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Segmentation is essential for medical image analysis tasks such as intervention planning, therapy guidance, diagnosis, treatment decisions. Deep learning is becoming increasingly prominent for segmentation, where the lack of annotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Firat Ozdemir , Zixuan Peng , Christine Tanner , Philipp Fuernstahl , Orcun Goksel

Most existing point cloud instance and semantic segmentation methods rely heavily on strong supervision signals, which require point-level labels for every point in the scene. However, such strong supervision suffers from large annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 An Tao , Yueqi Duan , Yi Wei , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

Semantic segmentation demands dense pixel-level annotations, which can be prohibitively expensive - especially under extremely constrained labeling budgets. In this paper, we address the problem of low-budget active learning for semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jeongin Kim , Wonho Bae , YouLee Han , Giyeong Oh , Youngjae Yu , Danica J. Sutherland , Junhyug Noh

Active learning focuses on choosing a subset of unlabeled data to be labeled. However, most such methods assume that a large subset of the data can be annotated. We are interested in low-budget active learning where only a small subset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Kossar Pourahmadi , Parsa Nooralinejad , Hamed Pirsiavash

Existing methods for large-scale point cloud semantic segmentation require expensive, tedious and error-prone manual point-wise annotations. Intuitively, weakly supervised training is a direct solution to reduce the cost of labeling.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Yachao Zhang , Zonghao Li , Yuan Xie , Yanyun Qu , Cuihua Li , Tao Mei

Point cloud analysis has received much attention recently; and segmentation is one of the most important tasks. The success of existing approaches is attributed to deep network design and large amount of labelled training data, where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Xun Xu , Gim Hee Lee

Active learning aims to address the paucity of labeled data by finding the most informative samples. However, when applying to semantic segmentation, existing methods ignore the segmentation difficulty of different semantic areas, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Shuai Xie , Zunlei Feng , Ying Chen , Songtao Sun , Chao Ma , Mingli Song

While there are novel point cloud semantic segmentation schemes that continuously surpass state-of-the-art results, the success of learning an effective model usually rely on the availability of abundant labeled data. However, data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Puzuo Wang , Wei Yao

Deep learning has achieved widespread success in medical image analysis, leading to an increasing demand for large-scale expert-annotated medical image datasets. Yet, the high cost of annotating medical images severely hampers the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Haoran Wang , Qiuye Jin , Shiman Li , Siyu Liu , Manning Wang , Zhijian Song

Active learning aims to reduce the high labeling cost involved in training machine learning models on large datasets by efficiently labeling only the most informative samples. Recently, deep active learning has shown success on various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Sudhanshu Mittal , Maxim Tatarchenko , Özgün Çiçek , Thomas Brox

Reliance on vast annotations to achieve leading performance severely restricts the practicality of large-scale point cloud semantic segmentation. For the purpose of reducing data annotation costs, effective labeling schemes are developed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Puzuo Wang , Wei Yao , Jie Shao

The process of segmenting point cloud data into several homogeneous areas with points in the same region having the same attributes is known as 3D segmentation. Segmentation is challenging with point cloud data due to substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Siddiqui Muhammad Yasir , Hyunsik Ahn

Active learning is an effective technique for reducing the labeling cost by improving data efficiency. In this work, we propose a novel batch acquisition strategy for active learning in the setting where the model training is performed in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Zalán Borsos , Marco Tagliasacchi , Andreas Krause

Semantic segmentation is crucial in remote sensing, where high-resolution satellite images are segmented into meaningful regions. Recent advancements in deep learning have significantly improved satellite image segmentation. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Santiago Rivier , Carlos Hinojosa , Silvio Giancola , Bernard Ghanem

Semantic segmentation of 3D point clouds is important for many applications, such as autonomous driving. To train semantic segmentation models, labeled point cloud segmentation datasets are essential. Meanwhile, point cloud labeling is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yu Zhang , Xinyi Zhao , Chongke Bi , Siming Chen

Point cloud semantic segmentation is a crucial task in 3D scene understanding. Existing methods mainly focus on employing a large number of annotated labels for supervised semantic segmentation. Nonetheless, manually labeling such large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Mingmei Cheng , Le Hui , Jin Xie , Jian Yang

Addressing the annotation challenge in 3D Point Cloud segmentation has inspired research into weakly supervised learning. Existing approaches mainly focus on exploiting manifold and pseudo-labeling to make use of large unlabeled data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Yongyi Su , Xun Xu , Kui Jia

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated exceptional performance across various image segmentation tasks. However, the process of preparing datasets for training segmentation DNNs is both labor-intensive and costly, as it typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Yixin Zhang , Shen Zhao , Hanxue Gu , Maciej A. Mazurowski

Vulnerability detection is crucial for identifying security weaknesses in software systems. However, training effective machine learning models for this task is often constrained by the high cost and expertise required for data annotation.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Xiang Lan , Tim Menzies , Bowen Xu

Automated skin lesion analysis is very crucial in clinical practice, as skin cancer is among the most common human malignancy. Existing approaches with deep learning have achieved remarkable performance on this challenging task, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Xueying Shi , Qi Dou , Cheng Xue , Jing Qin , Hao Chen , Pheng-Ann Heng