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Dense regression is a widely used approach in computer vision for tasks such as image super-resolution, enhancement, depth estimation, etc. However, the high cost of annotation and labeling makes it challenging to achieve accurate results.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Vikrant Rangnekar , Uddeshya Upadhyay , Zeynep Akata , Biplab Banerjee

Active learning (AL) aims to enable training high performance classifiers with low annotation cost by predicting which subset of unlabelled instances would be most beneficial to label. The importance of AL has motivated extensive research,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Kunkun Pang , Mingzhi Dong , Yang Wu , Timothy Hospedales

The process of annotating histological gigapixel-sized whole slide images (WSIs) at the pixel level for the purpose of training a supervised segmentation model is time-consuming. Region-based active learning (AL) involves training the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Jingna Qiu , Frauke Wilm , Mathias Öttl , Maja Schlereth , Chang Liu , Tobias Heimann , Marc Aubreville , Katharina Breininger

In recent years, the need for semantic segmentation has arisen across several different applications and environments. However, the expense and redundancy of annotation often limits the quantity of labels available for training in any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Tarun Kalluri , Girish Varma , Manmohan Chandraker , C V Jawahar

Standard segmentation of medical images based on full-supervised convolutional networks demands accurate dense annotations. Such learning framework is built on laborious manual annotation with restrict demands for expertise, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Liyan Sun , Jianxiong Wu , Xinghao Ding , Yue Huang , Guisheng Wang , Yizhou Yu

Large-scale data is of crucial importance for learning semantic segmentation models, but annotating per-pixel masks is a tedious and inefficient procedure. We note that for the topic of interactive image segmentation, scribbles are very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Di Lin , Jifeng Dai , Jiaya Jia , Kaiming He , Jian Sun

Active learning improves annotation efficiency by selecting the most informative samples for annotation and model training. While most prior work has focused on selecting informative images for classification tasks, we investigate the more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jingna Qiu , Frauke Wilm , Mathias Öttl , Jonas Utz , Maja Schlereth , Moritz Schillinger , Marc Aubreville , Katharina Breininger

This work presents a novel approach for semi-supervised semantic segmentation. The key element of this approach is our contrastive learning module that enforces the segmentation network to yield similar pixel-level feature representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Inigo Alonso , Alberto Sabater , David Ferstl , Luis Montesano , Ana C. Murillo

While image segmentation is crucial in various computer vision applications, such as autonomous driving, grasping, and robot navigation, annotating all objects at the pixel-level for training is nearly impossible. Therefore, the study of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Cuong Manh Hoang , Byeongkeun Kang

We propose a new active learning (AL) method for text classification with convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In AL, one selects the instances to be manually labeled with the aim of maximizing model performance with minimal effort. Neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-02 Ye Zhang , Matthew Lease , Byron C. Wallace

Supervised machine learning methods usually require a large set of labeled examples for model training. However, in many real applications, there are plentiful unlabeled data but limited labeled data; and the acquisition of labels is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Ying-Peng Tang , Guo-Xiang Li , Sheng-Jun Huang

Image segmentation is a fundamental problem in biomedical image analysis. Recent advances in deep learning have achieved promising results on many biomedical image segmentation benchmarks. However, due to large variations in biomedical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Lin Yang , Yizhe Zhang , Jianxu Chen , Siyuan Zhang , Danny Z. Chen

Active learning, a label-efficient paradigm, empowers models to interactively query an oracle for labeling new data. In the realm of LiDAR semantic segmentation, the challenges stem from the sheer volume of point clouds, rendering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Binhui Xie , Shuang Li , Qingju Guo , Chi Harold Liu , Xinjing Cheng

Autonomous robotic systems applied to new domains require an abundance of expensive, pixel-level dense labels to train robust semantic segmentation models under full supervision. This study proposes a model-agnostic Depth Edge Alignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Patrick Schmidt , Vasileios Belagiannis , Lazaros Nalpantidis

We propose an approach to discover class-specific pixels for the weakly-supervised semantic segmentation task. We show that properly combining saliency and attention maps allows us to obtain reliable cues capable of significantly boosting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Arslan Chaudhry , Puneet K. Dokania , Philip H. S. Torr

Deep learning has achieved impressive results in nuclei segmentation, but the massive requirement for pixel-wise labels remains a significant challenge. To alleviate the annotation burden, existing methods generate pseudo masks for model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Ziyue Wang , Ye Zhang , Yifeng Wang , Linghan Cai , Yongbing Zhang

Efficient data annotation remains a critical challenge in machine learning, particularly for object detection tasks requiring extensive labeled data. Active learning (AL) has emerged as a promising solution to minimize annotation costs by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Somraj Gautam , Nachiketa Purohit , Gaurav Harit

Labeled data can be expensive to acquire in several application domains, including medical imaging, robotics, and computer vision. To efficiently train machine learning models under such high labeling costs, active learning (AL) judiciously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Konstantinos D. Polyzos , Qin Lu , Georgios B. Giannakis

While deep learning is a powerful tool for natural language processing (NLP) problems, successful solutions to these problems rely heavily on large amounts of annotated samples. However, manually annotating data is expensive and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Rishi Hazra , Parag Dutta , Shubham Gupta , Mohammed Abdul Qaathir , Ambedkar Dukkipati

Active learning (AL) seeks to reduce annotation costs by selecting the most informative samples for labeling, making it particularly valuable in resource-constrained settings. However, traditional evaluation methods, which focus solely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Julia Machnio , Mads Nielsen , Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi