Incremental Semi-Supervised Learning from Streams for Object Classification

Chiotellis I, Zimmermann F, Cremers D, Triebel R (2018)


Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2018

Journal

Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Pages Range: 5743-5749

Conference Proceedings Title: IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Event location: Madrid, ESP

ISBN: 9781538680940

DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2018.8593901

Abstract

The Label Propagation (LP) algorithm, first introduced by Zhu and Ghahramani [1], is a semi-supervised method used in transductive learning scenarios, where all data are available already in the beginning. In this work, we present a novel extension of the LP algorithm for applications where data samples are observed sequentially - as is the case in autonomous driving. Specifically, our 'Incremental Label Propagation' algorithm efficiently approximates the so called harmonic solution on a nearest-neighbor graph that is regularly updated by new labeled and unlabeled nodes. We achieve this by reformulating the original algorithm based on an active set of nodes and by introducing a threshold to decide whether the label of a given node should be updated or not. Our method can also deal with graphs that are not fully connected, and we give a formal convergence proof for this general case. In experiments on the challenging KITTI benchmark data stream, we show superior performance in terms of both test accuracy and number of required training labels compared to state-of-the-art online learning methods.

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APA:

Chiotellis, I., Zimmermann, F., Cremers, D., & Triebel, R. (2018). Incremental Semi-Supervised Learning from Streams for Object Classification. In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (pp. 5743-5749). Madrid, ESP: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..

MLA:

Chiotellis, Ioannis, et al. "Incremental Semi-Supervised Learning from Streams for Object Classification." Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2018, Madrid, ESP Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018. 5743-5749.

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