Loss-based active learning via double-branch deep network. (21st September 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Fang, Qiang; Xu, Xin; Tang, Dengqing
• Is Part Of: International journal of advanced robotic systems. Volume 18:Number 5(2021)
• Publication Date: 2021-09-21
• Subjects: Active learning -- image classification -- deep learning -- ResNet -- object detection; Robotics -- Periodicals; Robotics; Periodicals; 629.892
• DOI: 10.1177/17298814211044930
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1729-8806

Abstract

Due to the limitation of data annotation and the ability of dealing with label-efficient problems, active learning has received lots of research interest in recent years. Most of the existing approaches focus on designing a different selection strategy to achieve better performance for special tasks; however, the performance of the strategy still needs to be improved. In this work, we focus on improving the performance of active learning and propose a loss-based strategy that learns to predict target losses of unlabeled inputs to select the most uncertain samples, which is designed to learn a better selection strategy based on a double-branch deep network. Experimental results on two visual recognition tasks show that our approach achieves the state-of-the-art performance compared with previous methods. Moreover, our approach is also robust to different network architectures, biased initial labels, noisy oracles, or sampling budget sizes, and the complexity is also competitive, which demonstrates the effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed approach.