I-Corps: An automatic training dataset labelling tool to fill the gap for missing training image datasets

这个I-Corps项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力是开发自动训练数据集标签工具和服务。 目前，标记是手动完成的，这是耗时的，并且对高质量的训练数据集有很高的需求。 虽然流行的口语应用程序可以利用众多专门的训练数据集通用标签器团队来帮助创建训练数据集，但它对科学和专业领域提出了一个重大挑战，即生成高质量的训练数据集以输入人工智能/机器学习（AI/ML）模型和算法。 所提出的技术使用半自动训练数据集标记工具和在线管理服务来促进图像数据集的自动裁剪、分割和标记。 图像是一种流行的数据类型，广泛应用于气候变化、智慧城市、医疗和健康领域。 这项技术可以减少数百万数据科学专业人员、研究人员和学生以及公司和其他组织在获取训练数据集上花费的时间和资源。这个I-Corps项目基于开发一个软件训练数据集标签工具和在线服务，可以自动填补缺失的高质量训练图像数据集的差距。基于时空人工智能/机器学习（AI/ML）的功能正在开发中，用于在一组用户之间自动分类、标记、存储和共享训练数据集。所提出的技术旨在提供自动数据标记软件工具，以自动标记数据并帮助识别和分类数据。 该过程可以用于为机器学习模型创建训练数据集。 具体来说，这是一个图像标记工具，可用于对数字图像进行分类和标记。 这项技术最初是为海冰研究开发的，结果证实海冰图像可以自动标记。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is the development of an automatic training dataset labelling tool and service. Currently, labelling is accomplished manually, which is time-consuming, and there is a high demand for high-quality training datasets. While popular spoken language applications can leverage numerous teams of dedicated training dataset general labelers to help create training datasets, it poses a significant challenge for scientific and professional domains to produce high-quality training datasets to feed into Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) models and algorithms. The proposed technology uses a semi-automatic training dataset labelling tool and online management service to facilitate automatic cropping, segmenting, and labelling of image datasets. Images are a popular data type that is widely used in climate change, smart cities, medical and health domains. The proposed technology may reduce the time and resources spent on obtaining training datasets by millions of data science professionals, researchers, and students, as well as companies and other organizations.This I-Corps project is based on the development of a software training dataset labelling tool and online service that works automatically to fill the gap of missing high-quality training image datasets. Spatiotemporal Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML)-based capabilities are under development to automatically classify, label, store, and share training datasets among a group of users. The proposed technology is designed to provide an automated data labeling software tool to automatically tag data and help to identify and classify the data. This process may be used to create training datasets for machine learning models. Specifically, this is an image labelling tool that may be used to classify and label digital images. The proposed technology was developed initially for sea ice research and results confirmed that sea ice images can be automatically labelled. This technology potentially may be used in many areas including climate change and biomedical research.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.