"These are some of the best HITS I've ever done!" — Mechanical Turk worker
vatic is a free, online, interactive video annotation tool for computer vision research that crowdsources work to Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Our tool makes it easy to build massive, affordable video data sets and can be deployed on a cloud. After three years of research, vatic is now used by labs around the world to annotate the next generation of data sets.
The latest copy of our code is available for download:
wget http://mit.edu/vondrick/vatic/vatic-install.sh
chmod +x vatic-install.sh
./vatic-install.sh
cd vatic
less READMEPlease read the README file for proper installation. If you run into any trouble, don't hesitate to contact us.
Other researchers have developed extensions that add additional features to VATIC:
If you use their software in a paper, please cite them appropriately.
If you use our software or our data sets, please cite:
Carl Vondrick, Donald Patterson, Deva Ramanan. "Efficiently Scaling Up Crowdsourced Video Annotation" International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV). June 2012. [pdf]
@article {springerlink:10.1007/s11263-012-0564-1,
author = {Vondrick, Carl and Patterson, Donald and Ramanan, Deva},
affiliation = {Department of Computer Science, UC Irvine, Irvine, USA},
title = {Efficiently Scaling up Crowdsourced Video Annotation},
journal = {International Journal of Computer Vision},
publisher = {Springer Netherlands},
issn = {0920-5691},
keyword = {Computer Science},
pages = {1-21},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11263-012-0564-1},
note = {10.1007/s11263-012-0564-1},
}We thank Sangmin Oh, Allie Janoch, Sergey Karayev, Kate Saenko, Jenny Yuen, Antonio Torralba, Justin Chen, Will Zou, Baris Evrim Demiroz, Marco Antonio Valenzuela Escarcega, Alper Aydemir, David Owens, Hamed Pirsiavash, our user study participants, and the thousands of annotators for testing our software and offering invaluable insight throughout this study.
Funding for this research was provided by NSF grants 0954083 and 0812428, ONR-MURI Grant N00014-10-1-0933, DARPA Contract No. HR0011-08-C-0135, an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, support from Intel, and an Amazon AWS grant.
Copyright © 2011 Carl Vondrick, Deva Ramanan, and Donald Patterson
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