Title
Visual recognition with humans in the loop
Abstract
We present an interactive, hybrid human-computer method for object classification. The method applies to classes of objects that are recognizable by people with appropriate expertise (e.g., animal species or airplane model), but not (in general) by people without such expertise. It can be seen as a visual version of the 20 questions game, where questions based on simple visual attributes are posed interactively. The goal is to identify the true class while minimizing the number of questions asked, using the visual content of the image. We introduce a general framework for incorporating almost any off-the-shelf multi-class object recognition algorithm into the visual 20 questions game, and provide methodologies to account for imperfect user responses and unreliable computer vision algorithms. We evaluate our methods on Birds-200, a difficult dataset of 200 tightly-related bird species, and on the Animals With Attributes dataset. Our results demonstrate that incorporating user input drives up recognition accuracy to levels that are good enough for practical applications, while at the same time, computer vision reduces the amount of human interaction required.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/978-3-642-15561-1_32
ECCV (4)
Keywords
Field
DocType
visual version,simple visual attribute,questions game,computer vision,attributes dataset,visual recognition,general framework,visual content,animal species,appropriate expertise,difficult dataset,object recognition,human interaction
Computer vision,3D single-object recognition,Imperfect,Computer science,Human interaction,Visual recognition,Computer vision algorithms,Artificial intelligence,Machine learning,Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
6314
0302-9743
3-642-15560-X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
190
8.94
20
Authors
7
Search Limit
100190
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Steve Branson182238.59
Catherine Wah235616.57
Florian Schroff375732.72
Boris Babenko4195671.80
Peter Welinder557428.22
pietro perona6164331969.06
Serge J. Belongie7125121010.13