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Published March 27, 2018 | Published
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Systems and methods for distributed data annotation

Abstract

Systems and methods for distributed data annotation in accordance embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a distributed data annotation server system includes a storage device configured to store source data, one or more annotators, annotation tasks and a processor, wherein a distributed data annotation application configures the processor to receive source data including one or more pieces of source data, select one or more annotators, create one or more annotation tasks for the selected annotators and source data, request one or more annotations for the source data using the annotation tasks, receive annotations, determine source data metadata for at least one piece of source data using the received annotations, generate annotator metadata for at least one annotator using the received annotations and the source data, and estimate the ground truth for the source data using the source data metadata and the annotator metadata.

Additional Information

Application filed: March 6, 2014. Application published: July 3, 2014. Patent granted: March 27, 2018. FEDERAL FUNDING SUPPORT: This invention was made with government support under AGS0941760 awarded by the National Science Foundation and under N00014-08-1-0638; N00014-06-1-0734 awarded by the NAVY. The government has certain rights in the invention. CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS: The current application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/651,108, filed Oct. 12, 2012, that claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61/546,386, titled "Algorithm for Estimating for Annotator Expertise, Bias and Competence and Image Difficulty in Binary Image Annotation" and filed Oct. 12, 2011, the disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.

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