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How many labeled pixels are needed to segment an image, without any prior knowledge? We conduct an experiment to answer this question. In our experiment, an Oracle is using Active Learning to train a network from scratch. The Oracle has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Daniel Kigli , Ariel Shamir , Shai Avidan

The rapid development of deep learning has made a great progress in image segmentation, one of the fundamental tasks of computer vision. However, the current segmentation algorithms mostly rely on the availability of pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Wei Shen , Zelin Peng , Xuehui Wang , Huayu Wang , Jiazhong Cen , Dongsheng Jiang , Lingxi Xie , Xiaokang Yang , Qi Tian

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

We present SLATE, a sequence labeling approach for extracting tasks from free-form content such as digitally handwritten (or "inked") notes on a virtual whiteboard. Our approach allows us to create a single, low-latency model to…

Safe artificial intelligence for perception tasks remains a major challenge, partly due to the lack of data with high-quality labels. Annotations themselves are subject to aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty, which is typically ignored…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jonathan Klees , Tobias Riedlinger , Peter Stehr , Bennet Böddecker , Daniel Kondermann , Matthias Rottmann

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable progress in image generation quality, especially when guidance is used to control the generative process. However, guidance requires a large amount of image-annotation pairs for training and is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Vincent Tao Hu , David W Zhang , Yuki M. Asano , Gertjan J. Burghouts , Cees G. M. Snoek

Existing works on semantic segmentation typically consider a small number of labels, ranging from tens to a few hundreds. With a large number of labels, training and evaluation of such task become extremely challenging due to correlation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Yufei Wang , Zhe Lin , Xiaohui Shen , Jianming Zhang , Scott Cohen

Word spotting is a popular tool for supporting the first exploration of historic, handwritten document collections. Today, the best performing methods rely on machine learning techniques, which require a high amount of annotated training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Fabian Wolf , Gernot A. Fink

In the context of medical Augmented Reality (AR) applications, object tracking is a key challenge and requires a significant amount of annotation masks. As segmentation foundation models like the Segment Anything Model (SAM) begin to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Michael Schwimmbeck , Serouj Khajarian , Konstantin Holzapfel , Johannes Schmidt , Stefanie Remmele

We present StyleBabel, a unique open access dataset of natural language captions and free-form tags describing the artistic style of over 135K digital artworks, collected via a novel participatory method from experts studying at specialist…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Dan Ruta , Andrew Gilbert , Pranav Aggarwal , Naveen Marri , Ajinkya Kale , Jo Briggs , Chris Speed , Hailin Jin , Baldo Faieta , Alex Filipkowski , Zhe Lin , John Collomosse

Compared with tedious per-pixel mask annotating, it is much easier to annotate data by clicks, which costs only several seconds for an image. However, applying clicks to learn video semantic segmentation model has not been explored before.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Peidong Liu , Zibin He , Xiyu Yan , Yong Jiang , Shutao Xia , Feng Zheng , Maowei Hu

The need for labour intensive pixel-wise annotation is a major limitation of many fully supervised learning methods for segmenting bioimages that can contain numerous object instances with thin separations. In this paper, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Rihuan Ke , Aurélie Bugeau , Nicolas Papadakis , Peter Schuetz , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

The labor-intensive annotation process of semantic segmentation datasets is often prone to errors, since humans struggle to label every pixel correctly. We study algorithms to automatically detect such annotation errors, in particular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Vedang Lad , Jonas Mueller

A large-scale dataset is essential for learning good features in 3D shape understanding, but there are only a few datasets that can satisfy deep learning training. One of the major reasons is that current tools for annotating per-point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Sucheng Qian , Liu Liu , Wenqiang Xu , Cewu Lu

Current deep learning-based approaches for the segmentation of microscopy images heavily rely on large amount of training data with dense annotation, which is highly costly and laborious in practice. Compared to full annotation where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Shijie Li , Mengwei Ren , Thomas Ach , Guido Gerig

Current state-of-the-art methods for object detection rely on annotated bounding boxes of large data sets for training. However, obtaining such annotations is expensive and can require up to hundreds of hours of manual labor. This poses a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Hannah Kniesel , Leon Sick , Tristan Payer , Tim Bergner , Kavitha Shaga Devan , Clarissa Read , Paul Walther , Timo Ropinski

Although active learning (AL) in segmentation tasks enables experts to annotate selected regions of interest (ROIs) instead of entire images, it remains highly challenging, labor-intensive, and cognitively demanding due to the blurry and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Md Shazid Islam , Shreyangshu Bera , Sudipta Paul , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

Large annotated datasets are crucial for the success of deep neural networks, but labeling data can be prohibitively expensive in domains such as medical imaging. This work tackles the subset selection problem: selecting a small set of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Noga Bar , Raja Giryes

Semantic segmentation is a challenging vision problem that usually necessitates the collection of large amounts of finely annotated data, which is often quite expensive to obtain. Coarsely annotated data provides an interesting alternative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Isay Katsman , Rohun Tripathi , Andreas Veit , Serge Belongie

High-quality pixel-level annotations are essential for the semantic segmentation of remote sensing imagery. However, such labels are expensive to obtain and often affected by noise due to the labor-intensive and time-consuming nature of…