ConfLabeling: Assisting Image Labeling with User and System Confidence

Yi Lu   Chia-Ming Chang   Takeo Igarashi


Abstract
Interactive labeling supports manual image labeling by presenting system predictions for users to fix errors. However, existing labeling methods do not effectively consider image difficulty, which may affect system predic-tions and user labeling. We introduce ConfLabeling, a confidence-based la-beling interface that represents image difficulties as user and system confi-dence. This interface allows users to give a confidence score to each label assignment (user confidence), and our system visualizes the results of pre-dictions with confidence levels (system confidence). We expect user confi-dence to improve system prediction, and system confidence would help us-ers quickly and correctly identify the images that need to be inspected. We conducted a user study to compare our proposed confidence-based interface with a conventional non-confidence interface in an interactive image label-ing task of varying difficulty. The results indicate that the proposed confi-dence-based interface achieved higher classification accuracy than a non-confidence interface when the image was not too difficult.

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Publication
Yi Lu, Chia-Ming Chang and Takeo Igarashi, 2022, ConfLabeling: Assisting Image Labeling with User and System Confidence. The 24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International 2022), Virtual Conference, 26 June-1 July 2022 [PDF]

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