Block Annotation ICCV 2019

Block Inpainting

Initial code release Feb 5, 2020. See /block_inpainting/README.txt.

Creating Block Images

Create highlighted block images to annotate:

python create_highlighted_block_images.py

Annotation Interface

Block images can be annotated with existing polygon annotation tools.

For example, see:

• Labelme: https://github.com/wkentaro/labelme
• OpenSurfaces: https://github.com/seanbell/opensurfaces-segmentation-ui (http://opensurfaces.cs.cornell.edu/)
• COCO UI: https://github.com/tylin/coco-ui

For our experiments, we build our crowdsourcing pipeline by extending OpenSurfaces:

Sample instructions for workers:

Citation

If our work is useful to you, please consider citing:

@inproceedings{lin2019block,
  title={Block Annotation: Better Image Annotation with Sub-Image Decomposition},
  author={Lin, Hubert and Upchurch, Paul and Bala, Kavita},
  booktitle={2019 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
  year={2019}
}