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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2013
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (US);
Peter Welinder, San Diego, CA (US);
Pietro Perona, Altadena, CA (US);
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for determining annotator performance in the distributed annotation of source data in accordance embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for clustering annotators includes obtaining a set of source data, determining a training data set representative of the set of source data, obtaining sets of annotations from a set of annotators for a portion of the training data set, for each annotator determining annotator recall metadata based on the set of annotations provided by the annotator for the training data set and determining annotator precision metadata based on the set of annotations provided by the annotator for the training data set, and grouping the annotators into annotator groups based on the annotator recall metadata and the annotator precision metadata.