, compared to the widely-adopted yet naive Missing Completely At Random…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Xinting Hu , Yulei Niu , Chunyan Miao , Xian-Sheng Hua , Hanwang Zhang

Supervised learning demands large amounts of precisely annotated data to achieve promising results. Such data curation is labor-intensive and imposes significant overhead regarding time and costs. Self-supervised learning (SSL) partially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Thangarajah Akilan , Nusrat Jahan , Wandong Zhang

Vertex hunting (VH) is the task of estimating a simplex from noisy data points and has many applications in areas such as network and text analysis. We introduce a new variant, semi-supervised vertex hunting (SSVH), in which partial…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-28 Yicong Jiang , Zheng Tracy Ke

We present HUME, a simple model-agnostic framework for inferring human labeling of a given dataset without any external supervision. The key insight behind our approach is that classes defined by many human labelings are linearly separable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Artyom Gadetsky , Maria Brbic

Automatic Crowd behavior analysis can be applied to effectively help the daily transportation statistics and planning, which helps the smart city construction. As one of the most important keys, crowd counting has drawn increasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Haoran Duan , Fan Wan , Rui Sun , Zeyu Wang , Varun Ojha , Yu Guan , Hubert P. H. Shum , Bingzhang Hu , Yang Long

Many classification problems involve data instances that are interlinked with each other, such as webpages connected by hyperlinks. Techniques for "collective classification" (CC) often increase accuracy for such data graphs, but usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Luke McDowell , David Aha