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The performance of object detection, to a great extent, depends on the availability of large annotated datasets. To alleviate the annotation cost, the research community has explored a number of ways to exploit unlabeled or weakly labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Shijie Fang , Yuhang Cao , Xinjiang Wang , Kai Chen , Dahua Lin , Wayne Zhang

Existing methods for large-scale point cloud semantic segmentation require expensive, tedious and error-prone manual point-wise annotations. Intuitively, weakly supervised training is a direct solution to reduce the cost of labeling.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Yachao Zhang , Zonghao Li , Yuan Xie , Yanyun Qu , Cuihua Li , Tao Mei

Supervised learning typically focuses on learning transferable representations from training examples annotated by humans. While rich annotations (like soft labels) carry more information than sparse annotations (like hard labels), they are…

Partial multi-label learning and complementary multi-label learning are two popular weakly supervised multi-label classification paradigms that aim to alleviate the high annotation costs of collecting precisely annotated multi-label data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Wei Wang , Tianhao Ma , Ming-Kun Xie , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama

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

Many structured prediction problems (particularly in vision and language domains) are ambiguous, with multiple outputs being correct for an input - e.g. there are many ways of describing an image, multiple ways of translating a sentence;…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-11 Ashwin Kalyan , Stefan Lee , Anitha Kannan , Dhruv Batra

Annotating time boundaries of sound events is labor-intensive, limiting the scalability of strongly supervised learning in audio detection. To reduce annotation costs, weakly-supervised learning with only clip-level labels has been widely…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Keisuke Imoto

Weakly supervised data are widespread and have attracted much attention. However, since label quality is often difficult to guarantee, sometimes the use of weakly supervised data will lead to unsatisfactory performance, i.e., performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Lan-Zhe Guo , Yu-Feng Li , Ming Li , Jin-Feng Yi , Bo-Wen Zhou , Zhi-Hua Zhou

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

3D semantic scene understanding tasks have achieved great success with the emergence of deep learning, but often require a huge amount of manually annotated training data. To alleviate the annotation cost, we propose the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Shichao Dong , Guosheng Lin

Transfer learning is a powerful way to adapt existing deep learning models to new emerging use-cases in remote sensing. Starting from a neural network already trained for semantic segmentation, we propose to modify its label space to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Gaston Lenczner , Adrien Chan-Hon-Tong , Nicola Luminari , Bertrand Le Saux

Weakly supervised LiDAR semantic segmentation has made significant strides with limited labeled data. However, most existing methods focus on the network training under weak supervision, while efficient annotation strategies remain largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yilong Chen , Zongyi Xu , xiaoshui Huang , Ruicheng Zhang , Xinqi Jiang , Xinbo Gao

Unlike fully supervised semantic segmentation, weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) relies on weaker forms of supervision to perform dense prediction tasks. Among the various types of weak supervision, WSSS with image level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Zheyuan Zhang , Wang Zhang

Recent Weak Supervision (WS) approaches have had widespread success in easing the bottleneck of labeling training data for machine learning by synthesizing labels from multiple potentially noisy supervision sources. However, proper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Jieyu Zhang , Yue Yu , Yinghao Li , Yujing Wang , Yaming Yang , Mao Yang , Alexander Ratner

Multi-label image classification, which can be categorized into label-dependency and region-based methods, is a challenging problem due to the complex underlying object layouts. Although region-based methods are less likely to encounter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Jiawei Zhan , Jun Liu , Wei Tang , Guannan Jiang , Xi Wang , Bin-Bin Gao , Tianliang Zhang , Wenlong Wu , Wei Zhang , Chengjie Wang , Yuan Xie

In this thesis, we develop theoretical, algorithmic and experimental contributions for Machine Learning with limited labels, and more specifically for the tasks of Image Classification and Object Detection in Computer Vision. In a first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Quentin Bouniot

Weakly supervised segmentation requires assigning a label to every pixel based on training instances with partial annotations such as image-level tags, object bounding boxes, labeled points and scribbles. This task is challenging, as coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Tsung-Wei Ke , Jyh-Jing Hwang , Stella X. Yu

In this work, we introduce a novel framework that employs cluster annotation to boost active learning by reducing the number of human interactions required to train deep neural networks. Instead of annotating single samples individually,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Fábio Perez , Rémi Lebret , Karl Aberer

Learning algorithms normally assume that there is at most one annotation or label per data point. However, in some scenarios, such as medical diagnosis and on-line collaboration,multiple annotations may be available. In either case,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Yan Yan , Romer Rosales , Glenn Fung , Jennifer Dy

Leveraging weak or noisy supervision for building effective machine learning models has long been an important research problem. Its importance has further increased recently due to the growing need for large-scale datasets to train deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Guoqing Zheng , Ahmed Hassan Awadallah , Susan Dumais