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Automatic facial action unit (AU) recognition is a challenging task due to the scarcity of manual annotations. To alleviate this problem, a large amount of efforts has been dedicated to exploiting various weakly supervised methods which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Jingwei Yan , Jingjing Wang , Qiang Li , Chunmao Wang , Shiliang Pu

Domain adaptive person re-identification (re-ID) is a challenging task due to the large discrepancy between the source domain and the target domain. To reduce the domain discrepancy, existing methods mainly attempt to generate pseudo labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Junhui Yin , Jiayan Qiu , Siqing Zhang , Zhanyu Ma , Jun Guo

Facial action unit (AU) detection is a challenging task due to the scarcity of manual annotations. Recent works on AU detection with self-supervised learning have emerged to address this problem, aiming to learn meaningful AU…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Juan Song , Zhilei Liu

We propose a novel system for active semi-supervised feature-based action recognition. Given time sequences of features tracked during movements our system clusters the sequences into actions. Our system is based on encoder-decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Jingyuan Li , Eli Shlizerman

Action Unit (AU) detection aims at automatically caracterizing facial expressions with the muscular activations they involve. Its main interest is to provide a low-level face representation that can be used to assist higher level affective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Gauthier Tallec , Arnaud Dapogny , Kevin Bailly

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for breast ultrasound (BUS) image segmentation, but it often suffers from unstable pseudo labels under extremely limited annotations, leading to inaccurate supervision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Ruili Li , Jiayi Ding , Ruiyu Li , Yilun Jin , Shiwen Ge , Yuwen Zeng , Xiaoyong Zhang , Eichi Takaya , Jan Vrba , Noriyasu Homma

Training temporal action detection in videos requires large amounts of labeled data, yet such annotation is expensive to collect. Incorporating unlabeled or weakly-labeled data to train action detection model could help reduce annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Baifeng Shi , Qi Dai , Judy Hoffman , Kate Saenko , Trevor Darrell , Huijuan Xu

Stripe-like space target detection (SSTD) is crucial for space situational awareness. Traditional unsupervised methods often fail in low signal-to-noise ratio and variable stripe-like space targets scenarios, leading to weak generalization.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Zijian Zhu , Ali Zia , Xuesong Li , Bingbing Dan , Yuebo Ma , Hongfeng Long , Kaili Lu , Enhai Liu , Rujin Zhao

Attention mechanism has recently attracted increasing attentions in the field of facial action unit (AU) detection. By finding the region of interest of each AU with the attention mechanism, AU-related local features can be captured. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Zhiwen Shao , Zhilei Liu , Jianfei Cai , Yunsheng Wu , Lizhuang Ma

Facial expressions are combinations of basic components called Action Units (AU). Recognizing AUs is key for developing general facial expression analysis. In recent years, most efforts in automatic AU recognition have been dedicated to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Ciprian A. Corneanu , Meysam Madadi , Sergio Escalera

Current state-of-the-art methods for skeleton-based action recognition are supervised and rely on labels. The reliance is limiting the performance due to the challenges involved in annotation and mislabeled data. Unsupervised methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Jingyuan Li , Eli Shlizerman

Sketch recognition allows natural and efficient interaction in pen-based interfaces. A key obstacle to building accurate sketch recognizers has been the difficulty of creating large amounts of annotated training data. Several authors have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Erelcan Yanik , Tevfik Metin Sezgin

Deep learning-based diagnostic models often suffer performance drops due to distribution shifts between training (source) and test (target) domains. Collecting and labeling sufficient target domain data for model retraining represents an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Yaofei Duan , Yuhao Huang , Xin Yang , Luyi Han , Xinyu Xie , Zhiyuan Zhu , Ping He , Ka-Hou Chan , Ligang Cui , Sio-Kei Im , Dong Ni , Tao Tan

The development of existing facial coding systems, such as the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), relied on manual examination of facial expression videos for defining Action Units (AUs). To overcome the labor-intensive nature of this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Shivansh Chandra Tripathi , Rahul Garg

Federated learning enables multiple decentralized clients to learn collaboratively without sharing the local training data. However, the expensive annotation cost to acquire data labels on local clients remains an obstacle in utilizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Yu-Tong Cao , Ye Shi , Baosheng Yu , Jingya Wang , Dacheng Tao

Knowledge Distillation (KD) compresses neural networks by learning a small network (student) via transferring knowledge from a pre-trained large network (teacher). Many endeavours have been devoted to the image domain, while few works focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ping Li , Chenhao Ping , Wenxiao Wang , Mingli Song

Active learning is a paradigm aimed at reducing the annotation effort by training the model on actively selected informative and/or representative samples. Another paradigm to reduce the annotation effort is self-training that learns from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Javad Zolfaghari Bengar , Joost van de Weijer , Bartlomiej Twardowski , Bogdan Raducanu

Semi-supervised Camouflaged Object Detection (SSCOD) aims to reduce reliance on costly pixel-level annotations by leveraging limited annotated data and abundant unlabeled data. However, existing SSCOD methods based on Teacher-Student…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Xihang Hu , Fuming Sun , Jiazhe Liu , Feilong Xu , Xiaoli Zhang

Spatio-temporal action detection in videos is typically addressed in a fully-supervised setup with manual annotation of training videos required at every frame. Since such annotation is extremely tedious and prohibits scalability, there is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Guilhem Chéron , Jean-Baptiste Alayrac , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

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