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Severity level estimation is a crucial task in medical image diagnosis. However, accurately assigning severity class labels to individual images is very costly and challenging. Consequently, the attached labels tend to be noisy. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Shumpei Takezaki , Kiyohito Tanaka , Seiichi Uchida

Annotators exhibit disagreement during data labeling, which can be termed as annotator label uncertainty. Annotator label uncertainty manifests in variations of labeling quality. Training with a single low-quality annotation per sample…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Chen Zhou , Mohit Prabhushankar , Ghassan AlRegib

Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) calls are prone to various speech impairments due to environmental and network conditions resulting in bad user experience. A reliable audio impairment classifier helps to identify the cause for bad audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Chandan K A Reddy , Ross Cutler , Johannes Gehrke

Semi-supervised learning aims to leverage a large amount of unlabeled data for performance boosting. Existing works primarily focus on image classification. In this paper, we delve into semi-supervised learning for object detection, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Zhenyu Wang , Yali Li , Ye Guo , Shengjin Wang

The performance of supervised classification techniques often deteriorates when the data has noisy labels. Even the semi-supervised classification approaches have largely focused only on the problem of handling missing labels. Most of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Ashit Gupta , Anirudh Deodhar , Tathagata Mukherjee , Venkataramana Runkana

Labeling real-world datasets is time consuming but indispensable for supervised machine learning models. A common solution is to distribute the labeling task across a large number of non-expert workers via crowd-sourcing. Due to the varying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Taraneh Younesian , Chi Hong , Amirmasoud Ghiassi , Robert Birke , Lydia Y. Chen

Neural sequence labeling (NSL) aims at assigning labels for input language tokens, which covers a broad range of applications, such as named entity recognition (NER) and slot filling, etc. However, the satisfying results achieved by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Jianing Wang , Chengyu Wang , Jun Huang , Ming Gao , Aoying Zhou

This study explores the robustness of label noise classifiers, aiming to enhance model resilience against noisy data in complex real-world scenarios. Label noise in supervised learning, characterized by erroneous or imprecise labels,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Cheng Zeng , Yixuan Xu , Jiaqi Tian

Due to the expensive costs of collecting labels in multi-label classification datasets, partially annotated multi-label classification has become an emerging field in computer vision. One baseline approach to this task is to assume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Youngwook Kim , Jae Myung Kim , Jieun Jeong , Cordelia Schmid , Zeynep Akata , Jungwoo Lee

Deep learning has shown remarkable success in medical image analysis, but its reliance on large volumes of high-quality labeled data limits its applicability. While noisy labeled data are easier to obtain, directly incorporating them into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Chengxuan Qian , Kai Han , Jianxia Ding , Chongwen Lyu , Zhenlong Yuan , Jun Chen , Zhe Liu

Split Federated Learning (SplitFed) combines federated and split learning to preserve privacy while reducing client-side computation. However, in medical image segmentation, heterogeneous label quality across clients can significantly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Zahra Hafezi Kafshgari , Hadi Hadizadeh , Parvaneh Saeedi

Noisy labels can significantly impact medical image classification, particularly in deep learning, by corrupting learned features. Self-supervised pretraining, which doesn't rely on labeled data, can enhance robustness against noisy labels.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Bidur Khanal , Binod Bhattarai , Bishesh Khanal , Cristian Linte

Due to the publicly available thematic maps and crowd-sourced data, remote sensing (RS) image annotations can be gathered at zero cost for training deep neural networks (DNNs). However, such annotation sources may increase the risk of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Gencer Sumbul , Begüm Demir

Computer-aided diagnosis systems must make critical decisions from medical images that are often noisy, ambiguous, or conflicting, yet today's models are trained on overly simplistic labels that ignore diagnostic uncertainty. One-hot labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Ang Nan Gu , Michael Tsang , Hooman Vaseli , Purang Abolmaesumi , Teresa Tsang

The task of image segmentation is inherently noisy due to ambiguities regarding the exact location of boundaries between anatomical structures. We argue that this information can be extracted from the expert annotations at no extra cost,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Mobarakol Islam , Ben Glocker

Weak-strong consistency learning strategies are widely employed in semi-supervised medical image segmentation to train models by leveraging limited labeled data and enforcing weak-to-strong consistency. However, existing methods primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Chaowei Chen , Xiang Zhang , Honglie Guo , Shunfang Wang

Neural Encoders are frequently used in the NLP domain to perform dense retrieval tasks, for instance, to generate the candidate documents for a given query in question-answering tasks. However, sparse annotation and label noise in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Arnab Sharma

With the development of deep learning, medical image classification has been significantly improved. However, deep learning requires massive data with labels. While labeling the samples by human experts is expensive and time-consuming,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Jiarun Liu , Ruirui Li , Chuan Sun

Label noise is a common problem in real-world datasets, affecting both model training and validation. Clean data are essential for achieving strong performance and ensuring reliable evaluation. While various techniques have been proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Henrique Pickler , Jorge K. S. Kamassury , Danilo Silva

In low-resource settings, the performance of supervised labeling models can be improved with automatically annotated or distantly supervised data, which is cheap to create but often noisy. Previous works have shown that significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Lukas Lange , Michael A. Hedderich , Dietrich Klakow