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This paper focuses on source-free domain adaptation for object detection in computer vision. This task is challenging and of great practical interest, due to the cost of obtaining annotated data sets for every new domain. Recent research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Yan Hao , Florent Forest , Olga Fink

Annotating datasets for object detection is an expensive and time-consuming endeavor. To minimize this burden, active learning (AL) techniques are employed to select the most informative samples for annotation within a constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Chenhongyi Yang , Lichao Huang , Elliot J. Crowley

Benchmark object detection (OD) datasets play a pivotal role in advancing computer vision applications such as autonomous driving, and surveillance, as well as in training and evaluating deep learning-based state-of-the-art detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Min Je Kim , Muhammad Munsif , Altaf Hussain , Hikmat Yar , Sung Wook Baik

We propose a method for effectively utilizing weakly annotated image data in an object detection tasks of breast ultrasound images. Given the problem setting where a small, strongly annotated dataset and a large, weakly annotated dataset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 JooYeol Yun , JungWoo Oh , IlDong Yun

Object counting typically uses 2D point annotations. The complexity of object shapes and the subjectivity of annotators may lead to annotation inconsistency, potentially confusing counting model training. Some sophisticated noise-resistance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Yuda Zou , Xin Xiao , Peilin Zhou , Zhichao Sun , Bo Du , Yongchao Xu

Thousands of scanned historical topographic maps contain valuable information covering long periods of time, such as how the hydrography of a region has changed over time. Efficiently unlocking the information in these maps requires…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Weiwei Duan , Yao-Yi Chiang , Stefan Leyk , Johannes H. Uhl , Craig A. Knoblock

One of the major open challenges in self-driving cars is the ability to detect cars and pedestrians to safely navigate in the world. Deep learning-based object detector approaches have enabled great advances in using camera imagery to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Manikandasriram Srinivasan Ramanagopal , Cyrus Anderson , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Nearly all existing counting methods are designed for a specific object class. Our work, however, aims to create a counting model able to count any class of object. To achieve this goal, we formulate counting as a matching problem, enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Erika Lu , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

High-quality annotations are essential for object detection models, but ensuring label accuracy - especially for bounding boxes - remains both challenging and costly. This paper introduces ClipGrader, a novel approach that leverages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Hong Lu , Yali Bian , Rahul C. Shah

Event-based object detection has recently garnered attention in the computer vision community due to the exceptional properties of event cameras, such as high dynamic range and no motion blur. However, feature asynchronism and sparsity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Ting-Kang Yen , Igor Morawski , Shusil Dangi , Kai He , Chung-Yi Lin , Jia-Fong Yeh , Hung-Ting Su , Winston Hsu

Annotation errors are a challenge not only during training of machine learning models, but also during their evaluation. Label variations and inaccuracies in datasets often manifest as contradictory examples that deviate from established…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-23 David Tschirschwitz , Volker Rodehorst

Partial-label learning (PLL) generally focuses on inducing a noise-tolerant multi-class classifier by training on overly-annotated samples, each of which is annotated with a set of labels, but only one is the valid label. A basic promise of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Yunfeng Zhao , Guoxian Yu , Lei Liu , Zhongmin Yan , Lizhen Cui , Carlotta Domeniconi

Pseudo-Labeling has emerged as a simple yet effective technique for semi-supervised object detection (SSOD). However, the inevitable noise problem in pseudo-labels significantly degrades the performance of SSOD methods. Recent advances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Yulin He , Wei Chen , Ke Liang , Yusong Tan , Zhengfa Liang , Yulan Guo

This paper proposes a novel training scheme for fast matching models in Search Ads, which is motivated by the real challenges in model training. The first challenge stems from the pursuit of high throughput, which prohibits the deployment…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Xue Li , Zhipeng Luo , Hao Sun , Jianjin Zhang , Weihao Han , Xianqi Chu , Liangjie Zhang , Qi Zhang

Object detection plays a deep role in visual systems by identifying instances for downstream algorithms. In industrial scenarios, however, a slight change in manufacturing systems would lead to costly data re-collection and human annotation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Tung-I Chen , Jen-Wei Wang , Winston H. Hsu

Domain Adaptive Object Detection (DAOD) models a joint distribution of images and labels from an annotated source domain and learns a domain-invariant transformation to estimate the target labels with the given target domain images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Xinyu Liu , Wuyang Li , Qiushi Yang , Baopu Li , Yixuan Yuan

Real-world object detection is highly desired to be equipped with the learning expandability that can enlarge its detection classes incrementally. Moreover, such learning from only few annotated training samples further adds the flexibility…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Yiting Li , Haiyue Zhu , Jun Ma , Chek Sing Teo , Cheng Xiang , Prahlad Vadakkepat , Tong Heng Lee

The growing demand for oriented object detection (OOD) across various domains has driven significant research in this area. However, the high cost of dataset annotation remains a major concern. Current mainstream OOD algorithms can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Mingxin Liu , Peiyuan Zhang , Yuan Liu , Wei Zhang , Yue Zhou , Ning Liao , Ziyang Gong , Junwei Luo , Zhirui Wang , Yi Yu , Xue Yang

Semi- and weakly-supervised learning have recently attracted considerable attention in the object detection literature since they can alleviate the cost of annotation needed to successfully train deep learning models. State-of-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Akhil Meethal , Marco Pedersoli , Zhongwen Zhu , Francisco Perdigon Romero , Eric Granger

Object detection methods have witnessed impressive improvements in the last years thanks to the design of novel neural network architectures and the availability of large scale datasets. However, current methods have a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Dario Fontanel , Matteo Tarantino , Fabio Cermelli , Barbara Caputo