Title
Bylabel: A Boundary Based Semi-Automatic Image Annotation Tool
Abstract
This paper presents a novel boundary based semiautomatic tool, ByLabel, for accurate image annotation. Given an image, ByLabel first detects its edge features and computes high quality boundary fragments. Current labeling tools require the human to accurately click on numerous boundary points. ByLabel simplifies this to just selecting among the boundary fragment proposals that ByLabel automatically generates. To evaluate the performance of ByLabel, 10 volunteers, with no experiences of annotation, labeled both synthetic and real images. Compared to the commonly used tool LabelMe, ByLabel reduces image-clicks and time by 73% and 56% respectively, while improving the accuracy by 73% (from 1.1 pixel average boundary error to 0.3 pixel). The results show that our ByLabel outperforms the state-of-the-art annotation tool in terms of efficiency, accuracy and user experience. The tool is publicly available: http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/similar to vis/bylabel/.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/WACV.2018.00200
2018 IEEE WINTER CONFERENCE ON APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTER VISION (WACV 2018)
Field
DocType
ISSN
Computer vision,LabelMe,User experience design,Annotation,Automatic image annotation,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Image segmentation,Pixel,Artificial intelligence,Real image
Conference
2472-6737
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xuebin Qin1327.95
Shida He222.73
Zichen Vincent Zhang392.26
Masood Dehghan4497.11
Martin Jägersand533443.10