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Crowd counting plays a vital role in public safety, traffic regulation, and smart city management. However, despite the impressive progress achieved by CNN- and Transformer-based models, their performance often deteriorates when applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yuehai Chen

Computer vision systems require large amounts of manually annotated data to properly learn challenging visual concepts. Crowdsourcing platforms offer an inexpensive method to capture human knowledge and understanding, for a vast number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Adriana Kovashka , Olga Russakovsky , Li Fei-Fei , Kristen Grauman

The massive sensing data generated by Internet-of-Things will provide fuel for ubiquitous artificial intelligence (AI), automating the operations of our society ranging from transportation to healthcare. The realistic adoption of this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Xiaoyang Li , Guangxu Zhu , Kaiming Shen , Wei Yu , Yi Gong , Kaibin Huang

Mobile crowdsourcing refers to systems where the completion of tasks necessarily requires physical movement of crowdworkers in an on-demand workforce. Evidence suggests that in such systems, tasks often get assigned to crowdworkers who…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Ralf Bruns , Jeremias Dötterl , Jürgen Dunkel , Sascha Ossowski

Crowd understanding has aroused the widespread interest in vision domain due to its important practical significance. Unfortunately, there is no effort to explore crowd understanding in multi-modal domain that bridges natural language and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Heqian Qiu , Hongliang Li , Taijin Zhao , Lanxiao Wang , Qingbo Wu , Fanman Meng

We combine multi-task learning and semi-supervised learning by inducing a joint embedding space between disparate label spaces and learning transfer functions between label embeddings, enabling us to jointly leverage unlabelled data and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Isabelle Augenstein , Sebastian Ruder , Anders Søgaard

The Dawid-Skene model is the most widely assumed model in the analysis of crowdsourcing algorithms that estimate ground-truth labels from noisy worker responses. In this work, we are motivated by crowdsourcing applications where workers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Saptarshi Mandal , Seo Taek Kong , Dimitrios Katselis , R. Srikant

Crowdsourcing has been widely used to efficiently obtain labeled datasets for supervised learning from large numbers of human resources at low cost. However, one of the technical challenges in obtaining high-quality results from…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Ryosuke Ueda , Koh Takeuchi , Hisashi Kashima

Crowdsourcing platforms use various truth discovery algorithms to aggregate annotations from multiple labelers. In an online setting, however, the main challenge is to decide whether to ask for more annotations for each item to efficiently…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Reshef Meir , Viet-An Nguyen , Xu Chen , Jagdish Ramakrishnan , Udi Weinsberg

The paradigm of machine intelligence moves from purely supervised learning to a more practical scenario when many loosely related unlabeled data are available and labeled data is scarce. Most existing algorithms assume that the underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Zhenyi Wang , Li Shen , Le Fang , Qiuling Suo , Donglin Zhan , Tiehang Duan , Mingchen Gao

We study the problem of organizing a collection of objects - images, videos - into clusters, using crowdsourcing. This problem is notoriously hard for computers to do automatically, and even with crowd workers, is challenging to…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Ayush Jain , Joon Young Seo , Karan Goel , Andrew Kuznetsov , Aditya Parameswaran , Hari Sundaram

We propose a streaming algorithm for the binary classification of data based on crowdsourcing. The algorithm learns the competence of each labeller by comparing her labels to those of other labellers on the same tasks and uses this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-24 Thomas Bonald , Richard Combes

Working with annotated data is the cornerstone of supervised learning. Nevertheless, providing labels to instances is a task that requires significant human effort. Several critical real-world applications make things more complicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Erencem Ozbey , Dimitrios I. Diochnos

One of the fundamental problems in crowdsourcing is the trade-off between the number of the workers needed for high-accuracy aggregation and the budget to pay. For saving budget, it is important to ensure high quality of the crowd-sourced…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Yao-Xiang Ding , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Human annotated data plays a crucial role in machine learning (ML) research and development. However, the ethical considerations around the processes and decisions that go into dataset annotation have not received nearly enough attention.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Mark Diaz , Ian D. Kivlichan , Rachel Rosen , Dylan K. Baker , Razvan Amironesei , Vinodkumar Prabhakaran , Emily Denton

Crowdsourcing is a multidisciplinary research area including disciplines like artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, database, and social science. To facilitate cooperation across disciplines, reproducibility is a crucial…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Ruochen Jiang , Jiannan Wang

Crowdsourcing allows to instantly recruit workers on the web to annotate image, web page, or document databases. However, worker unreliability prevents taking a workers responses at face value. Thus, responses from multiple workers are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-07-31 Aditya Kurve , David J Miller , George Kesidis

Crowdsourcing annotations has created a paradigm shift in the availability of labeled data for machine learning. Availability of large datasets has accelerated progress in common knowledge applications involving visual and language data.…

Data labeling is a necessary but often slow process that impedes the development of interactive systems for modern data analysis. Despite rising demand for manual data labeling, there is a surprising lack of work addressing its high and…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Daniel Haas , Jiannan Wang , Eugene Wu , Michael J. Franklin

Generalising deep networks to novel domains without manual labels is challenging to deep learning. This problem is intrinsically difficult due to unpredictable changing nature of imagery data distributions in novel domains. Pre-learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Jiabo Huang , Shaogang Gong