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by bertdb 1922 days ago
Thanks! The existing tools on the market for image segmentation are not very sophisticated, so it's a niche where we can immediately make a difference.

In a sense, image segmentation labels are strictly more informative than bounding box labels: you can trivially extract the containing bounding box from a segmentation mask. One big reason that segmentation labels are not used more often, is simply because they are too expensive. Labeling a bounding box requires only two clicks, while labeling a segmentation mask requires much more time with manual tools. We're trying to solve that problem.

In the future we want to dig even deeper into this problem, and expand our scope to video and 3D segmentation labeling. We believe there will be a huge need for such tools now that everyone is getting smartphones with Lidar and AR/VR capabilities in their pockets.