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Crowdsourcing platforms offer a practical solution to the problem of affordably annotating large datasets for training supervised classifiers. Unfortunately, poor worker performance frequently threatens to compromise annotation reliability,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Liyue Zhao , Yu Zhang , Gita Sukthankar

Active learning (AL) attempts to maximize the performance gain of the model by marking the fewest samples. Deep learning (DL) is greedy for data and requires a large amount of data supply to optimize massive parameters, so that the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Pengzhen Ren , Yun Xiao , Xiaojun Chang , Po-Yao Huang , Zhihui Li , Brij B. Gupta , Xiaojiang Chen , Xin Wang

Purpose: Manual annotations for training deep learning (DL) models in auto-segmentation are time-intensive. This study introduces a hybrid representation-enhanced sampling strategy that integrates both density and diversity criteria within…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Ganping Li , Yoshito Otake , Mazen Soufi , Masashi Taniguchi , Masahide Yagi , Noriaki Ichihashi , Keisuke Uemura , Masaki Takao , Nobuhiko Sugano , Yoshinobu Sato

Labeling data can be an expensive task as it is usually performed manually by domain experts. This is cumbersome for deep learning, as it is dependent on large labeled datasets. Active learning (AL) is a paradigm that aims to reduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Pieter Floris Jacobs , Gideon Maillette de Buy Wenniger , Marco Wiering , Lambert Schomaker

Active Learning (AL) is a powerful tool for learning with less labeled data, in particular, for specialized domains, like legal documents, where unlabeled data is abundant, but the annotation requires domain expertise and is thus expensive.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Sepideh Mamooler , Rémi Lebret , Stéphane Massonnet , Karl Aberer

Semantic segmentation of 3D point cloud data often comes with high annotation costs. Active learning automates the process of selecting which data to annotate, reducing the total amount of annotation needed to achieve satisfactory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Johannes Meyer , Jasper Hoffmann , Felix Schulz , Dominik Merkle , Daniel Buescher , Alexander Reiterer , Joschka Boedecker , Wolfram Burgard

The expensive annotation cost is notoriously known as the main constraint for the development of the point cloud semantic segmentation technique. Active learning methods endeavor to reduce such cost by selecting and labeling only a subset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Feifei Shao , Yawei Luo , Ping Liu , Jie Chen , Yi Yang , Yulei Lu , Jun Xiao

Active learning is a learning strategy whereby the machine learning algorithm actively identifies and labels data points to optimize its learning. This strategy is particularly effective in domains where an abundance of unlabeled data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zan-Kai Chong , Hiroyuki Ohsaki , Bryan Ng

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

Learning-based solutions for vision tasks require a large amount of labeled training data to ensure their performance and reliability. In single-task vision-based settings, inconsistency-based active learning has proven to be effective in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Aral Hekimoglu , Philipp Friedrich , Walter Zimmer , Michael Schmidt , Alvaro Marcos-Ramiro , Alois C. Knoll

Most machine learning and data analytics applications, including performance engineering in software systems, require a large number of annotations and labelled data, which might not be available in advance. Acquiring annotations often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Peter Samoaa , Linus Aronsson , Antonio Longa , Philipp Leitner , Morteza Haghir Chehreghani

Annotating the right set of data amongst all available data points is a key challenge in many machine learning applications. Batch active learning is a popular approach to address this, in which batches of unlabeled data points are selected…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-20 Amirata Ghorbani , James Zou , Andre Esteva

Most weed species can adversely impact agricultural productivity by competing for nutrients required by high-value crops. Manual weeding is not practical for large cropping areas. Many studies have been undertaken to develop automatic weed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 A S M Mahmudul Hasan , Ferdous Sohel , Dean Diepeveen , Hamid Laga , Michael G. K. Jones

Uncertainty Sampling is an Active Learning strategy that aims to improve the data efficiency of machine learning models by iteratively acquiring labels of data points with the highest uncertainty. While it has proven effective for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Dominik Fuchsgruber , Tom Wollschläger , Bertrand Charpentier , Antonio Oroz , Stephan Günnemann

Active learning (AL) optimizes data labeling efficiency by selecting the most informative instances for annotation. A key component in this procedure is an acquisition function that guides the selection process and identifies the suitable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Abdul Hameed Azeemi , Ihsan Ayyub Qazi , Agha Ali Raza

Nowadays, a huge number of images are available. However, retrieving a required image for an ordinary user is a challenging task in computer vision systems. During the past two decades, many types of research have been introduced to improve…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Amir Vatani , Milad Taleby Ahvanooey , Mostafa Rahimi

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

A principle bottleneck in image classification is the large number of training examples needed to train a classifier. Using active learning, we can reduce the number of training examples to teach a CNN classifier by strategically selecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Thien Nhan Vo

Active learning aims to develop label-efficient algorithms by querying the most informative samples to be labeled by an oracle. The design of efficient training methods that require fewer labels is an important research direction that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Ali Mottaghi , Serena Yeung

Deep learning-based diagnostic models often suffer performance drops due to distribution shifts between training (source) and test (target) domains. Collecting and labeling sufficient target domain data for model retraining represents an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Yaofei Duan , Yuhao Huang , Xin Yang , Luyi Han , Xinyu Xie , Zhiyuan Zhu , Ping He , Ka-Hou Chan , Ligang Cui , Sio-Kei Im , Dong Ni , Tao Tan