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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,…

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We present a new active learning algorithm that adaptively partitions the input space into a finite number of regions, and subsequently seeks a distinct predictor for each region, both phases actively requesting labels. We prove theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Corinna Cortes , Giulia DeSalvo , Claudio Gentile , Mehryar Mohri , Ningshan Zhang

Learning semantic segmentation requires pixel-wise annotations, which can be time-consuming and expensive. To reduce the annotation cost, we propose a superpixel-based active learning (AL) framework, which collects a dominant label per…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Hoyoung Kim , Minhyeon Oh , Sehyun Hwang , Suha Kwak , Jungseul Ok

Annotation-efficient segmentation of the numerous mitochondria instances from various electron microscopy (EM) images is highly valuable for biological and neuroscience research. Although unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) methods can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Shan Xiong , Jiabao Chen , Ye Wang , Jialin Peng

Active learning improves annotation efficiency by selecting the most informative samples for annotation and model training. While most prior work has focused on selecting informative images for classification tasks, we investigate the more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jingna Qiu , Frauke Wilm , Mathias Öttl , Jonas Utz , Maja Schlereth , Moritz Schillinger , Marc Aubreville , Katharina Breininger

In the field of domain adaptation, a trade-off exists between the model performance and the number of target domain annotations. Active learning, maximizing model performance with few informative labeled data, comes in handy for such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Tsung-Han Wu , Yi-Syuan Liou , Shao-Ji Yuan , Hsin-Ying Lee , Tung-I Chen , Kuan-Chih Huang , Winston H. Hsu

Domain adaptive semantic segmentation is recognized as a promising technique to alleviate the domain shift between the labeled source domain and the unlabeled target domain in many real-world applications, such as automatic pilot. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Fuming You , Jingjing Li , Lei Zhu , Ke Lu , Zhi Chen , Zi Huang

Semantic segmentation plays an important role in intelligent vehicles, providing pixel-level semantic information about the environment. However, the labeling budget is expensive and time-consuming when semantic segmentation model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Weihao Yan , Yeqiang Qian , Yueyuan Li , Tao Li , Chunxiang Wang , Ming Yang

Deep learning-based solutions for semantic segmentation suffer from significant performance degradation when tested on data with different characteristics than what was used during the training. Adapting the models using annotated data from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Xingchen Zhao , Niluthpol Chowdhury Mithun , Abhinav Rajvanshi , Han-Pang Chiu , Supun Samarasekera

Although active learning (AL) in segmentation tasks enables experts to annotate selected regions of interest (ROIs) instead of entire images, it remains highly challenging, labor-intensive, and cognitively demanding due to the blurry and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Md Shazid Islam , Shreyangshu Bera , Sudipta Paul , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

It is desirable to transfer the knowledge stored in a well-trained source model onto non-annotated target domain in the absence of source data. However, state-of-the-art methods for source free domain adaptation (SFDA) are subject to strict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Xin Luo , Wei Chen , Yusong Tan , Chen Li , Yulin He , Xiaogang Jia

The divergence between labeled training data and unlabeled testing data is a significant challenge for recent deep learning models. Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) attempts to solve such a problem. Recent works show that self-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Ke Mei , Chuang Zhu , Jiaqi Zou , Shanghang Zhang

Deep learning has shown remarkable performance in medical image segmentation. However, despite its promise, deep learning has many challenges in practice due to its inability to effectively transition to unseen domains, caused by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Dewei Hu , Hao Li , Han Liu , Jiacheng Wang , Xing Yao , Daiwei Lu , Ipek Oguz

Semantic segmentation is an important technique for environment perception in intelligent transportation systems. With the rapid development of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), road scene analysis can usually achieve satisfactory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Licong Guan , Xue Yuan

Semi-supervised learning, which leverages both annotated and unannotated data, is an efficient approach for medical image segmentation, where obtaining annotations for the whole dataset is time-consuming and costly. Traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Ruizhe Li , Grazziela Figueredo , Dorothee Auer , Rob Dineen , Paul Morgan , Xin Chen

Semantic segmentation networks, which are essential for robotic perception, often suffer from performance degradation when the visual distribution of the deployment environment differs from that of the source dataset on which they were…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Michele Antonazzi , Lorenzo Signorelli , Matteo Luperto , Nicola Basilico

Recent deep networks achieved state of the art performance on a variety of semantic segmentation tasks. Despite such progress, these models often face challenges in real world `wild tasks' where large difference between labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Yang Zou , Zhiding Yu , B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar , Jinsong Wang

The divergence between labeled training data and unlabeled testing data is a significant challenge for recent deep learning models. Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) attempts to solve such problem. Recent works show that self-training is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Chuang Zhu , Kebin Liu , Wenqi Tang , Ke Mei , Jiaqi Zou , Tiejun Huang

In this work we propose a pragmatic method that reduces the annotation cost for structured label spaces using active learning. Our approach leverages partial annotation, which reduces labeling costs for structured outputs by selecting only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Zhisong Zhang , Emma Strubell , Eduard Hovy

This paper presents a simple yet effective two-stage framework for semi-supervised medical image segmentation. Unlike prior state-of-the-art semi-supervised segmentation methods that predominantly rely on pseudo supervision directly on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Huimin Wu , Xiaomeng Li , Kwang-Ting Cheng