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Active Learning (AL) has emerged as a powerful approach for minimizing labeling costs by selectively sampling the most informative data for neural network model development. Effective AL for large-scale vision-language models necessitates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Athmanarayanan Lakshmi Narayanan , Amrutha Machireddy , Ranganath Krishnan

Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) aims to classify and locate objects with only image-level supervision. Many WSOD approaches adopt multiple instance learning as the initial model, which is prone to converge to the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Wenlong Gao , Ying Chen , Yong Peng

How can models effectively detect out-of-distribution (OOD) samples in complex, multi-label settings without extensive retraining? Existing OOD detection methods struggle to capture the intricate semantic relationships and label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zhendong Liu , Yi Nian , Yuehan Qin , Henry Peng Zou , Li Li , Xiyang Hu , Yue Zhao

Weakly-Supervised Concealed Object Segmentation (WSCOS) aims to segment objects well blended with surrounding environments using sparsely-annotated data for model training. It remains a challenging task since (1) it is hard to distinguish…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Chunming He , Kai Li , Yachao Zhang , Guoxia Xu , Longxiang Tang , Yulun Zhang , Zhenhua Guo , Xiu Li

Semi-supervised object detection (SSOD) based on pseudo-labeling significantly reduces dependence on large labeled datasets by effectively leveraging both labeled and unlabeled data. However, real-world applications of SSOD often face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Moussa Kassem Sbeyti , Nadja Klein , Azarm Nowzad , Fikret Sivrikaya , Sahin Albayrak

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) can play a key role in spotting unusual activities in video footage. VAD is difficult to use in real-world settings due to the dynamic nature of human actions, environmental variations, and domain shifts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Shanle Yao , Ghazal Alinezhad Noghre , Armin Danesh Pazho , Hamed Tabkhi

Fully supervised object detection has achieved great success in recent years. However, abundant bounding boxes annotations are needed for training a detector for novel classes. To reduce the human labeling effort, we propose a novel webly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Zhonghua Wu , Qingyi Tao , Guosheng Lin , Jianfei Cai

One of the most important factors in training object recognition networks using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is the provision of annotated data accompanying human judgment. Particularly, in object detection or semantic segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Min-Kook Choi , Jaehyeong Park , Jihun Jung , Heechul Jung , Jin-Hee Lee , Woong Jae Won , Woo Young Jung , Jincheol Kim , Soon Kwon

Which volume to annotate next is a challenging problem in building medical imaging datasets for deep learning. One of the promising methods to approach this question is active learning (AL). However, AL has been a hard nut to crack in terms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Vishwesh Nath , Dong Yang , Holger R. Roth , Daguang Xu

The Unified Object Detection (UOD) task aims to achieve object detection of all merged categories through training on multiple datasets, and is of great significance in comprehensive object detection scenarios. In this paper, we conduct a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 XiaoJun Tang , Jingru Wang , Zeyu Shangguan , Darun Tang , Yuyu Liu

In this paper, we address the problem of weakly supervised object localization (WSL), which trains a detection network on the dataset with only image-level annotations. The proposed approach is built on the observation that the proposal set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Wenju Xu , Yuanwei Wu , Wenchi Ma , Guanghui Wang

Pathology image classification plays a crucial role in accurate medical diagnosis and treatment planning. Training high-performance models for this task typically requires large-scale annotated datasets, which are both expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Lanfeng Zhong , Xin Liao , Shichuan Zhang , Shaoting Zhang , Guotai Wang

With the human pursuit of knowledge, open-set object detection (OSOD) has been designed to identify unknown objects in a dynamic world. However, an issue with the current setting is that all the predicted unknown objects share the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Jiyang Zheng , Weihao Li , Jie Hong , Lars Petersson , Nick Barnes

Object detection under imperfect data receives great attention recently. Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) suffers from severe localization issues due to the lack of instance-level annotation, while semi-supervised object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Hanjun Li , Xingjia Pan , Ke Yan , Fan Tang , Wei-Shi Zheng

Traditional object detection methods operate under the closed-set assumption, where models can only detect a fixed number of objects predefined in the training set. Recent works on open vocabulary object detection (OVD) enable the detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zizhao Li , Zhengkang Xiang , Joseph West , Kourosh Khoshelham

Reliance on vast annotations to achieve leading performance severely restricts the practicality of large-scale point cloud semantic segmentation. For the purpose of reducing data annotation costs, effective labeling schemes are developed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Puzuo Wang , Wei Yao , Jie Shao

Stream-based active learning (AL) is an efficient training data collection method, and it is used to reduce human annotation cost required in machine learning. However, it is difficult to say that the human cost is low enough because most…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Kanata Suzuki , Taro Sunagawa , Tomotake Sasaki , Takashi Katoh

Attribute labeling at large scale is typically incomplete and partial, posing significant challenges to model optimization. Existing attribute learning methods often treat the missing labels as negative or simply ignore them all during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Kongming Liang , Xinran Wang , Rui Wang , Donghui Gao , Ling Jin , Weidong Liu , Xiatian Zhu , Zhanyu Ma , Jun Guo

Recent work indicates that, besides being a challenge in producing perceptually pleasing images, low light proves more difficult for machine cognition than previously thought. In our work, we take a closer look at object detection in low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Igor Morawski , Yu-An Chen , Yu-Sheng Lin , Winston H. Hsu

The unsupervised pretraining of object detectors has recently become a key component of object detector training, as it leads to improved performance and faster convergence during the supervised fine-tuning stage. Existing unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Ioannis Maniadis Metaxas , Adrian Bulat , Ioannis Patras , Brais Martinez , Georgios Tzimiropoulos