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In real-world data labeling applications, annotators often provide imperfect labels. It is thus common to employ multiple annotators to label data with some overlap between their examples. We study active learning in such settings, aiming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Hui Wen Goh , Jonas Mueller

In this paper we consider the problem of classifying fine-grained, multi-step activities (e.g., cooking different recipes, making disparate home improvements, creating various forms of arts and crafts) from long videos spanning up to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Xudong Lin , Fabio Petroni , Gedas Bertasius , Marcus Rohrbach , Shih-Fu Chang , Lorenzo Torresani

Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) have enabled significant progress in open vocabulary computer vision tasks such as image classification, object detection and image segmentation. Some recent works have focused on extending VLMs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Rohit Gupta , Mamshad Nayeem Rizve , Jayakrishnan Unnikrishnan , Ashish Tawari , Son Tran , Mubarak Shah , Benjamin Yao , Trishul Chilimbi

Contemporary knowledge-based systems increasingly rely on multilingual emotion identification to support intelligent decision-making, yet they face major challenges due to emotional ambiguity and incomplete supervision. Emotion recognition…

Video action segmentation under timestamp supervision has recently received much attention due to lower annotation costs. Most existing methods generate pseudo-labels for all frames in each video to train the segmentation model. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Dazhao Du , Enhan Li , Lingyu Si , Fanjiang Xu , Fuchun Sun

Every moment counts in action recognition. A comprehensive understanding of human activity in video requires labeling every frame according to the actions occurring, placing multiple labels densely over a video sequence. To study this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Serena Yeung , Olga Russakovsky , Ning Jin , Mykhaylo Andriluka , Greg Mori , Li Fei-Fei

Recognizing Video events in long, complex videos with multiple sub-activities has received persistent attention recently. This task is more challenging than traditional action recognition with short, relatively homogeneous video clips. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Yikang Li , Tianshu Yu , Baoxin Li

Deep learning has shown remarkable progress in a wide range of problems. However, efficient training of such models requires large-scale datasets, and getting annotations for such datasets can be challenging and costly. In this work, we…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Mohit Sharma , Raj Patra , Harshal Desai , Shruti Vyas , Yogesh Rawat , Rajiv Ratn Shah

Computer-aided diagnosis systems must make critical decisions from medical images that are often noisy, ambiguous, or conflicting, yet today's models are trained on overly simplistic labels that ignore diagnostic uncertainty. One-hot labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Ang Nan Gu , Michael Tsang , Hooman Vaseli , Purang Abolmaesumi , Teresa Tsang

Understanding the simultaneously very diverse and intricately fine-grained set of possible human actions is a critical open problem in computer vision. Manually labeling training videos is feasible for some action classes but doesn't scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Serena Yeung , Vignesh Ramanathan , Olga Russakovsky , Liyue Shen , Greg Mori , Li Fei-Fei

Current fully-supervised video datasets consist of only a few hundred thousand videos and fewer than a thousand domain-specific labels. This hinders the progress towards advanced video architectures. This paper presents an in-depth study of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Deepti Ghadiyaram , Matt Feiszli , Du Tran , Xueting Yan , Heng Wang , Dhruv Mahajan

Several works in computer vision have demonstrated the effectiveness of active learning for adapting the recognition model when new unlabeled data becomes available. Most of these works consider that labels obtained from the annotator are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Sudipta Paul , Shivkumar Chandrasekaran , B. S. Manjunath , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

Label aggregation such as majority voting is commonly used to resolve annotator disagreement in dataset creation. However, this may disregard minority values and opinions. Recent studies indicate that learning from individual annotations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Xinpeng Wang , Barbara Plank

The goal of this paper is to determine the spatio-temporal location of actions in video. Where training from hard to obtain box annotations is the norm, we propose an intuitive and effective algorithm that localizes actions from their class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Pascal Mettes , Cees G. M. Snoek , Shih-Fu Chang

Activity recognition is a challenging problem with many practical applications. In addition to the visual features, recent approaches have benefited from the use of context, e.g., inter-relationships among the activities and objects.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Mahmudul Hasan , Sujoy Paul , Anastasios I. Mourikis , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

We propose a method for human action recognition, one that can localize the spatiotemporal regions that `define' the actions. This is a challenging task due to the subtlety of human actions in video and the co-occurrence of contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Yang Wang , Vinh Tran , Gedas Bertasius , Lorenzo Torresani , Minh Hoai

Multi-label multi-view action recognition aims to recognize multiple concurrent or sequential actions from untrimmed videos captured by multiple cameras. Existing work has focused on multi-view action recognition in a narrow area with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Trung Thanh Nguyen , Yasutomo Kawanishi , Takahiro Komamizu , Ichiro Ide

Evaluating visual activity recognition systems is challenging due to inherent ambiguities in verb semantics and image interpretation. When describing actions in images, synonymous verbs can refer to the same event (e.g., brushing vs.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Louie Hong Yao , Nicholas Jarvis , Tianyu Jiang

Much recent work on visual recognition aims to scale up learning to massive, noisily-annotated datasets. We address the problem of scaling- up the evaluation of such models to large-scale datasets with noisy labels. Current protocols for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Phuc Nguyen , Deva Ramanan , Charless Fowlkes

In this paper we introduce the problem of Visual Semantic Role Labeling: given an image we want to detect people doing actions and localize the objects of interaction. Classical approaches to action recognition either study the task of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Saurabh Gupta , Jitendra Malik