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Active learning (AL) is a widely-used training strategy for maximizing predictive performance subject to a fixed annotation budget. In AL one iteratively selects training examples for annotation, often those for which the current model is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-05 David Lowell , Zachary C. Lipton , Byron C. Wallace

The splendid success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in computer vision is largely attributable to the availability of massive annotated datasets, such as ImageNet and Places. However, in medical imaging, it is challenging to create…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Zongwei Zhou , Jae Y. Shin , Suryakanth R. Gurudu , Michael B. Gotway , Jianming Liang

Despite the success of deep learning on supervised point cloud semantic segmentation, obtaining large-scale point-by-point manual annotations is still a significant challenge. To reduce the huge annotation burden, we propose a Region-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Tsung-Han Wu , Yueh-Cheng Liu , Yu-Kai Huang , Hsin-Ying Lee , Hung-Ting Su , Ping-Chia Huang , Winston H. Hsu

Efficient data annotation remains a critical challenge in machine learning, particularly for object detection tasks requiring extensive labeled data. Active learning (AL) has emerged as a promising solution to minimize annotation costs by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Somraj Gautam , Nachiketa Purohit , Gaurav Harit

The ability of deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) to learn discriminative spectro-temporal patterns makes them well suited to environmental sound classification. However, the relative scarcity of labeled data has impeded the…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Justin Salamon , Juan Pablo Bello

Active learning has emerged as a promising approach to reduce the substantial annotation burden in 3D object detection tasks, spurring several initiatives in outdoor environments. However, its application in indoor environments remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Jiangyi Wang , Na Zhao

Active learning (AL) is a prominent technique for reducing the annotation effort required for training machine learning models. Deep learning offers a solution for several essential obstacles to deploying AL in practice but introduces many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Akim Tsvigun , Artem Shelmanov , Gleb Kuzmin , Leonid Sanochkin , Daniil Larionov , Gleb Gusev , Manvel Avetisian , Leonid Zhukov

The field of Natural Language Generation (NLG) suffers from a severe shortage of labeled data due to the extremely expensive and time-consuming process involved in manual annotation. A natural approach for coping with this problem is active…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Yotam Perlitz , Ariel Gera , Michal Shmueli-Scheuer , Dafna Sheinwald , Noam Slonim , Liat Ein-Dor

With the rise of large language models, neural text summarization has advanced significantly in recent years. However, even state-of-the-art models continue to rely heavily on high-quality human-annotated data for training and evaluation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Petros Stylianos Giouroukis , Alexios Gidiotis , Grigorios Tsoumakas

Semantic segmentation of satellite imagery plays a vital role in land cover mapping and environmental monitoring. However, annotating large-scale, high-resolution satellite datasets is costly and time consuming, especially when covering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Gadi Hemanth Kumar , Athira Nambiar , Pankaj Bodani

During the last half decade, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have triumphed over semantic segmentation, which is one of the core tasks in many applications such as autonomous driving and augmented reality. However, to train CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Yang Zhang , Philip David , Hassan Foroosh , Boqing Gong

Foundation models for vision have transformed visual recognition with powerful pretrained representations and strong zero-shot capabilities, yet their potential for data-efficient learning remains largely untapped. Active Learning (AL) aims…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Huy Hoang Nguyen , Cédric Jung , Shirin Salehi , Tobias Glück , Anke Schmeink , Andreas Kugi

We propose a new batch mode active learning algorithm designed for neural networks and large query batch sizes. The method, Discriminative Active Learning (DAL), poses active learning as a binary classification task, attempting to choose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Daniel Gissin , Shai Shalev-Shwartz

Recently, many researches employ middle-layer output of convolutional neural network models (CNN) as features for different visual recognition tasks. Although promising results have been achieved in some empirical studies, such type of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-09 Jianwei Luo , Jianguo Li , Jun Wang , Zhiguo Jiang , Yurong Chen

Recently, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have made remarkable progress for text classification, which, however, still require a large number of labeled data. To train high-performing models with the minimal annotation cost, active learning is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Qiang Liu , Yanqiao Zhu , Zhaocheng Liu , Yufeng Zhang , Shu Wu

Training robust deep learning (DL) systems for medical image classification or segmentation is challenging due to limited images covering different disease types and severity. We propose an active learning (AL) framework to select most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Dwarikanath Mahapatra , Behzad Bozorgtabar , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Mauricio Reyes

Depth estimation is a traditional computer vision task, which plays a crucial role in understanding 3D scene geometry. Recently, deep-convolutional-neural-networks based methods have achieved promising results in the monocular depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Yuru Chen , Haitao Zhao , Zhengwei Hu

During the last half decade, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have triumphed over semantic segmentation, which is one of the core tasks in many applications such as autonomous driving. However, to train CNNs requires a considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Yang Zhang , Philip David , Boqing Gong

Recently, deep learning has represented an important research trend in human activity recognition (HAR). In particular, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance on various HAR datasets. For deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Xin Cheng , Lei Zhang , Yin Tang , Yue Liu , Hao Wu , Jun He

Active learning seeks to achieve strong performance with fewer training samples. It does this by iteratively asking an oracle to label new selected samples in a human-in-the-loop manner. This technique has gained increasing popularity due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Dongyuan Li , Zhen Wang , Yankai Chen , Renhe Jiang , Weiping Ding , Manabu Okumura