English
Related papers

Related papers: Learning from Multiple Expert Annotators for Enhan…

200 papers

Large-scale datasets are important for the development of deep learning models. Such datasets usually require a heavy workload of annotations, which are extremely time-consuming and expensive. To accelerate the annotation procedure,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Xiaoqian Ruan , Gaoang Wang

We propose a fully Bayesian framework for learning ground truth labels from noisy annotators. Our framework ensures scalability by factoring a generative, Bayesian soft clustering model over label distributions into the classic David and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya , Alexander G. Ororbia , Christopher M. Homan

In machine learning the best performance on a certain task is achieved by fully supervised methods when perfect ground truth labels are available. However, labels are often noisy, especially in remote sensing where manually curated public…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Nicolas Girard , Guillaume Charpiat , Yuliya Tarabalka

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

In the field of image classification, existing methods often struggle with biased or ambiguous data, a prevalent issue in real-world scenarios. Current strategies, including semi-supervised learning and class blending, offer partial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Lars Schmarje , Vasco Grossmann , Claudius Zelenka , Johannes Brünger , Reinhard Koch

While the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for medical image analysis is gaining wide acceptance, the expertise, time and cost required to generate annotated data in the medical field are significantly high, due to limited availability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Abhishek Kushwaha , Sarthak Gupta , Anish Bhanushali , Tathagato Rai Dastidar

A popular approach for large scale data annotation tasks is crowdsourcing, wherein each data point is labeled by multiple noisy annotators. We consider the problem of inferring ground truth from noisy ordinal labels obtained from multiple…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-05-02 Balaji Lakshminarayanan , Yee Whye Teh

Subjective NLP tasks usually rely on human annotations provided by multiple annotators, whose judgments may vary due to their diverse backgrounds and life experiences. Traditional methods often aggregate multiple annotations into a single…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Benedetta Muscato , Praveen Bushipaka , Gizem Gezici , Lucia Passaro , Fosca Giannotti

The success of medical image segmentation usually requires a large number of high-quality labels. But since the labeling process is usually affected by the raters' varying skill levels and characteristics, the estimated masks provided by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Ming Li , Wei Shen , Qingli Li , Yan Wang

Density of mitotic figures in histologic sections is a prognostically relevant characteristic for many tumours. Due to high inter-pathologist variability, deep learning-based algorithms are a promising solution to improve tumour…

Incorporating every annotator's perspective is crucial for unbiased data modeling. Annotator fatigue and changing opinions over time can distort dataset annotations. To combat this, we propose to learn a more accurate representation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Uthman Jinadu , Yi Ding

Deep neural networks are known to be data-driven and label noise can have a marked impact on model performance. Recent studies have shown great robustness to classic image recognition even under a high noisy rate. In medical applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Lie Ju , Xin Wang , Lin Wang , Dwarikanath Mahapatra , Xin Zhao , Mehrtash Harandi , Tom Drummond , Tongliang Liu , Zongyuan Ge

Supervised classification algorithms are used to solve a growing number of real-life problems around the globe. Their performance is strictly connected with the quality of labels used in training. Unfortunately, acquiring good-quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Daniel Kałuża , Andrzej Janusz , Dominik Ślęzak

Falsely annotated samples, also known as noisy labels, can significantly harm the performance of deep learning models. Two main approaches for learning with noisy labels are global noise estimation and data filtering. Global noise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yuval Grinberg , Nimrod Harel , Jacob Goldberger , Ofir Lindenbaum

Predicting all applicable labels for a given image is known as multi-label classification. Compared to the standard multi-class case (where each image has only one label), it is considerably more challenging to annotate training data for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Elijah Cole , Oisin Mac Aodha , Titouan Lorieul , Pietro Perona , Dan Morris , Nebojsa Jojic

In multi-label classification, each example in a dataset may be annotated as belonging to one or more classes (or none of the classes). Example applications include image (or document) tagging where each possible tag either applies to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Aditya Thyagarajan , Elías Snorrason , Curtis Northcutt , Jonas Mueller

Partly due to the use of exhaustive-annotated data, deep networks have achieved impressive performance on medical image segmentation. Medical imaging data paired with noisy annotation are, however, ubiquitous, but little is known about the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-16 Shaode Yu , Erlei Zhang , Junjie Wu , Hang Yu , Zi Yang , Lin Ma , Mingli Chen , Xuejun Gu , Weiguo Lu

Annotators exhibit disagreement during data labeling, which can be termed as annotator label uncertainty. Annotator label uncertainty manifests in variations of labeling quality. Training with a single low-quality annotation per sample…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Chen Zhou , Mohit Prabhushankar , Ghassan AlRegib

Deep learning methods have achieved promising performance in many areas, but they are still struggling with noisy-labeled images during the training process. Considering that the annotation quality indispensably relies on great expertise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Haidong Zhu , Jialin Shi , Ji Wu

Diagnosis based on medical images, such as X-ray images, often involves manual annotation of anatomical keypoints. However, this process involves significant human efforts and can thus be a bottleneck in the diagnostic process. To fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jinhee Kim , Taesung Kim , Taewoo Kim , Jaegul Choo , Dong-Wook Kim , Byungduk Ahn , In-Seok Song , Yoon-Ji Kim