Label-efficient Single Photon Images Classification via Active Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04376v1
• Date: Wed, 07 May 2025 12:57:40 GMT
• Title: Label-efficient Single Photon Images Classification via Active Learning
• Authors: Zili Zhang, Ziting Wen, Yiheng Qiang, Hongzhou Dong, Wenle Dong, Xinyang Li, Xiaofan Wang, Xiaoqiang Ren,
• Abstract summary: Single-photon LiDAR achieves high-precision 3D imaging in extreme environments through quantum-level photon detection technology.<n>Current research focuses on reconstructing 3D scenes from sparse photon events, whereas the semantic interpretation of single-photon images remains underexplored.<n>This paper presents the first active learning framework for single-photon image classification.
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• Abstract: Single-photon LiDAR achieves high-precision 3D imaging in extreme environments through quantum-level photon detection technology. Current research primarily focuses on reconstructing 3D scenes from sparse photon events, whereas the semantic interpretation of single-photon images remains underexplored, due to high annotation costs and inefficient labeling strategies. This paper presents the first active learning framework for single-photon image classification. The core contribution is an imaging condition-aware sampling strategy that integrates synthetic augmentation to model variability across imaging conditions. By identifying samples where the model is both uncertain and sensitive to these conditions, the proposed method selectively annotates only the most informative examples. Experiments on both synthetic and real-world datasets show that our approach outperforms all baselines and achieves high classification accuracy with significantly fewer labeled samples. Specifically, our approach achieves 97% accuracy on synthetic single-photon data using only 1.5% labeled samples. On real-world data, we maintain 90.63% accuracy with just 8% labeled samples, which is 4.51% higher than the best-performing baseline. This illustrates that active learning enables the same level of classification performance on single-photon images as on classical images, opening doors to large-scale integration of single-photon data in real-world applications.

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