Suggestion.. simplify main UI once unified mode has add labels..

[dobkeratops]

So at the moment the main UI has got quite complicated, I think this is a consequence of the evolutionary path .. maybe you could reduce this to a “unified/search mode” for users who want to guide their work, and an “automatic/task mode” for casual users who want the system to guide them.(not sure what the best names are)

.. ie simplify the entry point to the modes based on this one choice..

If a user has a specific task or domain in mind (“road vs pavement for self driving cars”) they can use the unified mode and do the annotations that interest them - even if the label list is long, it’s just another part of the search process (if they had searched images they would still go through some sort of filtering process).

Conversely maybe you can also streamline the “task mode” by alternately serving ‘add labels’ and ‘annotate’, but you could bias the rate depending on the current state of the database (if there are fresh labels with no annotations, serve those.. if there are a bunch of new images without any classification, serve those maybe hinting to ask for scene labels)

Would an approach like this allow you to simplify the individual screens out a bit aswell - eg does the unified view remove the need for the “go to” shortcuts?

I’ve omitted “describe image” in this, i kind of hope this could be put in the unified view aswell eventually there could be an editable line of text above the image.. or it could be compacted in the label list (or scene label list?) maybe it would get too crowded though

I had tried to make some labels which combined description with labels using square brackets to divide things up, eg [[man] riding [elephant]], [[dog] in [garden]] ... (nesting.. you could annotate the man plus elephant , and man and elephant as individual objects.. ‘dog in garden’ is a typical main label that describes a whole image, yielding ‘dog’ as a labelable component) but I’m night sure how those would fit in the label menu. But Those are actually easier to write than a whole image description (trying to string together a whole sentence .. if it’s a very complex scene you can break it into pieces)