In many vision tasks, contextual information can often help disambiguate confusions arising from appearance information. In this talk, I will discuss two different works, which deal with effective utilization of contextual information to improve the performance of active learning for scene understanding and multi-attribute based image retrieval. | In many vision tasks, contextual information can often help disambiguate confusions arising from appearance information. In this talk, I will discuss two different works, which deal with effective utilization of contextual information to improve the performance of active learning for scene understanding and multi-attribute based image retrieval. |