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48 results for Tracking annotations

Paper introduces TAP-Vid, a benchmark for tracking any point in videos.

problem Tackles the problem of tracking arbitrary physical points on surfaces over longer video clips.
method Formalizes the problem as TAP, introduces TAP-Vid benchmark, uses crowdsourced pipeline with optical flow estimates, proposes TAP-Net model.
result TAP-Net outperforms all prior methods on TAP-Vid benchmark when trained on synthetic data.

Robust detection and tracking of objects is crucial for the deployment of autonomous vehicle technology. Image based benchmark datasets have driven development in computer vision tasks such as object detection, tracking and segmentation of agents in the environment. Most autonomous vehicles, however, carry a combinatio…

2019-03-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Wearable smart suit tracks infant movements with high accuracy.

problem Early detection of atypical motor development in infants.
method Developed a multi-sensor smart suit for data collection, trained a deep CNN algorithm for automatic posture and movement classification.
result Setup achieves human equivalent accuracy in infant posture and movement classification.

Structured learning is appropriate when predicting structured outputs such as trees, graphs, or sequences. Most prior work requires the training set to consist of complete trees, graphs or sequences. Specifying such detailed ground truth can be tedious or infeasible for large outputs. Our main contribution is a large m…

2012-06-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Automated radar data labeling using GNSS improves efficiency without sacrificing accuracy.

problem Manual annotation of automotive radar data is time-consuming and error-prone.
method The article introduces an automated system using GNSS to acquire data labels.
result The proposed method provides clear advantages in time savings with minimal data distortion.

SoccerCPD detects tactical changes in soccer matches using spatiotemporal tracking data.

problem Detecting consistent team formations in fluid sports like soccer.
method Two-step change-point detection: formation and role changes.
result Accurately detects tactical changes and estimates formation and role assignments.

The paper extends influence functions to sequence tagging tasks for better model interpretability.

problem Lack of interpretability methods for sequence tagging models.
method Define and compute influence of training instance segments on test segment predictions.
result The segment influence method tracks with true influence and identifies annotation errors.

This paper clusters networks with annotated time-series data using kernel-ARMA and Grassmannian geometry.

problem Clustering networks with annotated time-series data, including state, node, and subnetwork clustering.
method Extract features from time-series data using kernel-ARMA, map onto Grassmannian, and cluster using Riemannian geometry.
result The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art clustering schemes on brain-network data.

Deep learning maps tongue movements to speech sounds for voiceless individuals.

problem Developing silent speech interfaces for individuals without a larynx.
method Hybrid spatio-temporal 3D convolutions and feature shuffling for formant estimation and tracking from ultrasound tongue images.
result Best model achieves R-squared of 99.96% for vowel formant regression.

Interactive weak supervision learns useful heuristics from user feedback.

problem Creating useful heuristics for large labeled datasets is tedious and subjective.
method Develops an interactive framework for learning heuristics from user feedback.
result Only a few feedback iterations are needed to train models without ground truth labels.

Paper tackles musical version matching at segment level using contrastive learning from weakly-labeled data.

problem Match musical versions at the segment level, not just tracks, with weak annotations.
method Proposes contrastive learning from weakly-labeled audio segments, using a new loss variant.
result Breakthrough performance in segment-level evaluation, outperforming state-of-the-art.

Study shows annotation instrument design affects model performance in hate speech detection.

problem Impact of annotation instrument design on model performance in hate speech detection.
method Collected annotations from five experimental conditions of an annotation instrument, fine-tuned BERT models on each dataset, evaluated performance on holdout portion.
result Significant differences in model performance and annotations across conditions.

Active learning selects both observations and annotation precision for Gaussian Processes.

problem Costly annotation in supervised learning.
method Proposes an active learning algorithm that selects observations and annotation precision, using a modified BALD objective.
result Empirically shows the benefits of adjusting annotation precision in active learning.

One of the problems on the way to successful implementation of neural networks is the quality of annotation. For instance, different annotators can annotate images in a different way and very often their decisions do not match exactly and in extreme cases are even mutually exclusive which results in noisy annotations a…

2018-07-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Generative model combines multi-dimensional annotations for more accurate ground truth estimation.

problem Inaccurate ground truth estimation from naive annotators' multi-dimensional annotations.
method Proposes a joint multi-dimensional model for global and time-series annotation fusion using Expectation-Maximization algorithm.
result More accurate ground truth estimates through joint modeling of multiple dimensions.

