When it’s time to train an image recognition model you need to start with a library of labeled images that can be used as training data for your algorithm. To make gathering this data easier, Amazon provides the crowd-image-classifier element within their Crowd HTML Elements library. This library makes it Read more…
When I first joined the Amazon MTurk team a colleague at Amazon commented that it was frustrating that MTurk couldn’t be used with services like Zapier to schedule tasks for MTurk Workers to tackle. She had a side business in real estate investment and thought it would be useful to Read more…
We learned earlier this week that Uber had acquired Mighty AI, one of the leaders in building training data for computer vision. Most of the articles have focused on Uber’s self-driving car ambitions, which is reasonable considering the importance of training data to their efforts. That said, there are a Read more…
Earlier this year I made the decision to end my twelve year tenure at Amazon to pursue something new. It was incredibly hard to leave, not least because it meant leaving my role leading business development for the Amazon Mechanical Turk and SageMaker Ground Truth teams where I had been Read more…