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Mislabeled samples are ubiquitous in real-world datasets as rule-based or expert labeling is usually based on incorrect assumptions or subject to biased opinions. Neural networks can "memorize" these mislabeled samples and, as a result,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Katharina Rombach , Gabriel Michau , Olga Fink

Major advancements in computer vision can primarily be attributed to the use of labeled datasets. However, acquiring labels for datasets often results in errors which can harm model performance. Recent works have proposed methods to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Maya Srikanth , Jeremy Irvin , Brian Wesley Hill , Felipe Godoy , Ishan Sabane , Andrew Y. Ng

In this study we provide empirical evidence demonstrating that the quality of training data impacts model performance in Human Pose Estimation (HPE). Inaccurate labels in widely used data sets, ranging from minor errors to severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Arnold Schwarz , Levente Hernadi , Felix Bießmann , Kristian Hildebrand

ImageNet has been arguably the most popular image classification benchmark, but it is also the one with a significant level of label noise. Recent studies have shown that many samples contain multiple classes, despite being assumed to be a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Sangdoo Yun , Seong Joon Oh , Byeongho Heo , Dongyoon Han , Junsuk Choe , Sanghyuk Chun

In this paper, we study the problem of learning image classification models with label noise. Existing approaches depending on human supervision are generally not scalable as manually identifying correct or incorrect labels is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Kuang-Huei Lee , Xiaodong He , Lei Zhang , Linjun Yang

Machine learning (ML) models are only as good as the data they are trained on. But recent studies have found datasets widely used to train and evaluate ML models, e.g. ImageNet, to have pervasive labeling errors. Erroneous labels on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Mononito Goswami , Vedant Sanil , Arjun Choudhry , Arvind Srinivasan , Chalisa Udompanyawit , Artur Dubrawski

Training data plays an essential role in modern applications of machine learning. However, gathering labeled training data is time-consuming. Therefore, labeling is often outsourced to less experienced users, or completely automated. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Alex Bäuerle , Heiko Neumann , Timo Ropinski

Incorrectly labeled examples, or label noise, is common in real-world computer vision datasets. While the impact of label noise on learning in deep neural networks has been studied in prior work, these studies have exclusively focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Bidur Khanal , Christopher Kanan

Supervised training of deep learning models requires large labeled datasets. There is a growing interest in obtaining such datasets for medical image analysis applications. However, the impact of label noise has not received sufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Davood Karimi , Haoran Dou , Simon K. Warfield , Ali Gholipour

Object detection has advanced rapidly in recent years, driven by increasingly large and diverse datasets. However, label errors often compromise the quality of these datasets and affect the outcomes of training and benchmark evaluations.…

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Because deep learning is vulnerable to noisy labels, sample selection techniques, which train networks with only clean labeled data, have attracted a great attention. However, if the labels are dominantly corrupted by few classes, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Kyeongbo Kong , Junggi Lee , Youngchul Kwak , Young-Rae Cho , Seong-Eun Kim , Woo-Jin Song

Mislabeled examples are ubiquitous in real-world machine learning datasets, advocating the development of techniques for automatic detection. We show that most mislabeled detection methods can be viewed as probing trained machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Thomas George , Pierre Nodet , Alexis Bondu , Vincent Lemaire

While mislabeled or ambiguously-labeled samples in the training set could negatively affect the performance of deep models, diagnosing the dataset and identifying mislabeled samples helps to improve the generalization power. Training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Qingrui Jia , Xuhong Li , Lei Yu , Jiang Bian , Penghao Zhao , Shupeng Li , Haoyi Xiong , Dejing Dou

Labeled datasets for semantic segmentation are imperfect, especially in medical imaging where borders are often subtle or ill-defined. Little work has been done to analyze the effect that label errors have on the performance of segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Nicholas Heller , Joshua Dean , Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos

Machine learning classification systems are susceptible to poor performance when trained with incorrect ground truth labels, even when data is well-curated by expert annotators. As machine learning becomes more widespread, it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Zan Chaudhry , Noam H. Rotenberg , Brian Caffo , Craig K. Jones , Haris I. Sair

The study of label noise in sound event recognition has recently gained attention with the advent of larger and noisier datasets. This work addresses the problem of missing labels, one of the big weaknesses of large audio datasets, and one…

Label noise detection has been widely studied in Machine Learning because of its importance in improving training data quality. Satisfactory noise detection has been achieved by adopting ensembles of classifiers. In this approach, an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Kecia G. Moura , Ricardo B. C. Prudêncio , George D. C. Cavalcanti

State-of-the-art, high capacity deep neural networks not only require large amounts of labelled training data, they are also highly susceptible to label errors in this data, typically resulting in large efforts and costs and therefore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Christian Haase-Schütz , Rainer Stal , Heinz Hertlein , Bernhard Sick

Distant and weak supervision allow to obtain large amounts of labeled training data quickly and cheaply, but these automatic annotations tend to contain a high amount of errors. A popular technique to overcome the negative effects of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Michael A. Hedderich , Dawei Zhu , Dietrich Klakow

Label noise in the sense of incorrect labels is present in many real-world data sets and is known to severely limit the generalizability of deep learning models. In the field of remote sensing, however, automated treatment of label noise in…

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