FreeLabel: A publicly available annotation tool based on freehand traces

Philipe A. Dias, Zhou Shen, Amy Tabb, Henry Medeiros

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Abstract

Large-scale annotation of image segmentation datasets is often prohibitively expensive, as it usually requires a huge number of worker hours to obtain high-quality results. Abundant and reliable data has been, however, crucial for the advances on image understanding tasks achieved by deep learning models. In this paper, we introduce FreeLabel, an intuitive open-source web interface that allows users to obtain high-quality segmentation masks with just a few freehand scribbles, in a matter of seconds. The efficacy of FreeLabel is quantitatively demonstrated by experimental results on the PASCAL dataset as well as on a dataset from the agricultural domain. Designed to benefit the computer vision community, FreeLabel can be used for both crowdsourced or private annotation and has a modular structure that can be easily adapted for any image dataset.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2019 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2019
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages21-30
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781728119755
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 4 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event19th IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2019 - Waikoloa Village, United States
Duration: Jan 7 2019Jan 11 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2019 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2019

Conference

Conference19th IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityWaikoloa Village
Period01/7/1901/11/19

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