Ask HN: Where is the industry to get large amounts of video data annotated?

#1

Post by rdabane » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 1:18 AM UTC

I'm looking for outsourcing firms to get hours of video data annotated .. on the topic, are there any good open source tools for video annotations ?

Re: Ask HN: Where is the industry to get large amounts of video data annotated?

#2

Post by mtmail » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 1:27 AM UTC

Have a look at https://www.scaleapi.com/ and https://www.crowdflower.com/use-cases/

Re: Ask HN: Where is the industry to get large amounts of video data annotated?

#3

Post by rdabane » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 2:33 AM UTC

mtmail wrote: post #2

Have a look at https://www.scaleapi.com/ and https://www.crowdflower.com/use-cases/

Thanks. Would you happen to know where these firms source the human labor from?

Re: Ask HN: Where is the industry to get large amounts of video data annotated?

#4

Post by mtmail » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 3:29 AM UTC

rdabane wrote: post #3

mtmail wrote: post #2

Have a look at https://www.scaleapi.com/ and https://www.crowdflower.com/use-cases/

Thanks. Would you happen to know where these firms source the human labor from?

Amazon Mechanical Turk (https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome) is pretty transparent on their homepage how you can earn money. Amazon also lets you decide how much money per task you're willing to spend.

https://gengo.com/ for example has a subpage linked in the footer to attract translators https://gengo.com/translators/

The others, especially with a premium appearance, keep that more separate. I assume they created separate brands or use subcontractors and run "easy money, work from home" classifieds ads in english speaking countries to get people in.