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Non-intrusive speech quality assessment is a crucial operation in multimedia applications. The scarcity of annotated data and the lack of a reference signal represent some of the main challenges for designing efficient quality assessment…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-20 Alessandro Ragano , Emmanouil Benetos , Andrew Hines

In this paper, we answer the question of when inserting label noise (less informative labels) can instead return us more accurate and fair models. We are primarily inspired by three observations: 1) In contrast to reducing label noise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Yang Liu , Jialu Wang

Statistically consistent methods based on the noise transition matrix ($T$) offer a theoretically grounded solution to Learning with Noisy Labels (LNL), with guarantees of convergence to the optimal clean-data classifier. In practice,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Chen Feng , Zhuo Zhi , Zhao Huang , Jiawei Ge , Ling Xiao , Nicu Sebe , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Ioannis Patras

In this paper, we present a label transfer model from texts to images for image classification tasks. The problem of image classification is often much more challenging than text classification. On one hand, labeled text data is more widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Guo-Jun Qi , Wei Liu , Charu Aggarwal , Thomas Huang

There is an emerging trend to leverage noisy image datasets in many visual recognition tasks. However, the label noise among the datasets severely degenerates the \mbox{performance of deep} learning approaches. Recently, one mainstream is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Jiangchao Yao , Jiajie Wang , Ivor Tsang , Ya Zhang , Jun Sun , Chengqi Zhang , Rui Zhang

The ability of learning from noisy labels is very useful in many visual recognition tasks, as a vast amount of data with noisy labels are relatively easy to obtain. Traditionally, the label noises have been treated as statistical outliers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Yuncheng Li , Jianchao Yang , Yale Song , Liangliang Cao , Jiebo Luo , Li-Jia Li

Supervised learning depends on annotated examples, which are taken to be the \emph{ground truth}. But these labels often come from noisy crowdsourcing platforms, like Amazon Mechanical Turk. Practitioners typically collect multiple labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Ashish Khetan , Zachary C. Lipton , Anima Anandkumar

We propose a novel sample selection method for image classification in the presence of noisy labels. Existing methods typically consider small-loss samples as correctly labeled. However, some correctly labeled samples are inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Weiran Pan , Wei Wei , Feida Zhu , Yong Deng

Learning from multiple annotators aims to induce a high-quality classifier from training instances, where each of them is associated with a set of possibly noisy labels provided by multiple annotators under the influence of their varying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Jingzheng Li , Hailong Sun , Jiyi Li , Zhijun Chen , Renshuai Tao , Yufei Ge

High-quality data is necessary for modern machine learning. However, the acquisition of such data is difficult due to noisy and ambiguous annotations of humans. The aggregation of such annotations to determine the label of an image leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Lars Schmarje , Vasco Grossmann , Claudius Zelenka , Sabine Dippel , Rainer Kiko , Mariusz Oszust , Matti Pastell , Jenny Stracke , Anna Valros , Nina Volkmann , Reinhard Koch

Training deep neural networks (DNNs) in the presence of noisy labels is an important and challenging task. Probabilistic modeling, which consists of a classifier and a transition matrix, depicts the transformation from true labels to noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Xianbin Lv , Dongxian Wu , Shu-Tao Xia

The robustness of supervised deep learning-based medical image classification is significantly undermined by label noise. Although several methods have been proposed to enhance classification performance in the presence of noisy labels,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Bidur Khanal , Tianhong Dai , Binod Bhattarai , Cristian Linte

Label noise is a common problem in real-world datasets, affecting both model training and validation. Clean data are essential for achieving strong performance and ensuring reliable evaluation. While various techniques have been proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Henrique Pickler , Jorge K. S. Kamassury , Danilo Silva

To collect large scale annotated data, it is inevitable to introduce label noise, i.e., incorrect class labels. To be robust against label noise, many successful methods rely on the noisy classifiers (i.e., models trained on the noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Songzhu Zheng , Pengxiang Wu , Aman Goswami , Mayank Goswami , Dimitris Metaxas , Chao Chen

Relying on large-scale training data with pixel-level labels, previous edge detection methods have achieved high performance. However, it is hard to manually label edges accurately, especially for large datasets, and thus the datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Wenjie Xuan , Shanshan Zhao , Yu Yao , Juhua Liu , Tongliang Liu , Yixin Chen , Bo Du , Dacheng Tao

Despite the success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in image classification tasks, the human-level performance relies on massive training data with high-quality manual annotations, which are expensive and time-consuming to collect. There…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Junnan Li , Yongkang Wong , Qi Zhao , Mohan Kankanhalli

As an open research topic in the field of deep learning, learning with noisy labels has attracted much attention and grown rapidly over the past ten years. Learning with label noise is crucial for driver distraction behavior recognition, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Linjuan Fan , Di Wen , Kunyu Peng , Kailun Yang , Jiaming Zhang , Ruiping Liu , Yufan Chen , Junwei Zheng , Jiamin Wu , Xudong Han , Rainer Stiefelhagen

We explore contemporary robust classification algorithms for overcoming class-dependant labelling noise: Forward, Importance Re-weighting and T-revision. The classifiers are trained and evaluated on class-conditional random label noise data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Alex Díaz , Damian Steele

High-quality pixel-level annotations are essential for the semantic segmentation of remote sensing imagery. However, such labels are expensive to obtain and often affected by noise due to the labor-intensive and time-consuming nature of…

Label noise presents a fundamental challenge in modern machine learning, especially when large-scale datasets are generated via automated processes. An increasingly common and important data paradigm, particularly in domains like medical…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-29 Zhu Guojun , Zhang Sanguo , Ren Mingyang