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Traditional crowd counting approaches usually use Gaussian assumption to generate pseudo density ground truth, which suffers from problems like inaccurate estimation of the Gaussian kernel sizes. In this paper, we propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Hui Lin , Xiaopeng Hong , Zhiheng Ma , Xing Wei , Yunfeng Qiu , Yaowei Wang , Yihong Gong

Using deep learning, we now have the ability to create exceptionally good semantic segmentation systems; however, collecting the prerequisite pixel-wise annotations for training images remains expensive and time-consuming. Therefore, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Aneesh Rangnekar , Christopher Kanan , Matthew Hoffman

In order to enhance the performance of image recognition, a sparsity augmented probabilistic collaborative representation based classification (SA-ProCRC) method is presented. The proposed method obtains the dense coefficient through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Xiao-Yun Cai , He-Feng Yin

Crowd-sourcing is an increasingly popular tool for image analysis in animal ecology. Computer vision methods that can utilize crowd-sourced annotations can help scale up analysis further. In this work we study the potential to do so on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Justin Kay , Catherine M. Foley , Tom Hart

Foundational models such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) are gaining traction in medical imaging segmentation, supporting multiple downstream tasks. However, such models are supervised in nature, still relying on large annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Aishik Konwer , Zhijian Yang , Erhan Bas , Cao Xiao , Prateek Prasanna , Parminder Bhatia , Taha Kass-Hout

Human-annotated data plays a critical role in the fairness of AI systems, including those that deal with life-altering decisions or moderating human-created web/social media content. Conventionally, annotator disagreements are resolved…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya , Sarah Luger , Saloni Poddar , Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh , Christopher M. Homan

Modern, state-of-the-art deep learning approaches yield human like performance in numerous object detection and classification tasks. The foundation for their success is the availability of training datasets of substantially high quantity,…

Aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences becomes a key component to obtaining state-of-the-art performance, but it yields a huge cost to construct a large human-annotated preference dataset. To tackle this problem, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Dongyoung Kim , Kimin Lee , Jinwoo Shin , Jaehyung Kim

Increasing the annotation efficiency of trajectory annotations from videos has the potential to enable the next generation of data-hungry tracking algorithms to thrive on large-scale datasets. Despite the importance of this task, there are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Orcun Cetintas , Tim Meinhardt , Guillem Brasó , Laura Leal-Taixé

Neural networks can be significantly compressed by pruning, yielding sparse models with reduced storage and computational demands while preserving predictive performance. Model soups (Wortsman et al., 2022) enhance generalization and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Max Zimmer , Christoph Spiegel , Sebastian Pokutta

Selective clustering annotated using modes of projections (SCAMP) is a new clustering algorithm for data in $\mathbb{R}^p$. SCAMP is motivated from the point of view of non-parametric mixture modeling. Rather than maximizing a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-30 Evan Greene , Greg Finak , Raphael Gottardo

Recent advances in data-centric artificial intelligence highlight inherent limitations in object recognition datasets. One of the primary issues stems from the semantic gap problem, which results in complex many-to-many mappings between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Xiaolei Diao , Fausto Giunchiglia

The problem of "approximating the crowd" is that of estimating the crowd's majority opinion by querying only a subset of it. Algorithms that approximate the crowd can intelligently stretch a limited budget for a crowdsourcing task. We…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-04-17 Seyda Ertekin , Haym Hirsh , Cynthia Rudin

One of the primary catalysts fueling advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is the availability of massive, curated datasets. A commonly used technique to curate such massive datasets is crowdsourcing, where data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-04 Shahana Ibrahim , Panagiotis A. Traganitis , Xiao Fu , Georgios B. Giannakis

Accurate segmentation of organelle instances from electron microscopy (EM) images plays an essential role in many neuroscience researches. However, practical scenarios usually suffer from high annotation costs, label scarcity, and large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Dafei Qiu , Shan Xiong , Jiajin Yi , Jialin Peng

Semi-supervised crowd counting is an important yet challenging task. A popular approach is to iteratively generate pseudo-labels for unlabeled data and add them to the training set. The key is to use uncertainty to select reliable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Chen Li , Xiaoling Hu , Shahira Abousamra , Chao Chen

Labeling real-world datasets is time consuming but indispensable for supervised machine learning models. A common solution is to distribute the labeling task across a large number of non-expert workers via crowd-sourcing. Due to the varying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Taraneh Younesian , Chi Hong , Amirmasoud Ghiassi , Robert Birke , Lydia Y. Chen

Semantic human matting aims to estimate the per-pixel opacity of the foreground human regions. It is quite challenging and usually requires user interactive trimaps and plenty of high quality annotated data. Annotating such kind of data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Jinlin Liu , Yuan Yao , Wendi Hou , Miaomiao Cui , Xuansong Xie , Changshui Zhang , Xian-sheng Hua

Classification predicts classes of objects using the knowledge learned during the training phase. This process requires learning from labeled samples. However, the labeled samples usually limited. Annotation process is annoying, tedious,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Shahira Shaaban Azab , Mohamed Farouk Abdel Hady , Hesham Ahmed Hefny

Distant supervision is a popular method for performing relation extraction from text that is known to produce noisy labels. Most progress in relation extraction and classification has been made with crowdsourced corrections to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Anca Dumitrache , Lora Aroyo , Chris Welty