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CONTRIBUTE TO LABELME

Guidelines: The goal of LabelMe is to collect contributions from many people so that we can build a large high quality database for research on object recognition. Here there are some basic guidelines about the best way to label images:

1.  Label as many objects and regions as you can within the same image.

Trace the boundary of an object.

It is better to label several objects from the same image, than to label one object in many images.

Then you will be asked to enter its name (e.g., car, building, etc.). Use a name that you think other people would also use.

                  

You can use multiple words to describe one object.

2. Follow the object boundary, ignoring occlusions.

When there are occlusions, follow the boundary of the object as if it was not occluded:

 

If you label multiple objects, we can later reason about which parts of the image are occluded.  We know the car should be on top of the road:

 

If an object is heavily occluded, then you only need to label the visible region.

3.  Label regions, objects and parts

We are interested in objects such as cars, pedestrians, tables. But we are also interested in regions such as the sky, buildings, sidewalks, walls, etc.

You can also label parts (e.g., the legs of a table, the wheels of a car).

We can use that information later to reason about what objects are part of others by studying how many times they overlap.

Each time you label an object, the data is continuously being saved. You can quit at any moment. The objects you label are made available for research immediately.

CONTRIBUTE TO LABELME