Decomposition Sampling for Efficient Region Annotations in Active Learning

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Hauptverfasser: Qiu, Jingna, Wilm, Frauke, Öttl, Mathias, Utz, Jonas, Schlereth, Maja, Schillinger, Moritz, Aubreville, Marc, Breininger, Katharina
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author Qiu, Jingna
Wilm, Frauke
Öttl, Mathias
Utz, Jonas
Schlereth, Maja
Schillinger, Moritz
Aubreville, Marc
Breininger, Katharina
author_facet Qiu, Jingna
Wilm, Frauke
Öttl, Mathias
Utz, Jonas
Schlereth, Maja
Schillinger, Moritz
Aubreville, Marc
Breininger, Katharina
contents Active learning improves annotation efficiency by selecting the most informative samples for annotation and model training. While most prior work has focused on selecting informative images for classification tasks, we investigate the more challenging setting of dense prediction, where annotations are more costly and time-intensive, especially in medical imaging. Region-level annotation has been shown to be more efficient than image-level annotation for these tasks. However, existing methods for representative annotation region selection suffer from high computational and memory costs, irrelevant region choices, and heavy reliance on uncertainty sampling. We propose decomposition sampling (DECOMP), a new active learning sampling strategy that addresses these limitations. It enhances annotation diversity by decomposing images into class-specific components using pseudo-labels and sampling regions from each class. Class-wise predictive confidence further guides the sampling process, ensuring that difficult classes receive additional annotations. Across ROI classification, 2-D segmentation, and 3-D segmentation, DECOMP consistently surpasses baseline methods by better sampling minority-class regions and boosting performance on these challenging classes. Code is in https://github.com/JingnaQiu/DECOMP.git.
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spellingShingle Decomposition Sampling for Efficient Region Annotations in Active Learning
Qiu, Jingna
Wilm, Frauke
Öttl, Mathias
Utz, Jonas
Schlereth, Maja
Schillinger, Moritz
Aubreville, Marc
Breininger, Katharina
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Active learning improves annotation efficiency by selecting the most informative samples for annotation and model training. While most prior work has focused on selecting informative images for classification tasks, we investigate the more challenging setting of dense prediction, where annotations are more costly and time-intensive, especially in medical imaging. Region-level annotation has been shown to be more efficient than image-level annotation for these tasks. However, existing methods for representative annotation region selection suffer from high computational and memory costs, irrelevant region choices, and heavy reliance on uncertainty sampling. We propose decomposition sampling (DECOMP), a new active learning sampling strategy that addresses these limitations. It enhances annotation diversity by decomposing images into class-specific components using pseudo-labels and sampling regions from each class. Class-wise predictive confidence further guides the sampling process, ensuring that difficult classes receive additional annotations. Across ROI classification, 2-D segmentation, and 3-D segmentation, DECOMP consistently surpasses baseline methods by better sampling minority-class regions and boosting performance on these challenging classes. Code is in https://github.com/JingnaQiu/DECOMP.git.
title Decomposition Sampling for Efficient Region Annotations in Active Learning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07606