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Supervised neural approaches are hindered by their dependence on large, meticulously annotated datasets, a requirement that is particularly cumbersome for sequential tasks. The quality of annotations tends to deteriorate with the transition…

Active learning (AL) algorithms aim to identify an optimal subset of data for annotation, such that deep neural networks (DNN) can achieve better performance when trained on this labeled subset. AL is especially impactful in industrial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Zeyad Ali Sami Emam , Hong-Min Chu , Ping-Yeh Chiang , Wojciech Czaja , Richard Leapman , Micah Goldblum , Tom Goldstein

Surgical phase recognition is a key task in computer-assisted surgery, aiming to automatically identify and categorize the different phases within a surgical procedure. Despite substantial advancements, most current approaches rely on fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Or Rubin , Shlomi Laufer

While deep learning is a powerful tool for natural language processing (NLP) problems, successful solutions to these problems rely heavily on large amounts of annotated samples. However, manually annotating data is expensive and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Rishi Hazra , Parag Dutta , Shubham Gupta , Mohammed Abdul Qaathir , Ambedkar Dukkipati

Active learning (AL) is a learning paradigm where an active learner has to train a model (e.g., a classifier) which is in principal trained in a supervised way, but in AL it has to be done by means of a data set with initially unlabeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-23 Adrian Calma , Tobias Reitmaier , Bernhard Sick , Paul Lukowicz , Mark Embrechts

We address the problem of extracting key steps from unlabeled procedural videos, motivated by the potential of Augmented Reality (AR) headsets to revolutionize job training and performance. We decompose the problem into two steps:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Anshul Shah , Benjamin Lundell , Harpreet Sawhney , Rama Chellappa

LiDAR-based semantic segmentation plays a vital role in autonomous driving by enabling detailed understanding of 3D environments. However, annotating LiDAR point clouds is extremely costly and requires assigning semantic labels to millions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Ruiyu Mao , Sarthak Kumar Maharana , Xulong Tang , Yunhui Guo

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

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) aims to detect the start and end timestamps of actions in a video. However, the training of TAL models requires a substantial amount of manually annotated data. Data programming is an efficient method to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Yuchen He , Jianbing Lv , Liqi Cheng , Lingyu Meng , Dazhen Deng , Yingcai Wu

As deep learning continues to evolve, the need for data efficiency becomes increasingly important. Considering labeling large datasets is both time-consuming and expensive, active learning (AL) provides a promising solution to this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yifeng Wang , Xueying Zhan , Siyu Huang

Active Learning (AL) is a user-interactive approach aimed at reducing annotation costs by selecting the most crucial examples to label. Although AL has been extensively studied for image classification tasks, the specific scenario of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Leah Bar , Boaz Lerner , Nir Darshan , Rami Ben-Ari

Training machine learning models for classification tasks often requires labeling numerous samples, which is costly and time-consuming, especially in time series analysis. This research investigates Active Learning (AL) strategies to reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Shemonto Das

This paper aims to develop a novel cost-effective framework for face identification, which progressively maintains a batch of classifiers with the increasing face images of different individuals. By naturally combining two recently rising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Liang Lin , Keze Wang , Deyu Meng , Wangmeng Zuo , Lei Zhang

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

In this work, we focus on label efficient learning for video action detection. We develop a novel semi-supervised active learning approach which utilizes both labeled as well as unlabeled data along with informative sample selection for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Ayush Singh , Aayush J Rana , Akash Kumar , Shruti Vyas , Yogesh Singh Rawat

The canonical approach to video action recognition dictates a neural model to do a classic and standard 1-of-N majority vote task. They are trained to predict a fixed set of predefined categories, limiting their transferable ability on new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Mengmeng Wang , Jiazheng Xing , Yong Liu

Surgical AI often involves multiple tasks within a single procedure, like phase recognition or assessing the Critical View of Safety in laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Traditional models, built for one task at a time, lack flexibility,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Soham Walimbe , Britty Baby , Vinkle Srivastav , Nicolas Padoy

Surgical scene segmentation is fundamentally crucial for prompting cognitive assistance in robotic surgery. However, pixel-wise annotating surgical video in a frame-by-frame manner is expensive and time consuming. To greatly reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Yang Yu , Zixu Zhao , Yueming Jin , Guangyong Chen , Qi Dou , Pheng-Ann Heng

Humans perceive actions through key transitions that structure actions across multiple abstraction levels, whereas machines, relying on visual features, tend to over-segment. This highlights the difficulty of enabling hierarchical reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Junxian Huang , Ruichu Cai , Hao Zhu , Juntao Fang , Boyan Xu , Weilin Chen , Zijian Li , Shenghua Gao

The development of X-Ray microscopy (XRM) technology has enabled non-destructive inspection of semiconductor structures for defect identification. Deep learning is widely used as the state-of-the-art approach to perform visual analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Lile Cai , Ramanpreet Singh Pahwa , Xun Xu , Jie Wang , Richard Chang , Lining Zhang , Chuan-Sheng Foo