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Learning-based solutions for vision tasks require a large amount of labeled training data to ensure their performance and reliability. In single-task vision-based settings, inconsistency-based active learning has proven to be effective in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Aral Hekimoglu , Philipp Friedrich , Walter Zimmer , Michael Schmidt , Alvaro Marcos-Ramiro , Alois C. Knoll

Extracting, harvesting and building large-scale annotated radiological image datasets is a greatly important yet challenging problem. It is also the bottleneck to designing more effective data-hungry computing paradigms (e.g., deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Ke Yan , Xiaosong Wang , Le Lu , Ronald M. Summers

In the area of human fixation prediction, dozens of computational saliency models are proposed to reveal certain saliency characteristics under different assumptions and definitions. As a result, saliency model benchmarking often requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Changqun Xia , Jia Li , Jinming Su , Ali Borji

We consider the problem of cost-optimal utilization of a crowdsourcing platform for binary, unsupervised classification of a collection of items, given a prescribed error threshold. Workers on the crowdsourcing platform are assumed to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Yashvardhan Didwania , Jayakrishnan Nair , N. Hemachandra

Meta-learning has become a practical approach towards few-shot image classification, where "a strategy to learn a classifier" is meta-learned on labeled base classes and can be applied to tasks with novel classes. We remove the requirement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Han-Jia Ye , Lu Han , De-Chuan Zhan

Crowdsourcing employs human workers to solve computer-hard problems, such as data cleaning, entity resolution, and sentiment analysis. When crowdsourcing tabular data, e.g., the attribute values of an entity set, a worker's answers on the…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Caihua Shan , Nikos Mamoulis , Guoliang Li , Reynold Cheng , Zhipeng Huang , Yudian Zheng

Recent works have shown that deep neural networks benefit from multi-task learning by learning a shared representation across several related tasks. However, performance of such systems depend on relative weighting between various losses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Pavan Kumar Anasosalu Vasu , Shreyas Saxena , Oncel Tuzel

Obtaining annotations for 3D medical images is expensive and time-consuming, despite its importance for automating segmentation tasks. Although multi-task learning is considered an effective method for training segmentation models using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Junichiro Iwasawa , Yuichiro Hirano , Yohei Sugawara

Early detection of skin cancer, particularly melanoma, is crucial to enable advanced treatment. Due to the rapid growth in the numbers of skin cancers, there is a growing need of computerized analysis for skin lesions. The state-of-the-art…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-31 Manu Goyal , Amanda Oakley , Priyanka Bansal , Darren Dancey , Moi Hoon Yap

Crowdsourcing is an economic and efficient strategy aimed at collecting annotations of data through an online platform. Crowd workers with different expertise are paid for their service, and the task requester usually has a limited budget.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Jinzheng Tu , Guoxian Yu , Carlotta Domeniconi , Jun Wang , Xiangliang Zhang

We propose a Multi-Task Learning (MTL) paradigm based deep neural network architecture, called MTCNet (Multi-Task Crowd Network) for crowd density and count estimation. Crowd count estimation is challenging due to the non-uniform scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Abhay Kumar , Nishant Jain , Suraj Tripathi , Chirag Singh , Kamal Krishna

Collecting a large number of reliable training images annotated by multiple land-cover class labels in the framework of multi-label classification is time-consuming and costly in remote sensing (RS). To address this problem, publicly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Ahmet Kerem Aksoy , Mahdyar Ravanbakhsh , Tristan Kreuziger , Begum Demir

The application of machine learning in medicine and healthcare has led to the creation of numerous diagnostic and prognostic models. However, despite their success, current approaches generally issue predictions using data from a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Fergus Imrie , Stefan Denner , Lucas S. Brunschwig , Klaus Maier-Hein , Mihaela van der Schaar

Deep learning implemented with convolutional network architectures can exceed specialists' diagnostic accuracy. However, whole-image deep learning trained on a given dataset may not generalize to other datasets. The problem arises because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Norsang Lama , R. Joe Stanley , Anand Nambisan , Akanksha Maurya , Jason Hagerty , William V. Stoecker

This paper presents a generic Bayesian framework that enables any deep learning model to actively learn from targeted crowds. Our framework inherits from recent advances in Bayesian deep learning, and extends existing work by considering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Jie Yang , Thomas Drake , Andreas Damianou , Yoelle Maarek

Although supervised deep-learning has achieved promising performance in medical image segmentation, many methods cannot generalize well on unseen data, limiting their real-world applicability. To address this problem, we propose a deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-10 Shangqi Gao , Hangqi Zhou , Yibo Gao , Xiahai Zhuang

In real-world scenarios we often need to perform multiple tasks simultaneously. Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is an adequate method to do so, but usually requires datasets labeled for all tasks. We propose a method that can leverage datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Federica Spinola , Philipp Benz , Minhyeong Yu , Tae-hoon Kim

Anomaly detection in medical images is a challenging task, since anomalies are not typically available during training. Recent methods leverage a single pretext task coupled with a large-scale pre-trained model to reach state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Bogdan Alexandru Bercean , Florinel Alin Croitoru , Vlad Hondru , Ciprian Mihai Ceausescu , Andreea Iuliana Ionescu , Radu Tudor Ionescu

Early detection of patients vulnerable to infections acquired in the hospital environment is a challenge in current health systems given the impact that such infections have on patient mortality and healthcare costs. This work is focused on…

Popular crowdsourcing techniques mostly focus on evaluating workers' labeling quality before adjusting their weights during label aggregation. Recently, another cohort of models regard crowdsourced annotations as incomplete tensors and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Ching-Yun Ko , Rui Lin , Shu Li , Ngai Wong