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The performance of existing point cloud-based 3D object detection methods heavily relies on large-scale high-quality 3D annotations. However, such annotations are often tedious and expensive to collect. Semi-supervised learning is a good…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Na Zhao , Tat-Seng Chua , Gim Hee Lee

Active learning is particularly of interest for semantic segmentation, where annotations are costly. Previous academic studies focused on datasets that are already very diverse and where the model is trained in a supervised manner with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Sudhanshu Mittal , Joshua Niemeijer , Jörg P. Schäfer , Thomas Brox

Pixel and superpixel classifiers have become essential tools for EM segmentation algorithms. Training these classifiers remains a major bottleneck primarily due to the requirement of completely annotating the dataset which is tedious,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-17 Toufiq Parag , Stephen Plaza , Louis Scheffer

Active learning generally involves querying the most representative samples for human labeling, which has been widely studied in many fields such as image classification and object detection. However, its potential has not been explored in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Jun Wang , Shaoguo Wen , Kaixing Chen , Jianghua Yu , Xin Zhou , Peng Gao , Changsheng Li , Guotong Xie

In recent years, the rapid development of deep learning has brought great advancements to image and video segmentation methods based on neural networks. However, to unleash the full potential of such models, large numbers of high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Yuying Hao , Yi Liu , Yizhou Chen , Lin Han , Juncai Peng , Shiyu Tang , Guowei Chen , Zewu Wu , Zeyu Chen , Baohua Lai

Since the preparation of labeled data for training semantic segmentation networks of point clouds is a time-consuming process, weakly supervised approaches have been introduced to learn from only a small fraction of data. These methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Gengxin Liu , Oliver van Kaick , Hui Huang , Ruizhen Hu

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated exceptional performance across various image segmentation tasks. However, the process of preparing datasets for training segmentation DNNs is both labor-intensive and costly, as it typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Yixin Zhang , Shen Zhao , Hanxue Gu , Maciej A. Mazurowski

Behavioral patterns captured in embeddings learned from interaction data are pivotal across various stages of production recommender systems. However, in the initial retrieval stage, practitioners face an inherent tradeoff between embedding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Vojtěch Vančura , Martin Spišák , Rodrigo Alves , Ladislav Peška

Segmentation of anatomical structures is a fundamental image analysis task for many applications in the medical field. Deep learning methods have been shown to perform well, but for this purpose large numbers of manual annotations are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Firat Ozdemir , Zixuan Peng , Philipp Fuernstahl , Christine Tanner , Orcun Goksel

Semantic segmentation is the task of classifying each pixel in an image. Training a segmentation model achieves best results using annotated images, where each pixel is annotated with the corresponding class. When obtaining fine annotations…

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Document images often have intricate layout structures, with numerous content regions (e.g. texts, figures, tables) densely arranged on each page. This makes the manual annotation of layout datasets expensive and inefficient. These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Zejiang Shen , Jian Zhao , Melissa Dell , Yaoliang Yu , Weining Li

A central challenge for the task of semantic segmentation is the prohibitive cost of obtaining dense pixel-level annotations to supervise model training. In this work, we show that in order to achieve a good level of segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Gyungin Shin , Weidi Xie , Samuel Albanie

Pixel-level annotation demands expensive human efforts and limits the performance of deep networks that usually benefits from more such training data. In this work we aim to achieve high quality instance and semantic segmentation results…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Chuang Niu , Shenghan Ren , Jimin Liang

Incremental learning of semantic segmentation has emerged as a promising strategy for visual scene interpretation in the open- world setting. However, it remains challenging to acquire novel classes in an online fashion for the segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Shipeng Yan , Jiale Zhou , Jiangwei Xie , Songyang Zhang , Xuming He

Cell image segmentation is usually implemented using fully supervised deep learning methods, which heavily rely on extensive annotated training data. Yet, due to the complexity of cell morphology and the requirement for specialized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Yu Zhu , Qiang Yang , Li Xu

Retrieving accurate semantic information in challenging high dynamic range (HDR) and high-speed conditions remains an open challenge for image-based algorithms due to severe image degradations. Event cameras promise to address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Zhaoning Sun , Nico Messikommer , Daniel Gehrig , Davide Scaramuzza

Test-time adaptation (TTA) adapts the pre-trained models during inference using unlabeled test data and has received a lot of research attention due to its potential practical value. Unfortunately, without any label supervision, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Longhui Yuan , Shuang Li , Zhuo He , Binhui Xie

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

We propose ViewAL, a novel active learning strategy for semantic segmentation that exploits viewpoint consistency in multi-view datasets. Our core idea is that inconsistencies in model predictions across viewpoints provide a very reliable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Yawar Siddiqui , Julien Valentin , Matthias Nießner