PaperReading

Extreme clicking for efficient object annotation

December 2019

tl;dr: Annotate extreme points to replace conventional bbox annotation leads to same accuracy, reduced annotation time and additional information.

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This paper inspired ExtremeNet.

This work is extended to DEXTR: Deep Extreme Cut: From Extreme Points to Object Segmentation that extends extreme points to instance segmentation masks.

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