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Weakly supervised LiDAR semantic segmentation has made significant strides with limited labeled data. However, most existing methods focus on the network training under weak supervision, while efficient annotation strategies remain largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yilong Chen , Zongyi Xu , xiaoshui Huang , Ruicheng Zhang , Xinqi Jiang , Xinbo Gao

Accurately annotating multiple 3D objects in LiDAR scenes is laborious and challenging. While a few previous studies have attempted to leverage semi-automatic methods for cost-effective bounding box annotation, such methods have limitations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Dongmin Choi , Wonwoo Cho , Kangyeol Kim , Jaegul Choo

Whilst the availability of 3D LiDAR point cloud data has significantly grown in recent years, annotation remains expensive and time-consuming, leading to a demand for semi-supervised semantic segmentation methods with application domains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Li Li , Hubert P. H. Shum , Toby P. Breckon

This paper introduces a novel physical annotation system designed to generate training data for automated optical inspection. The system uses pointer-based in-situ interaction to transfer the valuable expertise of trained inspection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Oliver Krumpek , Oliver Heimann , Jörg Krüger

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have driven the adoption of copilots in complex technical scenarios, underscoring the growing need for specialized information retrieval solutions. In this paper, we introduce FLAIR, a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-20 William Zhang , Yiwen Zhu , Yunlei Lu , Mathieu Demarne , Wenjing Wang , Kai Deng , Nutan Sahoo , Katherine Lin , Miso Cilimdzic , Subru Krishnan

Data annotation is essential for supervised learning, yet producing accurate, unbiased, and scalable labels remains challenging as datasets grow in size and modality. Traditional human-centric pipelines are costly, slow, and prone to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Subhodeep Ghosh , Bayan Divaaniaazar , Md Ishat-E-Rabban , Spencer Clarke , Senjuti Basu Roy

Learning-based street scene semantic understanding in autonomous driving (AD) has advanced significantly recently, but the performance of the AD model is heavily dependent on the quantity and quality of the annotated training data. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Wei-Bin Kou , Guangxu Zhu , Rongguang Ye , Shuai Wang , Ming Tang , Yik-Chung Wu

While surface normals are widely used to analyse 3D scene geometry, surface normal estimation from LiDAR point clouds remains severely underexplored. This is caused by the lack of large-scale annotated datasets on the one hand, and lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Dušan Malić , Christian Fruhwirth-Reisinger , Samuel Schulter , Horst Possegger

Despite growing interest in using large language models (LLMs) to automate annotation, their effectiveness in complex, nuanced, and multi-dimensional labelling tasks remains relatively underexplored. This study focuses on annotation for the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Leila Tavakoli , Hamed Zamani

Mask-based annotation of medical images, especially for 3D data, is a bottleneck in developing reliable machine learning models. Using minimal-labor user interactions (UIs) to guide the annotation is promising, but challenges remain on best…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Ashwin Raju , Zhanghexuan Ji , Chi Tung Cheng , Jinzheng Cai , Junzhou Huang , Jing Xiao , Le Lu , ChienHung Liao , Adam P. Harrison

Current state-of-the-art (SOTA) 3D object detection methods often require a large amount of 3D bounding box annotations for training. However, collecting such large-scale densely-supervised datasets is notoriously costly. To reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Chenqiang Gao , Chuandong Liu , Jun Shu , Fangcen Liu , Jiang Liu , Luyu Yang , Xinbo Gao , Deyu Meng

We present MAFA (Multi-Agent Framework for Annotation), a production-deployed system that transforms enterprise-scale annotation workflows through configurable multi-agent collaboration. Addressing the critical challenge of annotation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Mahmood Hegazy , Aaron Rodrigues , Azzam Naeem

We introduce AnnoABSA, the first web-based annotation tool to support the full spectrum of Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) tasks. The tool is highly customizable, enabling flexible configuration of sentiment elements and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Nils Constantin Hellwig , Jakob Fehle , Udo Kruschwitz , Christian Wolff

Labeling visual data is expensive and time-consuming. Crowdsourcing systems promise to enable highly parallelizable annotations through the participation of monetarily or otherwise motivated workers, but even this approach has its limits.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Christopher Klugmann , Rafid Mahmood , Guruprasad Hegde , Amit Kale , Daniel Kondermann

Computer vision methods are increasingly used for the automated analysis of large volumes of video data collected through camera traps, drones, or direct observations of animals in the wild. While recent advances have focused primarily on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Ozan Kanbertay , Richard Vogg , Elif Karakoc , Peter M. Kappeler , Claudia Fichtel , Alexander S. Ecker

We present a self-supervised learning approach for the semantic segmentation of lidar frames. Our method is used to train a deep point cloud segmentation architecture without any human annotation. The annotation process is automated with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Hugues Thomas , Ben Agro , Mona Gridseth , Jian Zhang , Timothy D. Barfoot

Data annotation in autonomous vehicles is a critical step in the development of Deep Neural Network (DNN) based models or the performance evaluation of the perception system. This often takes the form of adding 3D bounding boxes on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Ajinkya Khoche , Aron Asefaw , Alejandro Gonzalez , Bogdan Timus , Sina Sharif Mansouri , Patric Jensfelt

This report presents the design and implementation of a semi-automated data annotation pipeline developed within the DARTS project, whose goal is to create a large-scale, multimodal dataset of driving scenarios recorded in Polish…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Andrii Gamalii , Daniel Górniak , Robert Nowak , Bartłomiej Olber , Krystian Radlak , Jakub Winter

Document images often have intricate layout structures, with numerous content regions (e.g. texts, figures, tables) densely arranged on each page. This makes the manual annotation of layout datasets expensive and inefficient. These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Zejiang Shen , Jian Zhao , Melissa Dell , Yaoliang Yu , Weining Li

LiDAR registration is a fundamental task in robotic mapping and localization. A critical component of aligning two point clouds is identifying robust point correspondences using point descriptors. This step becomes particularly challenging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Niclas Vödisch , Giovanni Cioffi , Marco Cannici , Wolfram Burgard , Davide Scaramuzza