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Title: Intelligent Image Collection: Building the Optimal Dataset
Key recognition tasks such as fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) have benefited from increasing attention among computer vision researchers. The development and evaluation of new approaches relies heavily on benchmark datasets; such datasets are generally built primarily with categories that have images readily available, omitting categories with insufficient data. This paper takes a step back and rethinks dataset construction, focusing on intelligent image collection driven by: (i) the inclusion of all desired categories, and, (ii) the recognition performance on those categories. Based on a small, author-provided initial dataset, the proposed system recommends which categories the authors should prioritize collecting additional images for, with the intent of optimizing overall categorization accuracy. We show that mock datasets built using this method outperform datasets built without such a guiding framework. Additional experiments give prospective dataset creators intuition into how, based on their circumstances and goals, a dataset should be constructed.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1651832
NSF-PAR ID:
10323483
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
2020 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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