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Guide to: Running a Dots Job with Labels

The cml:shapes tag allows users to create an image annotation job for dots in conjunction with a custom ontology and the use of test questions and aggregation.

Building a job

The following CML contains the possible parameters for a dot with labels job:

<cml:shapes type="['dot']" source-data="{{image_url}}" name="annotation" label="Annotate this image" validates="required" ontology="true" dot-distance="10" dot-threshold="0.7" dot-agg="10" class-threshold="0.7" class-agg="agg" output-format="json" allow-image-rotation="true"/>

There are parameters for test questions and aggregation that apply to both the dots and the labels.

Parameters

Below are the parameters available for the cml:shapes tag. Some are required in the element, some can be left out.

  • type
    • The shape used in the job, set in an array.
    • To use multiple shapes in one job, include each shape in the array, separated by commas, e.g., 'type="['box','dot','polygon','line']"'
      • You’ll need to include the corresponding parameters for each shape
  • source-data
    • The column from your source data that contains the image URLs to be annotated.
  • name
    • The results header where annotations will be stored.
  • label
    • The question label contributors will see.
  • validates (optional)
    • Whether or not this element is required to be answered.
    • Accepts ‘required’
    • Defaults to not required if not present
  • ontology (optional)
    • The list of classes to be labeled in an image - view this article to learn how to create your custom ontology.
    • Accepts a boolean.
    • Defaults to ‘false’ if not present.
  • review-data (optional)
    • This will read in existing annotations on an image. The format must match the output shown in the aggregation section below. All that’s needed is the following:
      • 'type'
      • 'class' if using an ontology
      • 'coordinates'
      • 'id'
      • Example: [{“class”:“car”,“coordinates”:{“x”:903,“y”:753},“type”:“dot”,“id”:“95a0b08c-b621-4dda-b983-967fe11e384e”}]
  • dot-distance
    • The maximum pixel distance between a test question dot and a contributor’s dot in order for the dot to be considered correct.
    • Accepts an integer.
  • dot-threshold
    • The minimum percentage of correct dots in a test question for a contributor to be considered correct. Accepts a decimal value between 0.1 and 0.99.
    • The formula is correct / (correct + incorrect)
    • Example: the dot-threshold is set to 0.7 and a test question contains 10 ground truth dots. A contributor gets 8 out of 10 dots correct for a score of 80% and they’re marked correct on the test question.
  • dot-agg
    • The maximum distance between result dots to be clustered together. Accepts an integer or the value ‘all’.
    • If ‘all’ is selected, no clustering is done on the dots.
  • class-threshold
    • The minimum percentage of correct classes applied to dots in a test question for a contributor to be considered correct. Accepts a decimal value between 0.1 and 0.99.
    • The formula is correct / (correct + incorrect)
    • Example: the class-threshold is set to 0.7 and a test question contains 10 ground truth shapes. A contributor gets 8 out of 10 classes correct for a score of 80% and they’re marked correct on the test question.
  • class-agg
    • The aggregation applied to the class for a given cluster of shapes. Accepts standard aggregation types:
      • agg
      • all
      • agg_x
      • cagg_x
  • output-format (optional)
    • Accepts 'json' or 'url'
    • If ‘json’, the report column containing contributors' annotation data contains the annotation data in stringified JSON format. The JSON format is as follows (this is the legacy JSON format): 
      • [ 
          { 
            "id": "4bc1ba1d-ede9-4b80-9892-95fced615441", 
            "class": "Car", 
            "type": "dot", 
            "coordinates": {
              "x": 416, 
              "y": 243, 
            } 
          } 
        ]
    • If ‘url’, the report column containing contributors' annotation data contains links to files. Each file contains annotation data for a single data row in JSON format. With this new output option, we have updated the JSON structure to allow inclusion of more data fields. The new JSON format is as follows: 
      • { 
          ableToAnnotate: true, 
          imageRotation: 30, 
          annotation: [{ 
            "id": "4bc1ba1d-ede9-4b80-9892-95fced615441", 
            "class": "Car", 
            "type": "dot", 
            "coordinates": { 
              "x": 416, 
              "y": 243, 
            }
          }]
        }
    • In the case where the tool was unable to load the input data and the contributor was unable to annotate, ableToAnnotate will be set to false.
    • Defaults to ‘json’ if attribute not present.
    • This parameter is available within the CML only; it is not yet supported in the Graphical Editor.
  • allow-image-rotation (optional)
    • Accepts true or false
    • If true, contributors can rotate the image within the image annotation tool. Contributors click a toolbar icon to turn on a rotation slider that can be used to adjust rotation angle from 0 to 359 degrees. The degrees rotated are exported in the imageRotation field. This feature is only compatible with export option output-format=url; this attribute must be added to the job cml before launch.
      • Important note: Test questions and aggregation are not currently available for this annotation mode.

