{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/mask-editor-an-image-annotation-tool-for","title":"Mask Editor : an Image Annotation Tool for Image Segmentation Tasks","arxiv_id":"1809.06461","date":"2018-09-17","proceeding":null,"authors":["Chuanhai Zhang","Kurt Loken","Zhiyu Chen","Zhiyong Xiao","Gary Kunkel"],"abstract":"Deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) is the state-of-the-art method for\nimage segmentation, which is one of key challenging computer vision tasks.\nHowever, DCNN requires a lot of training images with corresponding image masks\nto get a good segmentation result. Image annotation software which is easy to\nuse and allows fast image mask generation is in great demand. To the best of\nour knowledge, all existing image annotation software support only drawing\nbounding polygons, bounding boxes, or bounding ellipses to mark target objects.\nThese existing software are inefficient when targeting objects that have\nirregular shapes (e.g., defects in fabric images or tire images). In this paper\nwe design an easy-to-use image annotation software called Mask Editor for image\nmask generation. Mask Editor allows drawing any bounding curve to mark objects\nand improves efficiency to mark objects with irregular shapes. Mask Editor also\nsupports drawing bounding polygons, drawing bounding boxes, drawing bounding\nellipses, painting, erasing, super-pixel-marking, image cropping, multi-class\nmasks, mask loading, and mask modifying.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06461v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.06461v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"mask-editor-an-image-annotation-tool-for","repo_url":"https://github.com/Chuanhai/Mask-Editor","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"image-cropping","task_name":"Image Cropping"},{"task_slug":"image-segmentation","task_name":"Image Segmentation"},{"task_slug":"semantic-segmentation","task_name":"Semantic Segmentation"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"dcnn","method_name":"DCNN"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}