Assisted ground truth generation using interactive segmentation on a visualization and annotation tool
Urmila Sampathkmar, V. B. Surya Prasath, Sachin Meenay, Kannappan Palaniappan · 2016
User driven interactive image segmentation provides a flexible framework for obtaining supervised object detection in digital images. Firefly is a rich interactive web-based tool that helps researchers from multiple domains to work collaboratively on ground truth generation, annotating, and tracking events/objects in images and videos on a remote (secure) archive. It is based on a Client-Server model written in Adobe Flex and PHP which uses MySQL database for storing the annotations. We have recently proposed a novel user seed points based interactive segmentation approach with spline interpolation. In this work, we integrate the elastic spline based segmentation method with a Firefly. Firefly provides an automatic analysis of segmentation results by executing Matlab scripts in the background. We provide user cases in segmenting natural, and biomedical imagery which requires minimal effort and no storage requirement on the user side.