Survey on AL strategies for cost-effective annotation in classification.

problem Real-world AL challenges due to human annotators' limitations.
method Categorizes 60 real-world AL strategies considering multiple annotators, query types, and cost schemes.
result General real-world AL strategy introduced for categorization of 60 strategies.

RAD improves robustness to domain annotation noise without explicit domain annotations.

problem Robustness to domain annotation noise in training data.
method Regularized Annotation of Domains (RAD) for last layer retraining.
result RAD outperforms state-of-the-art methods even with 5% noise in training data.

Accurate annotation of medical image is the crucial step for image AI clinical application. However, annotating medical image will incur a great deal of annotation effort and expense due to its high complexity and needing experienced doctors. To alleviate annotation cost, some active learning methods are proposed. But …

2019-01-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Large financial dataset tracks FOMC communications and their impact.

problem Understanding how FOMC communications influence financial markets.
method Constructed a large annotated dataset of FOMC speeches, minutes, and transcripts. Developed a hawk-dove classification task. Evaluated various models on the dataset and used RoBERTa-large for monetary policy stance measurement.
result Monetary policy stance measures derived from FOMC documents predict market performance.

New system for automatic music emotion recognition considers multiple emotions simultaneously.

problem Automatic recognition of simultaneous and multiplicity of emotions in music.
method Comparison of multilabel and multiclass machine learning algorithms on the Emotify dataset.
result The Geneva Emotional Music Scale 9 is adopted for multilabel and multiclass classification of music emotions.

The study challenges the notion that partial data annotation is inferior, suggesting it can sometimes outperform complete annotation.

problem The inefficiency and high cost of completely annotating structured data.
method Information theoretic formulation applied to three diverse structured learning tasks.
result Learning from partial structures can sometimes outperform learning from complete ones.

A new method uses triplet embeddings to improve human annotation for hidden constructs.

problem Improving human annotation for hidden constructs in machine learning.
method Proposes a novel annotation approach using triplet embeddings to lift absolute annotations to relative comparisons.
result Successfully represents synthetic hidden constructs in time under noisy sampling conditions.

PTBCC improves accuracy in multi-class annotation aggregation by learning from prototype confusion matrices.

problem Inaccurate and insufficient confusion matrices for annotators in multi-class classification tasks.
method PTBCC (ProtoType learning-driven Bayesian Classifier Combination) uses prototype confusion matrices to capture annotator expertise.
result PTBCC achieves up to 15% accuracy improvement and 3% higher average accuracy compared to existing methods.

Paper proposes an efficient method for bounding box annotation in object detection.

problem Manual annotation of bounding boxes is tedious and resource-intensive.
method Iterative training of object detector on small batches of labeled images, with human annotator correcting errors.
result Significant reduction in human annotation effort, up to 75%.

Paper proposes a weak supervision technique for CNN semantic segmentation of lung diseases using partially annotated data.

problem Creating annotated datasets for semantic segmentation of lung diseases is laborious and time-consuming.
method Proposes a weak supervision technique that utilizes partially annotated datasets to improve CNN semantic segmentation accuracy.
result Significantly improved segmentation accuracy using partially annotated datasets.

AxCell automates results extraction from machine learning papers.

problem Difficulty in tracking progress in machine learning due to many papers.
method AxCell uses table segmentation and learns structural knowledge to extract results.
result AxCell significantly improves results extraction compared to existing methods.

The increase in data collection has made data annotation an interesting and valuable task in the contemporary world. This paper presents a new methodology for quickly annotating data using click-supervision and hierarchical object detection. The proposed work is semi-automatic in nature where the task of annotations is…

2018-10-01abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper proposes incentivizing human annotators with 'golden questions' to improve data quality.

problem Ensuring high-quality human annotations for training large language models.
method A principal-agent model is used to incentivize annotators with bonuses based on the maximum likelihood estimators (MLE) of their annotations. Hypothesis testing is applied to monitor the annotators' performance.
result The hypothesis testing rate for the principal-agent model is of Θ(1/nlogn)Θ(1/\sqrt{n \log n}), highlighting the importance of 'golden questions' for monitoring annotators.

Paper proposes active learning for sound event detection with reduced annotation effort.

problem Reducing annotation effort for sound event detection.
method Change point detection for candidate selection, mismatch-first farthest-traversal for selection, training with context recordings.
result The proposed system achieves similar performance to full annotation with only 2% of data, reducing annotation effort.