{
  "id": 18766,
  "title": "Hand Labeling",
  "url": "/competitions/yelp-restaurant-photo-classification/discussion/18766",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2016-02-05T02:57:51.087Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 2,
  "views": 640,
  "content": "<p>Hi Admins,</p>\n\n<p>I was wondering if hand labelling is allowed on images in the training set? For example, I would like to label (if an individual image is outdoor/indoors, or contains food, etc) and use the resultant model trained on those labels for predicting on the test set.</p>\n\n<p>The main motivation is that there is a lot of noise in the pictures (irrelevant pictures to the categories provided), and hand labelling a subset of the training images might prove useful in guiding the classifier to detect relevant pictures and ignore others.</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "106936",
      "postDate": "02/05/2016 02:57:51",
      "content": "<p>Hi Admins,</p>\n\n<p>I was wondering if hand labelling is allowed on images in the training set? For example, I would like to label (if an individual image is outdoor/indoors, or contains food, etc) and use the resultant model trained on those labels for predicting on the test set.</p>\n\n<p>The main motivation is that there is a lot of noise in the pictures (irrelevant pictures to the categories provided), and hand labelling a subset of the training images might prove useful in guiding the classifier to detect relevant pictures and ignore others.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi Admins,\r\n\r\nI was wondering if hand labelling is allowed on images in the training set? For example, I would like to label (if an individual image is outdoor/indoors, or contains food, etc) and use the resultant model trained on those labels for predicting on the test set.\r\n\r\nThe main motivation is that there is a lot of noise in the pictures (irrelevant pictures to the categories provided), and hand labelling a subset of the training images might prove useful in guiding the classifier to detect relevant pictures and ignore others.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "106943",
      "postDate": "02/05/2016 05:46:09",
      "content": "<p>Hi JP_smasher, hand labeling is explicitly forbidden in the rules section - the multi-instance aspect of the problem is part of the challenge.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi JP_smasher, hand labeling is explicitly forbidden in the rules section - the multi-instance aspect of the problem is part of the challenge.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "106954",
      "postDate": "02/05/2016 09:44:35",
      "content": "<p>Ok thanks!</p>\n\n<p>My bad for not reading the rules carefully.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Ok thanks!\r\n\r\nMy bad for not reading the rules carefully.",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 106943,
      "author_name": "ody30357",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "02/05/2016 05:46:09",
      "content": "<p>Hi JP_smasher, hand labeling is explicitly forbidden in the rules section - the multi-instance aspect of the problem is part of the challenge.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 106954,
      "author_name": "wongjingping",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "02/05/2016 09:44:35",
      "content": "<p>Ok thanks!</p>\n\n<p>My bad for not reading the rules carefully.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "106936": "Hi Admins,\r\n\r\nI was wondering if hand labelling is allowed on images in the training set? For example, I would like to label (if an individual image is outdoor/indoors, or contains food, etc) and use the resultant model trained on those labels for predicting on the test set.\r\n\r\nThe main motivation is that there is a lot of noise in the pictures (irrelevant pictures to the categories provided), and hand labelling a subset of the training images might prove useful in guiding the classifier to detect relevant pictures and ignore others.",
    "106943": "Hi JP_smasher, hand labeling is explicitly forbidden in the rules section - the multi-instance aspect of the problem is part of the challenge.",
    "106954": "Ok thanks!\r\n\r\nMy bad for not reading the rules carefully."
  },
  "source": "meta"
}