Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus is a managed data labeling service that makes it easy to label data for machine learning (ML) applications. One common use case is semantic segmentation, which is a computer vision ML technique that involves assigning class labels to individual pixels in an image. For example, in video frames captured by a moving vehicle, class labels can include vehicles, pedestrians, roads, traffic signals, buildings, or backgrounds. It provides a high-precision understanding of the locations of different objects in the image and is often used to build perception systems for autonomous vehicles or robotics. To build an ML model for semantic segmentation, it is first necessary to label a large volume of data at the pixel level. This labeling process is complex. It requires skilled labelers and significant time—some images can take up to 2 hours or more to label accurately!
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