Using Human Intelligence Tasks for Precise Image Analysis
First Claim
1. A system for obtaining information from imagery, the system comprising:
- an image analysis subsystem configured to;
present imagery to a plurality of worker interfaces;
receive a plurality of user responses regarding the imagery; and
determine a count of one or more object of interests present in the imagery based on the user responses; and
a non-spatial correlation subsystem configured to;
correlate the count of the objects with a non-spatial data; and
predict a future non-spatial data based on a future count and the correlation between the non-spatial data and the count.
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Abstract
Described are systems, methods, computer programs, and user interfaces for image location, acquisition, analysis, and data correlation that uses human-in-the-loop processing, Human Intelligence Tasks (HIT), and/or or automated image processing. Results obtained using image analysis are correlated to non-spatial information useful for commerce and trade. For example, images of regions of interest of the earth are used to count items (e.g., cars in a store parking lot to predict store revenues), detect events (e.g., unloading of a container ship, or evaluating the completion of a construction project), or quantify items (e.g., the water level in a reservoir, the area of a farming plot).
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20 Claims
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1. A system for obtaining information from imagery, the system comprising:
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an image analysis subsystem configured to; present imagery to a plurality of worker interfaces; receive a plurality of user responses regarding the imagery; and determine a count of one or more object of interests present in the imagery based on the user responses; and a non-spatial correlation subsystem configured to; correlate the count of the objects with a non-spatial data; and predict a future non-spatial data based on a future count and the correlation between the non-spatial data and the count. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A system for estimating non-spatial data from overhead imagery, the system comprising:
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a location search subsystem configured to concert a received location query into one or more derived coordinates; an image acquisition subsystem configured to obtain imagery of a polygon of interest based on the derived coordinates; an image analysis subsystem configured to; process the obtained imagery to distinguish one or more objects of interest from a background of the imagery; receive results determined from the objects of interest; and a non-spatial correlation subsystem configured to determine a correlation between a non-spatial data and the results.
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