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Image annotation aims to annotate a given image with a variable number of class labels corresponding to diverse visual concepts. In this paper, we address two main issues in large-scale image annotation: 1) how to learn a rich feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Yulei Niu , Zhiwu Lu , Ji-Rong Wen , Tao Xiang , Shih-Fu Chang

The original ImageNet benchmark enforces a single-label assumption, despite many images depicting multiple objects. This leads to label noise and limits the richness of the learning signal. Multi-label annotations more accurately reflect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Junyu Chen , Md Yousuf Harun , Christopher Kanan

High-quality data is necessary for modern machine learning. However, the acquisition of such data is difficult due to noisy and ambiguous annotations of humans. The aggregation of such annotations to determine the label of an image leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Lars Schmarje , Vasco Grossmann , Claudius Zelenka , Sabine Dippel , Rainer Kiko , Mariusz Oszust , Matti Pastell , Jenny Stracke , Anna Valros , Nina Volkmann , Reinhard Koch

Data annotation using visual inspection (supervision) of each training sample can be laborious. Interactive solutions alleviate this by helping experts propagate labels from a few supervised samples to unlabeled ones based solely on the…

The increase in data collection has made data annotation an interesting and valuable task in the contemporary world. This paper presents a new methodology for quickly annotating data using click-supervision and hierarchical object…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Adithya Subramanian , Anbumani Subramanian

Manual annotation remains the gold standard for high-quality, dense temporal video datasets, yet it is inherently time-consuming. Vision-language models can aid human annotators and expedite this process. We report on the impact of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Juan Gutiérrez , Victor Gutiérrez , Ángel Mora , Silvia Rodriguez , José Luis Blanco

AI models rely on annotated data to learn pattern and perform prediction. Annotation is usually a labor-intensive step that require associating labels ranging from a simple classification label to more complex tasks such as object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Safouane El Ghazouali , Umberto Michelucci

In the past few years we have seen great advances in object perception (particularly in 4D space-time dimensions) thanks to deep learning methods. However, they typically rely on large amounts of high-quality labels to achieve good…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Bin Yang , Min Bai , Ming Liang , Wenyuan Zeng , Raquel Urtasun

Pixel-wise segmentation is one of the most data and annotation hungry tasks in our field. Providing representative and accurate annotations is often mission-critical especially for challenging medical applications. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Simon Reiß , Constantin Seibold , Alexander Freytag , Erik Rodner , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Deep neural networks deliver state-of-the-art visual recognition, but they rely on large datasets, which are time-consuming to annotate. These datasets are typically annotated in two stages: (1) determining the presence of object classes at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Michael Gygli , Vittorio Ferrari

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

When human annotators are given a choice about what to label in an image, they apply their own subjective judgments on what to ignore and what to mention. We refer to these noisy "human-centric" annotations as exhibiting human reporting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Ishan Misra , C. Lawrence Zitnick , Margaret Mitchell , Ross Girshick

Data annotation is crucial for developing machine learning solutions. The current paradigm is to hire ordinary human annotators to annotate data instructed by expert-crafted guidelines. As this paradigm is laborious, tedious, and costly, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yechi Ma , Wei Hua , Shu Kong

Learned object detection methods based on fusion of LiDAR and camera data require labeled training samples, but niche applications, such as warehouse robotics or automated infrastructure, require semantic classes not available in large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Ryan Rubel , Andrew Dudash , Mohammad Goli , James O'Hara , Karl Wunderlich

Audio-visual learning seeks to enhance the computer's multi-modal perception leveraging the correlation between the auditory and visual modalities. Despite their many useful downstream tasks, such as video retrieval, AR/VR, and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Zheng Zhang , Zheng Ning , Chenliang Xu , Yapeng Tian , Toby Jia-Jun Li

Annotated data is an essential ingredient in natural language processing for training and evaluating machine learning models. It is therefore very desirable for the annotations to be of high quality. Recent work, however, has shown that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Jan-Christoph Klie , Bonnie Webber , Iryna Gurevych

Supervised classification algorithms are used to solve a growing number of real-life problems around the globe. Their performance is strictly connected with the quality of labels used in training. Unfortunately, acquiring good-quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Daniel Kałuża , Andrzej Janusz , Dominik Ślęzak

We address interactive full image annotation, where the goal is to accurately segment all object and stuff regions in an image. We propose an interactive, scribble-based annotation framework which operates on the whole image to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Eirikur Agustsson , Jasper R. R. Uijlings , Vittorio Ferrari

Recent years have witnessed the rapid progress of perception algorithms on top of LiDAR, a widely adopted sensor for autonomous driving systems. These LiDAR-based solutions are typically data hungry, requiring a large amount of data to be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Tai Wang , Conghui He , Zhe Wang , Jianping Shi , Dahua Lin

High-quality human annotations are necessary for creating effective machine learning-driven stream processing systems. We study hybrid stream processing systems based on a Human-In-The-Loop Machine Learning (HITL-ML) paradigm, in which one…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Rahul Pandey , Hemant Purohit , Carlos Castillo , Valerie L. Shalin