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RGBD images with high quality annotations in the form of geometric (i.e., segmentation) and structural (i.e., how do the segments are mutually related in 3D) information provide valuable priors to a large number of scene and image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-03-25 Yu-Shiang Wong , Hung-Kuo Chu , Niloy J. Mitra

While densely annotated image captions significantly facilitate the learning of robust vision-language alignment, methodologies for systematically optimizing human annotation efforts remain underexplored. We introduce Chain-of-Talkers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yijun Shen , Delong Chen , Fan Liu , Xingyu Wang , Chuanyi Zhang , Liang Yao , Yuhui Zheng

Manual annotation of medical images is a labor-intensive and time-consuming process, posing a significant bottleneck in the development and deployment of robust medical imaging AI systems. This paper introduces a novel hands-free Human-AI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Yizhe Zhang

Annotated images are required for both supervised model training and evaluation in image classification. Manually annotating images is arduous and expensive, especially for multi-labeled images. A recent trend for conducting such laboursome…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Jianzhe Lin , Tianze Yu , Z. Jane Wang

We have seen significant leapfrog advancement in machine learning in recent decades. The central idea of machine learnability lies on constructing learning algorithms that learn from good data. The availability of more data being made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Ng Hui Xian Lynnette , Henry Ng Siong Hock , Nguwi Yok Yen

Active learning improves annotation efficiency by selecting the most informative samples for annotation and model training. While most prior work has focused on selecting informative images for classification tasks, we investigate the more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jingna Qiu , Frauke Wilm , Mathias Öttl , Jonas Utz , Maja Schlereth , Moritz Schillinger , Marc Aubreville , Katharina Breininger

Common visual recognition tasks such as classification, object detection, and semantic segmentation are rapidly reaching maturity, and given the recent rate of progress, it is not unreasonable to conjecture that techniques for many of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Yan Zhu , Yuandong Tian , Dimitris Mexatas , Piotr Dollár

Panoptic segmentation combines instance and semantic predictions, allowing the detection of "things" and "stuff" simultaneously. Effectively approaching panoptic segmentation in remotely sensed data can be auspicious in many challenging…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated exceptional performance across various image segmentation tasks. However, the process of preparing datasets for training segmentation DNNs is both labor-intensive and costly, as it typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Yixin Zhang , Shen Zhao , Hanxue Gu , Maciej A. Mazurowski

Deep learning-based techniques have proven effective in polyp segmentation tasks when provided with sufficient pixel-wise labeled data. However, the high cost of manual annotation has created a bottleneck for model generalization. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Duojun Huang , Xinyu Xiong , De-Jun Fan , Feng Gao , Xiao-Jian Wu , Guanbin Li

Manually labeling datasets with object masks is extremely time consuming. In this work, we follow the idea of Polygon-RNN to produce polygonal annotations of objects interactively using humans-in-the-loop. We introduce several important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 David Acuna , Huan Ling , Amlan Kar , Sanja Fidler

Using deep learning, we now have the ability to create exceptionally good semantic segmentation systems; however, collecting the prerequisite pixel-wise annotations for training images remains expensive and time-consuming. Therefore, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Aneesh Rangnekar , Christopher Kanan , Matthew Hoffman

Manually annotating object segmentation masks is very time-consuming. While interactive segmentation methods offer a more efficient alternative, they become unaffordable at a large scale because the cost grows linearly with the number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Dim P. Papadopoulos , Ethan Weber , Antonio Torralba

We propose a method to annotate segmentation masks accurately and automatically using invisible marker for object manipulation. Invisible marker is invisible under visible (regular) light conditions, but becomes visible under invisible…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Kuniyuki Takahashi , Kenta Yonekura

Semantic segmentation has witnessed tremendous progress due to the proposal of various advanced network architectures. However, they are extremely hungry for delicate annotations to train, and the acquisition is laborious and unaffordable.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Lihe Yang , Xiaogang Xu , Bingyi Kang , Yinghuan Shi , Hengshuang Zhao

Recent advances of 3D acquisition devices have enabled large-scale acquisition of 3D scene data. Such data, if completely and well annotated, can serve as useful ingredients for a wide spectrum of computer vision and graphics works such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-20 Duc Thanh Nguyen , Binh-Son Hua , Lap-Fai Yu , Sai-Kit Yeung

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

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

Collecting image annotations remains a significant burden when deploying CNN in a specific applicative context. This is especially the case when the annotation consists in binary masks covering object instances. Our work proposes to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Niels Sayez , Christophe De Vleeschouwer

Diplomatics, the analysis of medieval charters, is a major field of research in which paleography is applied. Annotating data, if performed by laymen, needs validation and correction by experts. In this paper, we propose an effective and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Anguelos Nicolaou , Daniel Luger , Franziska Decker , Nicolas Renet , Vincent Christlein , Georg Vogeler