In this paper, we presented the annotation propagation tool we designed to be used in conjunction with the BRAT rapid annotation tool. We designed two experiments to annotate a corpus of 60 files, first not using our tool, second using our propagation tool. We evaluated the annotation time and the quality of annotations. We shown that using the annotation propagation tool reduces by 31.7% the t...

This session features exciting keynote speeches by Rajeev Madhavan (Chairman & CEO, Magma Design Automation), Michael Reinhardt (CEO & President, RubiCAD), and Shekhar Borker (Intel Fellow & Director of Circuit Research Lab). In the first keynote speech, titled “Addressing the IC Designer’s Needs: Integrated Design Software for Faster, More Economical Chip Design”, Rajeev Madhaven highlights th...

Crowdsourced demarcations of object boundaries in images (segmentations) are important for many vision-based applications. A commonly reported challenge is that a large percentage of crowd results are discarded due to concerns about quality. We conducted three studies to examine (1) how does the quality of crowdsourced segmentations differ for familiar everyday images versus unfamiliar biomedic...