English
Related papers

Related papers: Automated wildlife image classification: An active…

200 papers

In supervised learning, acquiring labeled training data for a predictive model can be very costly, but acquiring a large amount of unlabeled data is often quite easy. Active learning is a method of obtaining predictive models with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Hideitsu Hino

The rapid decline in global biodiversity demands innovative conservation strategies. This paper examines the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in wildlife conservation, focusing on the Conservation AI platform. Leveraging machine learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Paul Fergus , Carl Chalmers , Steve Longmore , Serge Wich

Deep learning methodologies have been employed in several different fields, with an outstanding success in image recognition applications, such as material quality control, medical imaging, autonomous driving, etc. Deep learning models rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Saul Calderon-Ramirez , Shengxiang Yang , David Elizondo

In this letter, we introduce deep active learning (AL) for multi-label classification (MLC) problems in remote sensing (RS). In particular, we investigate the effectiveness of several AL query functions for MLC of RS images. Unlike the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Lars Möllenbrok , Gencer Sumbul , Begüm Demir

Wildlife monitoring is crucial for studying biodiversity loss and climate change. Camera trap images provide a non-intrusive method for analyzing animal populations and identifying ecological patterns over time. However, manual analysis is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Julian D. Santamaria , Claudia Isaza , Jhony H. Giraldo

High accuracy medical image classification can be limited by the costs of acquiring more data as well as the time and expertise needed to label existing images. In this paper, we apply active learning to medical image classification, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Emma Slade , Kim M. Branson

Camera traps are crucial in biodiversity motivated studies, however dealing with large number of images while annotating these data sets is a tedious and time consuming task. To speed up this process, Machine Learning approaches are a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Miroslav Valan , Lukáš Picek

Camera traps have long been used by wildlife researchers to monitor and study animal behavior, population dynamics, habitat use, and species diversity in a non-invasive and efficient manner. While data collection from the field has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Bernie Boscoe , Shawn Johnson , Andrea Osbon , Chandler Campbell , Karen Mager

Supervised machine learning often requires large training sets to train accurate models, yet obtaining large amounts of labeled data is not always feasible. Hence, it becomes crucial to explore active learning methods for reducing the size…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Ashna Jose , Emilie Devijver , Massih-Reza Amini , Noel Jakse , Roberta Poloni

Supervised machine learning based state-of-the-art computer vision techniques are in general data hungry and pose the challenges of not having adequate computing resources and of high costs involved in human labeling efforts. Training data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Vishal Kaushal , Anurag Sahoo , Khoshrav Doctor , Narasimha Raju , Suyash Shetty , Pankaj Singh , Rishabh Iyer , Ganesh Ramakrishnan

We propose techniques to incorporate coarse taxonomic labels to train image classifiers in fine-grained domains. Such labels can often be obtained with a smaller effort for fine-grained domains such as the natural world where categories are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Jong-Chyi Su , Subhransu Maji

The goal of pool-based active learning is to judiciously select a fixed-sized subset of unlabeled samples from a pool to query an oracle for their labels, in order to maximize the accuracy of a supervised learner. However, the unsaid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Shubhang Bhatnagar , Sachin Goyal , Darshan Tank , Amit Sethi

Training a quantum machine learning model generally requires a large labeled dataset, which incurs high labeling and computational costs. To reduce such costs, a selective training strategy, called active learning (AL), chooses only a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-04 Chen Ding , Xiao-Yue Xu , Yun-Fei Niu , Shuo Zhang , Wan-Su Bao , He-Liang Huang

Wildlife re-identification aims to recognise individual animals by matching query images to a database of previously identified individuals, based on their fine-scale unique morphological characteristics. Current state-of-the-art models for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Thanos Polychronou , Lukáš Adam , Viktor Penchev , Kostas Papafitsoros

Active learning is of great interest for many practical applications, especially in industry and the physical sciences, where there is a strong need to minimize the number of costly experiments necessary to train predictive models. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Maryam Pardakhti , Nila Mandal , Anson W. K. Ma , Qian Yang

Active learning (AL) for multiple target models aims to reduce labeled data querying while effectively training multiple models concurrently. Existing AL algorithms often rely on iterative model training, which can be computationally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Sheng-Jun Huang , Yi Li , Yiming Sun , Ying-Peng Tang

Pretrained on web-scale open data, VLMs offer powerful capabilities for solving downstream tasks after being adapted to task-specific labeled data. Yet, data labeling can be expensive and may demand domain expertise. Active Learning (AL)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Tong Wang , Jiaqi Wang , Shu Kong

Active learning (AL) has emerged as a crucial methodology for minimizing labeling costs in deep learning by selecting the most valuable samples from a pool of unlabeled data for annotation. Traditional AL operates under a closed-set…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Zongyao Lyu , William J. Beksi

Labeling data correctly is an expensive and challenging task in machine learning, especially for on-line data streams. Deep learning models especially require a large number of clean labeled data that is very difficult to acquire in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Taraneh Younesian , Dick Epema , Lydia Y. Chen

Deep Neural Networks trained in a fully supervised fashion are the dominant technology in perception-based autonomous driving systems. While collecting large amounts of unlabeled data is already a major undertaking, only a subset of it can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Elmar Haussmann , Michele Fenzi , Kashyap Chitta , Jan Ivanecky , Hanson Xu , Donna Roy , Akshita Mittel , Nicolas Koumchatzky , Clement Farabet , Jose M. Alvarez