CMU talk: Bringing people in the loop

VASC Seminar
Monday, February 16

Bringing people in the loop: data annotation and real-time visual supervision with Amazon Mechanical Turk
Alexander Sorokin
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


Abstract:

In this talk I will challenge the common assumption that "we will never have enough labeled data". As of today, large annotated datasets can be built very quickly and cheaply. To achieve that a number of questions needs to be answered. I will discuss what properties of the tasks affect the quality of the final result as well as cost and speed of task completion. I will further highlight how people in the loop framework expands the range of possible applications.

Bio:
Alexander Sorokin is a 5th year PhD student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has received BS from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2003. In 2007 he received a best paper award at InfoVis 2007 for the paper "Visualizing the History of Living Spaces".