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Unsupervised word segmentation in audio utterances is challenging as, in speech, there is typically no gap between words. In a preliminary experiment, we show that recent deep self-supervised features are very effective for word…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Tzeviya Sylvia Fuchs , Yedid Hoshen

Recent works in Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) show that training control policies on language-supervised robot trajectories with quality labeled data markedly improves agent task success rates. However, the scarcity of such data presents…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Jonathan Salfity , Selma Wanna , Minkyu Choi , Mitch Pryor

In temporal action localization methods, temporal downsampling operations are widely used to extract proposal features, but they often lead to the aliasing problem, due to lacking consideration of sampling rates. This paper aims to verify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Cece Jin , Yuanqi Chen , Ge Li , Tao Zhang , Thomas Li

Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection (WSVAD) has achieved notable advancements, yet existing models remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks, limiting their reliability. Due to the inherent constraints of weak supervision, where only…

Real-world data often exhibit long-tailed distributions with numerous noisy labels, substantially degrading the performance of deep models. While prior research has made progress in addressing this combined challenge, it overlooks the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Mengke Li , Haiquan Ling , Yiqun Zhang , Yang Lu , Hui Huang

Temporal action localization (TAL), which involves recognizing and locating action instances, is a challenging task in video understanding. Most existing approaches directly predict action classes and regress offsets to boundaries, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Jiayi Shao , Xiaohan Wang , Ruijie Quan , Junjun Zheng , Jiang Yang , Yi Yang

Weakly supervised temporal action localization (WS-TAL) is a task of targeting at localizing complete action instances and categorizing them with video-level labels. Action-background ambiguity, primarily caused by background noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Yuanpeng He , Lijian Li , Tianxiang Zhan , Wenpin Jiao , Chi-Man Pun

Recently, One-stage Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels has gained increasing interest due to simplification over its cumbersome multi-stage counterpart. Limited by the inherent ambiguity of Class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yuanchen Wu , Xichen Ye , Kequan Yang , Jide Li , Xiaoqiang Li

Weakly supervised violence detection refers to the technique of training models to identify violent segments in videos using only video-level labels. Among these approaches, multimodal violence detection, which integrates modalities such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Wenping Jin , Li Zhu , Jing Sun

Recent progress in speech recognition has relied on models trained on vast amounts of labeled data. However, classroom Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) faces the real-world challenge of abundant weak transcripts paired with only a small…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Ahmed Adel Attia , Dorottya Demszky , Jing Liu , Carol Espy-Wilson

Creating large, good quality labeled data has become one of the major bottlenecks for developing machine learning applications. Multiple techniques have been developed to either decrease the dependence of labeled data (zero/few-shot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Abhinav Bohra , Huy Nguyen , Devashish Khatwani

Self-supervised learning presents a remarkable performance to utilize unlabeled data for various video tasks. In this paper, we focus on applying the power of self-supervised methods to improve semi-supervised action proposal generation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Xiang Wang , Shiwei Zhang , Zhiwu Qing , Yuanjie Shao , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang

Recent domain adaptation methods have demonstrated impressive improvement on unsupervised domain adaptation problems. However, in the semi-supervised domain adaptation (SSDA) setting where the target domain has a few labeled instances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Bingyu Liu , Yuhong Guo , Jieping Ye , Weihong Deng

Semantic segmentation is an important and prevalent task, but severely suffers from the high cost of pixel-level annotations when extending to more classes in wider applications. To this end, we focus on the problem named weak-shot semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Junjie Chen , Li Niu , Siyuan Zhou , Jianlou Si , Chen Qian , Liqing Zhang

The object of Weakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization (WS-TAL) is to localize all action instances in an untrimmed video with only video-level supervision. Due to the lack of frame-level annotations during training, current WS-TAL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Ziyi Liu , Le Wang , Qilin Zhang , Wei Tang , Junsong Yuan , Nanning Zheng , Gang Hua

Pseudo-labelling is a popular technique in unsuper-vised domain adaptation for semantic segmentation. However, pseudo labels are noisy and inevitably have confirmation bias due to the discrepancy between source and target domains and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Wanyu Xu , Zengmao Wang , Wei Bian

In Multiple Instance learning (MIL), weak labels are provided at the bag level with only presence/absence information known. However, there is a considerable gap in performance in comparison to a fully supervised model, limiting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Anxiang Zhang , Ankit Shah , Bhiksha Raj

In practical machine learning applications, it is often challenging to assign accurate labels to data, and increasing the number of labeled instances is often limited. In such cases, Weakly Supervised Learning (WSL), which enables training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Tomoya Tate , Kosuke Sugiyama , Masato Uchida

Human activity recognition (HAR) using wearable sensors has advanced through various machine learning paradigms, each with inherent trade-offs between performance and labeling requirements. While fully supervised techniques achieve high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Taoran Sheng , Manfred Huber

Weakly Supervised Sound Event Detection (WSSED), which relies on audio tags without precise onset and offset times, has become prevalent due to the scarcity of strongly labeled data that includes exact temporal boundaries for events. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Yuliang Zhang , Defeng , Huang , Roberto Togneri