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Modern deep learning has achieved great success in various fields. However, it requires the labeling of huge amounts of data, which is expensive and labor-intensive. Active learning (AL), which identifies the most informative samples to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Jae Soon Baik , In Young Yoon , Jun Won Choi

Active Learning (AL) promises to reduce annotation cost by prioritizing informative samples, yet its reliability is undermined when labels are noisy or when the data distribution shifts. In practice, annotators make mistakes, rare…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Atharv Goel , Sharat Agarwal , Saket Anand , Chetan Arora

Active learning aims to alleviate the amount of labor involved in data labeling by automating the selection of unlabeled samples via an acquisition function. For example, variational adversarial active learning (VAAL) leverages an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Zongyao Lyu , William J. Beksi

A human's attention can intuitively adapt to corrupted areas of an image by recalling a similar uncorrupted image they have previously seen. This observation motivates us to improve the attention of adversarial images by considering their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Runqi Wang , Xiaoyue Duan , Baochang Zhang , Song Xue , Wentao Zhu , David Doermann , Guodong Guo

Conventional machine learning systems that operate on natural images assume the presence of attributes within the images that lead to some decision. However, decisions in medical domain are a resultant of attributes within medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Yash-yee Logan , Mohit Prabhushankar , Ghassan AlRegib

Clinical settings are often characterized by abundant unlabelled data and limited labelled data. This is typically driven by the high burden placed on oracles (e.g., physicians) to provide annotations. One way to mitigate this burden is via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Dani Kiyasseh , Tingting Zhu , David A. Clifton

Deep learning approaches achieve state-of-the-art performance for classifying radiology images, but rely on large labelled datasets that require resource-intensive annotation by specialists. Both semi-supervised learning and active learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Shafa Balaram , Cuong M. Nguyen , Ashraf Kassim , Pavitra Krishnaswamy

Object detection (OD), a crucial vision task, remains challenged by the lack of large training datasets with precise object localization labels. In this work, we propose ALWOD, a new framework that addresses this problem by fusing active…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Yuting Wang , Velibor Ilic , Jiatong Li , Branislav Kisacanin , Vladimir Pavlovic

Active learning (AL) has shown promise for being a particularly data-efficient machine learning approach. Yet, its performance depends on the application and it is not clear when AL practitioners can expect computational savings. Here, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Kunal Ghosh , Milica Todorović , Aki Vehtari , Patrick Rinke

Active learning (AL) in open set scenarios presents a novel challenge of identifying the most valuable examples in an unlabeled data pool that comprises data from both known and unknown classes. Traditional methods prioritize selecting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Chen-Chen Zong , Ye-Wen Wang , Kun-Peng Ning , Hai-Bo Ye , Sheng-Jun Huang

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

The great success that deep models have achieved in the past is mainly owed to large amounts of labeled training data. However, the acquisition of labeled data for new tasks aside from existing benchmarks is both challenging and costly.…

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Machine learning classification systems are susceptible to poor performance when trained with incorrect ground truth labels, even when data is well-curated by expert annotators. As machine learning becomes more widespread, it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Zan Chaudhry , Noam H. Rotenberg , Brian Caffo , Craig K. Jones , Haris I. Sair

Automated disease classification of radiology images has been emerging as a promising technique to support clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Unlike generic image classification tasks, a real-world radiology image classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Congbo Ma , Hu Wang , Steven C. H. Hoi

Multi-class semantic segmentation remains a cornerstone challenge in computer vision. Yet, dataset creation remains excessively demanding in time and effort, especially for specialized domains. Active Learning (AL) mitigates this challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Fei Wu , Pablo Marquez-Neila , Hedyeh Rafi-Tarii , Raphael Sznitman

Active learning strategies aim to train high-performance models with minimal labeled data by selecting the most informative instances for labeling. However, existing methods for assessing data informativeness often fail to align directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Zhixuan Liang , Xingyu Zeng , Rui Zhao , Ping Luo

Optimizing deep learning models requires large amounts of annotated images, a process that is both time-intensive and costly. Especially for semantic segmentation models in which every pixel must be annotated. A potential strategy to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Bart M. van Marrewijk , Charbel Dandjinou , Dan Jeric Arcega Rustia , Nicolas Franco Gonzalez , Boubacar Diallo , Jérôme Dias , Paul Melki , Pieter M. Blok

Modern systems that rely on Machine Learning (ML) for predictive modelling, may suffer from the cold-start problem: supervised models work well but, initially, there are no labels, which are costly or slow to obtain. This problem is even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Ricardo Barata , Miguel Leite , Ricardo Pacheco , Marco O. P. Sampaio , João Tiago Ascensão , Pedro Bizarro

We introduce supervised contrastive active learning (SCAL) and propose efficient query strategies in active learning based on the feature similarity (featuresim) and principal component analysis based feature-reconstruction error (fre) to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Ranganath Krishnan , Nilesh Ahuja , Alok Sinha , Mahesh Subedar , Omesh Tickoo , Ravi Iyer