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Though quite challenging, leveraging large-scale unlabeled or partially labeled data in learning systems (e.g., model/classifier training) has attracted increasing attentions due to its fundamental importance. To address this problem, many…

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State of the art methods for semantic image segmentation are trained in a supervised fashion using a large corpus of fully labeled training images. However, gathering such a corpus is expensive, due to human annotation effort, in contrast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Radek Mackowiak , Philip Lenz , Omair Ghori , Ferran Diego , Oliver Lange , Carsten Rother

Active learning aims to reduce labeling costs by selecting only the most informative samples on a dataset. Few existing works have addressed active learning for object detection. Most of these methods are based on multiple models or are…

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Document images often have intricate layout structures, with numerous content regions (e.g. texts, figures, tables) densely arranged on each page. This makes the manual annotation of layout datasets expensive and inefficient. These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Zejiang Shen , Jian Zhao , Melissa Dell , Yaoliang Yu , Weining Li

Recognizing multiple labels of images is a fundamental but challenging task in computer vision, and remarkable progress has been attained by localizing semantic-aware image regions and predicting their labels with deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Tianshui Chen , Zhouxia Wang , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin

Although active learning (AL) in segmentation tasks enables experts to annotate selected regions of interest (ROIs) instead of entire images, it remains highly challenging, labor-intensive, and cognitively demanding due to the blurry and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Md Shazid Islam , Shreyangshu Bera , Sudipta Paul , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

Deep learning models have been successfully used in medical image analysis problems but they require a large amount of labeled images to obtain good performance.Deep learning models have been successfully used in medical image analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Asim Smailagic , Hae Young Noh , Pedro Costa , Devesh Walawalkar , Kartik Khandelwal , Mostafa Mirshekari , Jonathon Fagert , Adrián Galdrán , Susu Xu

FIRAL is a recently proposed deterministic active learning algorithm for multiclass classification using logistic regression. It was shown to outperform the state-of-the-art in terms of accuracy and robustness and comes with theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Youguang Chen , Zheyu Wen , George Biros

Active learning (AL) is a prominent technique for reducing the annotation effort required for training machine learning models. Deep learning offers a solution for several essential obstacles to deploying AL in practice but introduces many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Akim Tsvigun , Artem Shelmanov , Gleb Kuzmin , Leonid Sanochkin , Daniil Larionov , Gleb Gusev , Manvel Avetisian , Leonid Zhukov

Semantic segmentation is a complex task that relies heavily on large amounts of annotated image data. However, annotating such data can be time-consuming and resource-intensive, especially in the medical domain. Active Learning (AL) is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Fei Wu , Pablo Marquez-Neila , Mingyi Zheng , Hedyeh Rafii-Tari , Raphael Sznitman

Change Point Detection (CPD) is a critical task in time series analysis, aiming to identify moments when the underlying data-generating process shifts. Traditional CPD methods often rely on unsupervised techniques, which lack adaptability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Stefano Bertolasi , Diego Carrera , Diego Stucchi , Pasqualina Fragneto , Luigi Amedeo Bianchi

Active learning (AL) aims to improve model performance within a fixed labeling budget by choosing the most informative data points to label. Existing AL focuses on the single-domain setting, where all data come from the same domain (e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Guang-Yuan Hao , Hengguan Huang , Haotian Wang , Jie Gao , Hao Wang

Recent aerial object detection models rely on a large amount of labeled training data, which requires unaffordable manual labeling costs in large aerial scenes with dense objects. Active learning effectively reduces the data labeling cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Dong Liang , Jing-Wei Zhang , Ying-Peng Tang , Sheng-Jun Huang

3D object detection has recently received much attention due to its great potential in autonomous vehicle (AV). The success of deep learning based object detectors relies on the availability of large-scale annotated datasets, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jinpeng Lin , Zhihao Liang , Shengheng Deng , Lile Cai , Tao Jiang , Tianrui Li , Kui Jia , Xun Xu

Training deep object detectors demands expensive bounding box annotation. Active learning (AL) is a promising technique to alleviate the annotation burden. Performing AL at box-level for object detection, i.e., selecting the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Jingyi Liao , Xun Xu , Chuan-Sheng Foo , Lile Cai

Subtle visual anomalies such as hairline cracks, sub-millimeter voids, and low-contrast inclusions are structurally atypical yet visually ambiguous, making them both difficult to annotate and easy to overlook during active learning.…

Active Learning (AL) for semantic segmentation is challenging due to heavy class imbalance and different ways of defining "sample" (pixels, areas, etc.), leaving the interpretation of the data distribution ambiguous. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Amirsaeed Yazdani , Xuelu Li , Vishal Monga

Active learning is considered a viable solution to alleviate the contradiction between the high dependency of deep learning-based segmentation methods on annotated data and the expensive pixel-level annotation cost of medical images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jun Shi , Shulan Ruan , Ziqi Zhu , Minfan Zhao , Hong An , Xudong Xue , Bing Yan

Recent successes in learning-based image classification, however, heavily rely on the large number of annotated training samples, which may require considerable human efforts. In this paper, we propose a novel active learning framework,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-16 Keze Wang , Dongyu Zhang , Ya Li , Ruimao Zhang , Liang Lin

The cost of drawing object bounding boxes (i.e. labeling) for millions of images is prohibitively high. For instance, labeling pedestrians in a regular urban image could take 35 seconds on average. Active learning aims to reduce the cost of…

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