Active Large-scale Learning for Visual Recognition
The ERC advanced grant ALLEGRO of Cordelia Schmid started in April 2013.
The aim of ALLEGRO is to automatically learn from large quantities of data with weak labels. A massive and ever growing amount of digital image and video content is available today. It often comes with additional information, such as text, audio or other meta-data, that forms a rather sparse and noisy, yet rich and diverse source of annotation, ideally suited to emerging weakly supervised and active machine learning technology.
The ALLEGRO project will take visual recognition to the next level by using this largely untapped
source of data to automatically learn visual models. We will develop approaches capable of autonomously
exploring evolving data collections, selecting the relevant information, and determining the visual models
most appropriate for different object, scene, and activity categories. An emphasis will be put on learning visual
models from video, a particularly rich source of information, and on the representation of human activities,
one of today's most challenging problems in computer vision.