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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2014
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 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.