agasti:vesuvius:gci2012:annotation

You are here: start » agasti » vesuvius » gci2012 » annotation
This page is read only. You can view the source, but not change it. Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong.
**[[agasti:vesuvius:gci2012 | Sahana Vesuvius - Tasks for Google Code-in 2012]]**
===== Annotating Images of Faces with ImageStats [Category: QA/Testing] =====

{{:agasti:vesuvius:gci2012:annotation:frontal_face_example.jpg| Frontal face example }}

This page last updated Jan 11th.

**Deadline has passed to claim ImageStats tasks**\\
As previously announced, 23:00 UTC Friday, January 11, 2013 was the deadline.  Unclaimed tasks have been removed.

== Skills Needed ==
Familiarity with using a web browser.  Also, the need to judge certain rectangle colors, which may impede those with certain forms of color blindness.  No software coding is involved.

== Browser Prerequisites ==
The task requires access to a recent browser that has HTML 5 support.  Chrome is recommended.  **- NEW -**

== Introduction and Purpose ==
Research is going on to develop and improve face-detection and face-matching algorithms.  Such computer algorithms may ideally help current and future projects involved with preparedness, disaster response, family reunification, and medical assistance, including Sahana Vesuvius and its manifestation as NLM’s People Locator (PL).

To assist with algorithm training/testing and in establishing “ground truth”, you are asked to annotate images of faces with drawn rectangles, or judge such annotations.  A web tool, “ImageStats”, has been built for this, using part of the Vesuvius/PL infrastructure and additional open-source components.  A customized-for-GCI version is available at:\\
http://lhce-pl-web01.nlm.nih.gov/imagestats\\
Over 40,000 public images are available, but the work here will be subdivided into GCI-sized tasks.

A typical task would involve approximately 400 images, each of which has one or more faces.  For each face, you must ensure that there is an appropriately-placed rectangle around it, with the rectangle’s color marking it as a front or profile view. Some judgement can be involved in both aspects.
Note: at the outset of GCI, during a “pilot phase”, only a limited number of annotation tasks will be available, and these will all be “facial annotation” as just described.  After a while, tasks will be more numerous and include “skin annotation” as well.

== Claiming a Task ==
Go to the Melange task list, pick an available ImageStats task, and note the “Event” name there:

  *     If it begins with “Face...”, it’s a “Facial Annotation” task;
  *     If it begins with “Skin...”, it’s a “Skin Annotation” task.

**IMPORTANT: In a Melange comment when claiming your first ImageStats task, include your email address.  This will speed up sending you your account username & password.**

(Note: Initially, during the pilot phase, tasks were done in duplicate by two different students, indicated by task names beginning in "01_" and "02_".  When that was true, if you had done a particular "01_" task (e.g., "Face 01_05"), then you were asked not to do the "02" task (e.g., "Face 02_05"), or vice versa.  However, to simplify things, only the "01_" tasks will be routinely available now.)

== Registering Once to Use ImageStats ==
The ImageStats team needs your email address to register you.  Get it to us (but not before you have claimed a task) either by:

    * Including it in a Melange comment as indicated above (recommended);
    * Sending email to imagestatsaccount@nlm.nih.gov, with the subject line “Register for ImageStats Tasks”.

You will be sent back a user name and password, that the mentor will associate with your particular task.  Be patient, this is a manual process. Ideally, this response happens before the mentor grants your claim.

== Conducting Your Task with ImageStats - Getting your Set of Pictures and Navigating Through Them ==

Go to http://lhce-pl-web01.nlm.nih.gov/imagestats and log-on with your registered user ID and password.

Remember, any particular task here will be EITHER Facial Annotation, or Skin Annotation, BUT NOT BOTH.

  * [[agasti:vesuvius:gci2012:annotation:face | Specific Instructions - Facial Annotation Task]]
  * [[agasti:vesuvius:gci2012:annotation:skin | Specific Instructions - Skin Annotation Task]]


== Claiming Another ImageStats Task ==
Use Melange as before.  In a comment, it will be helpful to mention that you already have a username and password.  The mentor will then associate your new task with your existing user name, ideally prior to granting your claim.

== Questions and Comments ==
Send email to discuss@sahanafoundation.org

== FYI - About the Images ==
The GCI tasks draw from the “Annotated Facial Landmarks in the Wild” set of over 40,000 public images.  As the name implies, there are some annotations available for this set, but these are of a different style than what we need.
For instance, the skin annotations collected here will provide a fuller distribution of skin tones under different lighting conditions for training than is currently available.  Note that any particular task set of images is not likely to have representative skin tones from the world at large, but the AFLW corpus as a whole plus other planned sources should provide adequate coverage.

== FYI - About ImageStats ==
This was rapid-prototyped from a number of open source components, among them Vesuvius, GWT, GXT, vaadin, Tomcat, mysql, and SOLR.  The instance is hosted and managed using NLM’s Vesuvius/PL infrastructure.  Current thinking is that ImageStats is overly complicated in structures and dependencies, and might be fruitfully reimplementation in a simpler manner... a possible Google Summer of Code 2013 project.  Source code is available [[https://github.com/national-library-of-medicine/imagestats|here]].
Trace:
Navigation

Quick Links:

Search

Toolbox

QR Code
