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Training data plays an essential role in modern applications of machine learning. However, gathering labeled training data is time-consuming. Therefore, labeling is often outsourced to less experienced users, or completely automated. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Alex Bäuerle , Heiko Neumann , Timo Ropinski

Localization and navigation are basic robotic tasks requiring an accurate and up-to-date map to finish these tasks, with crowdsourced data to detect map changes posing an appealing solution. Collecting and processing crowdsourced data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Zihan Lin , Jincheng Yu , Lipu Zhou , Xudong Zhang , Jian Wang , Yu Wang

In the past decade, deep neural networks have achieved significant progress in point cloud learning. However, collecting large-scale precisely-annotated training data is extremely laborious and expensive, which hinders the scalability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Aoran Xiao , Xiaoqin Zhang , Ling Shao , Shijian Lu

The problem of estimating subjective visual properties (SVP) of images (e.g., Shoes A is more comfortable than B) is gaining rising attention. Due to its highly subjective nature, different annotators often exhibit different interpretations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Qianqian Xu , Zhiyong Yang , Yangbangyan Jiang , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang , Yuan Yao

In clinical medicine, precise image segmentation can provide substantial support to clinicians. However, obtaining high-quality segmentation typically demands extensive pixel-level annotations, which are labor-intensive and expensive.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Tao Wang , Xinlin Zhang , Zhenxuan Zhang , Yuanbo Zhou , Yuanbin Chen , Longxuan Zhao , Chaohui Xu , Shun Chen , Guang Yang , Tong Tong

Supervised learning, especially supervised deep learning, requires large amounts of labeled data. One approach to collect large amounts of labeled data is by using a crowdsourcing platform where numerous workers perform the annotation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Kosuke Yoshimura , Hisashi Kashima

Representation learning has been proven to play an important role in the unprecedented success of machine learning models in numerous tasks, such as machine translation, face recognition and recommendation. The majority of existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Wentao Wang , Guowei Xu , Wenbiao Ding , Gale Yan Huang , Guoliang Li , Jiliang Tang , Zitao Liu

There is a rapidly increasing interest in crowdsourcing for data labeling. By crowdsourcing, a large number of labels can be often quickly gathered at low cost. However, the labels provided by the crowdsourcing workers are usually not of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-26 Dengyong Zhou , Qiang Liu , John C. Platt , Christopher Meek , Nihar B. Shah

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

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

High-quality labeled data is essential for training robust machine learning models, yet obtaining annotations at scale remains expensive. AI-assisted annotation has therefore become standard in large-scale labeling workflows. However, in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Moussa Kassem Sbeyti , Joshua Holstein , Philipp Spitzer , Nadja Klein , Gerhard Satzger

Accurate people localisation using drones is crucial for effective crowd management, not only during massive events and public gatherings but also for monitoring daily urban crowd flow. Traditional methods for tiny object localisation using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Bartosz Ptak , Marek Kraft

Bounding-box annotation form has been the most frequently used method for visual object localization tasks. However, bounding-box annotation relies on a large amount of precisely annotating bounding boxes, and it is expensive and laborious.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Xuehui Yu , Di Wu , Qixiang Ye , Jianbin Jiao , Zhenjun Han

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

Crowd image is arguably one of the most laborious data to annotate. In this paper, we devote to reduce the massive demand of densely labeled crowd data, and propose a novel weakly-supervised setting, in which we leverage the binary ranking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Zheng Xiong , Liangyu Chai , Wenxi Liu , Yongtuo Liu , Sucheng Ren , Shengfeng He

This manuscript presents a series of my selected contributions to the topic of label-efficient learning in computer vision and remote sensing. The central focus of this research is to develop and adapt methods that can learn effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Minh-Tan Pham

High-quality training data play a key role in image segmentation tasks. Usually, pixel-level annotations are expensive, laborious and time-consuming for the large volume of training data. To reduce labelling cost and improve segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Yuying Hao , Yi Liu , Zewu Wu , Lin Han , Yizhou Chen , Guowei Chen , Lutao Chu , Shiyu Tang , Zhiliang Yu , Zeyu Chen , Baohua Lai

Recent advancements in medical imaging and artificial intelligence (AI) have greatly enhanced diagnostic capabilities, but the development of effective deep learning (DL) models is still constrained by the lack of high-quality annotated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Amir Syahmi , Xiangrong Lu , Yinxuan Li , Haoxuan Yao , Hanjun Jiang , Ishita Acharya , Shiyi Wang , Yang Nan , Xiaodan Xing , Guang Yang

A recurring focus of the deep learning community is towards reducing the labeling effort. Data gathering and annotation using a search engine is a simple alternative to generating a fully human-annotated and human-gathered dataset. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Paul Albert , Diego Ortego , Eric Arazo , Noel O'Connor , Kevin McGuinness

The growing use of supervised machine learning in research and industry has increased the need for labeled datasets. Crowdsourcing has emerged as a popular method to create data labels. However, working on large batches of tasks leads to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Chandramohan Sudar , Michael Froehlich , Florian Alt