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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2021
Filed:
May. 07, 2019
Figure Eight Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Humayun Irshad, San Francisco, CA (US);
Seyyedeh Qazale Mirsharif, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kiran Vajapey, San Francisco, CA (US);
Monchu Chen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Caiqun Xiao, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert Munro, San Francisco, CA (US);
Figure Eight Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Image annotation includes: accessing an image and a plurality of annotation data sets for the image, wherein the plurality of annotation data sets are made by a plurality of contributors, and the image has a plurality of original image channels; aggregating the plurality of annotation data sets to obtain an aggregated annotation data set for the image; and outputting the aggregated annotation data set. Aggregating the plurality of annotation data sets to obtain an aggregated annotation data set for the image includes: generating an additional image channel based at least in part on weight averages of confidence measures of the plurality of contributors; and applying an object detection model to at least a part of the plurality of original image channels and at least a part of the additional image channel to generate the aggregated annotation data set.