Scalable Multi-label Annotation

Jia Deng, Olga Russakovsky, Jonathan Krause, Michael Bernstein, Alex Berg, and Li Fei-Fei
CHI: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2014
We study strategies for scalable multi-label annotation, or for efficiently acquiring multiple labels from humans for a collection of items. We propose an algorithm that exploits correlation, hierarchy, and sparsity of the label distribution. A case study of labeling 200 objects using 20,000 images demonstrates the effectiveness of our approach. The algorithm results in up to 6x reduction in human computation time compared to the na ??ve method of querying a human annotator for the presence of every object in every image.

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