    • If false, contributors cannot rotate the image.

    • Defaults to false if attribute not present.

  • task-type (optional)
    • Please set task-type=”qa” when designing a review or QA job. This parameter needs to be used in conjunction with review-data . See this article for more details.

Shape Type Limiter

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Min/Max instance quantity

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  • Comes with the ability to mark the class as not present for long tail scenarios. This information will be added to the output as well.blobid2.png

Customizable Hotkeys

  • Hotkeys can be assigned to classes by the user. Hotkeys cannot conflict with any other browser or tool shortcuts.

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Creating test questions

When using the cml:shapes tag, the behavior of test questions and aggregation will change based on the shapes chosen and whether or not your job includes an ontology.

  1. On the quality page, click “Create Test Questions”
  2. Add dots on the objects in the way you specified via your job's instructions. If no annotations are needed, make sure your job includes an option to hide the annotation tool.
  3. Save Test Question.

Reviewing test questions

  1. Select a test question from the quality page.
  2. From the image annotation sidebar, click ‘Find a Judgment’ and choose a contributor ID from the drop-down.
  3. Edit, create or remove your own annotations based on feedback. Judgments are color coded based on if they match the gold responses.
    • Each dot will have its own matching metrics, which you can see by hovering over a contributor judgment or golden dot. A notification will appear in the top left corner of the image. The pixel distance between the contributor and the golden dot is shown. If using an ontology, the class match is also displayed.
    • The overall matching score as described above is displayed in the left sidebar of the tool.
  4. Save any edits that are made to update the evaluation of the existing contributors' work and ensure any future attempts to answer the test question will be properly evaluated.

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Fig. 1 test question scores

Aggregation

Dots

Aggregation for dots using cml:shapes works as follows:

  • You’ll set the dot-agg parameter in the CML, which is the pixel distance used for clustering dots prior to aggregation.
    • For example, if the dot-agg is 10, dots that are within 10 pixels of each other will be clustered together.
  • Each dot has a contributor trust score associated with it.
  • The dots are weighted by the trust score, then aggregated, and a new dot is returned. The aggregated dot includes the average trust score of all contributor trust scores in the cluster.

Classes/labels

The class-agg parameter accepts the following standard aggregation methods: agg, all, agg_x, cagg_x

Labels (or classes) are aggregated per returned dot. This means, for example, if you choose to aggregate dots - as opposed to selecting 'all' - and you choose, class-agg="agg" for each aggregated dot you'd receive the most confident label out of the constituent dots in the cluster. If you choose, class-agg="all" you'd receive every label applied to the cluster of dots, but still just one dot, and so on. For, dot-agg="all" you'd receive every dot and every label in the image, no aggregation. Labels will always be grouped with the shape they were applied to and will be returned in a dictionary.

Example output of a job with dot-agg="10" and class-agg="agg":[{“average_trust”:0.7857,“class”:{“car”:1.0},“coordinates”:{“x”:1191,“y”:306},“type”:“dot”}]

Example output of a job with dot-agg="10" and class-agg="all":[{“average_trust”:0.7857,“class”:{“car”:0.33,”person”:0.33,”tree”:0.33},“coordinates”:{“x”:1191,“y”:306},“type”:“dot”}]

Reviewing results

To review the results of your job, you can either use our In-Platform Audit feature (recommended), or the following:

  1. Go to the Data page.
  2. Click on a unit ID.
  3. In the sidebar of the annotation tool, select an option from the drop down menu.
    1. You’ll see different contributor IDs, which allow you to view individual annotations.
    2. You’ll also see an “aggregated” option, which shows you the result you’ll get based on your aggregation settings in the CML or report options page of your job.

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