Google Inc.

Zhen Hao Zhou

Neil G Alldrin

Charles Joseph Rosenberg

Samy Bengio

Thomas J Duerig

David Cai

Bin Shen

Maya Rani Gupta

Maks Ovsjanikovs

Implementations include actions of receiving an initial data set including a plurality of images, each image being associated with a set of labels, wherein each label in the set of labels is assigned to a respective image of the plurality of images by an initial model, the initial model being specific to a ground-truth label; for each image in the plurality of images: providing a list of categories associated with a respective image based on a respective set of labels, and determining a primary category of the respective image based on the list of categories; determining a category of the ground-truth label; and providing a revised data set based on the initial data set by comparing the category to primary categories of respective images in the plurality of images, the initial model being trained based on the revised data set to provide a revised model.

Image annotation based on label consensus

Methods, systems and apparatus for refining image annotations. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, for each image in a set of images, a corresponding set of labels determined to be indicative of subject matter of the image. For each label, one or more confidence values are determined. Each confidence value is a measure of confidence that the label accurately describes the subject matter of a threshold number of respective images to which it corresponds. Labels for which each of the one or more confidence values meets a respective confidence threshold are identified as high confidence labels. For each image in the set of images, labels in its corresponding set of labels that are high confidence labels are identified. Images having a corresponding set of labels that include at least a respective threshold number of high confidence labels are identified as high confidence images.

Refining image annotations

Methods, systems and apparatus for assigning labels to images. In general, in one aspect, a method includes determining, for an image, a first set of labels, each label being determined to be indicative of subject matter of the image based on content feature values of the image, for each label in the first set of labels, determining a second set of labels, each label in the second set of labels determined to be semantically related to the label in the first set of labels, assigning a score to each label in the second sets of labels, and based on the scores assigned to each label in the second sets of labels, assigning one or more of the labels in the second sets of labels to the image.

Assigning labels to images

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Zhen Hao Zhou