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Crowd-sourcing is an increasingly popular tool for image analysis in animal ecology. Computer vision methods that can utilize crowd-sourced annotations can help scale up analysis further. In this work we study the potential to do so on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Justin Kay , Catherine M. Foley , Tom Hart

Crowdsourcing platforms emerged as popular venues for purchasing human intelligence at low cost for large volume of tasks. As many low-paid workers are prone to give noisy answers, a common practice is to add redundancy by assigning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Jungseul Ok , Sewoong Oh , Yunhun Jang , Jinwoo Shin , Yung Yi

Acquiring ground truth labels for unlabelled data can be a costly procedure, since it often requires manual labour that is error-prone. Consequently, the available amount of labelled data is increasingly reduced due to the limitations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Athanasios Davvetas , Iraklis A. Klampanos

The recent success of generative AI highlights the crucial role of high-quality human feedback in building trustworthy AI systems. However, the increasing use of large language models (LLMs) by crowdsourcing workers poses a significant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yichi Zhang , Jinlong Pang , Zhaowei Zhu , Yang Liu

High-quality labels are often very scarce, whereas unlabeled data with inferred weak labels occurs more naturally. In many cases, these weak labels dictate the frequency of each respective class over a set of instances. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Vinay Shukla , Zhe Zeng , Kareem Ahmed , Guy Van den Broeck

As a means of human-based computation, crowdsourcing has been widely used to annotate large-scale unlabeled datasets. One of the obvious challenges is how to aggregate these possibly noisy labels provided by a set of heterogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Xuan Wei , Daniel Dajun Zeng , Junming Yin

Learning from crowds describes that the annotations of training data are obtained with crowd-sourcing services. Multiple annotators each complete their own small part of the annotations, where labeling mistakes that depend on annotators…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Shikun Li , Xiaobo Xia , Jiankang Deng , Shiming Ge , Tongliang Liu

Modern, state-of-the-art deep learning approaches yield human like performance in numerous object detection and classification tasks. The foundation for their success is the availability of training datasets of substantially high quantity,…

Samples with ground truth labels may not always be available in numerous domains. While learning from crowdsourcing labels has been explored, existing models can still fail in the presence of sparse, unreliable, or diverging annotations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Mani Sotoodeh , Li Xiong , Joyce C. Ho

To quickly obtain new labeled data, we can choose crowdsourcing as an alternative way at lower cost in a short time. But as an exchange, crowd annotations from non-experts may be of lower quality than those from experts. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-17 YaoSheng Yang , Meishan Zhang , Wenliang Chen , Wei Zhang , Haofen Wang , Min Zhang

Most conventional crowd counting methods utilize a fully-supervised learning framework to establish a mapping between scene images and crowd density maps. They usually rely on a large quantity of costly and time-intensive pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jiaqi Gao , Zhizhong Huang , Yiming Lei , Hongming Shan , James Z. Wang , Fei-Yue Wang , Junping Zhang

Estimating crowd count in densely crowded scenes is an extremely challenging task due to non-uniform scale variations. In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end cascaded network of CNNs to jointly learn crowd count classification and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Vishwanath A. Sindagi , Vishal M. Patel

Most crowdsourcing learning methods treat disagreement between annotators as noisy labelings while inter-disagreement among experts is often a good indicator for the ambiguity and uncertainty that is inherent in natural language. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Xiaolei Lu

Crowd analysis via computer vision techniques is an important topic in the field of video surveillance, which has wide-spread applications including crowd monitoring, public safety, space design and so on. Pixel-wise crowd understanding is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Qi Wang , Junyu Gao , Wei Lin , Yuan Yuan

Crowdsourcing systems have been used to accumulate massive amounts of labeled data for applications such as computer vision and natural language processing. However, because crowdsourced labeling is inherently dynamic and uncertain,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Mohammad S. Majdi , Jeffrey J. Rodriguez

Research in neural networks in the field of computer vision has achieved remarkable accuracy for point estimation. However, the uncertainty in the estimation is rarely addressed. Uncertainty quantification accompanied by point estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Min-hwan Oh , Peder A. Olsen , Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy

Eliciting labels from crowds is a potential way to obtain large labeled data. Despite a variety of methods developed for learning from crowds, a key challenge remains unsolved: \emph{learning from crowds without knowing the information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Peng Cao , Yilun Xu , Yuqing Kong , Yizhou Wang

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

The unprecedented demand for large amount of data has catalyzed the trend of combining human insights with machine learning techniques, which facilitate the use of crowdsourcing to enlist label information both effectively and efficiently.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-26 Yao Zhou , Jingrui He

Cognitive computing systems require human labeled data for evaluation, and often for training. The standard practice used in gathering this data minimizes disagreement between annotators, and we have found this results in data that fails to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Anca Dumitrache , Lora Aroyo , Chris Welty