Hello,
I'm concerned about the quality of the annotations in this dataset. It appears that automatic annotation tools may have been used, as the annotation quality is quite poor. The main challenge in this competition seems to be detecting Trophozoites, not because they are relatively small objects, but because they look very similar to other unlabeled (background) objects in many images.
I'm not familiar with what a Trophozoite is, but a general rule in computer vision: if it's difficult to detect objects with the human eye, it will be even more challenging for a model to do so. As you can see in the attached images, Trophozoites look very similar to non-annotated objects in the background.
My main questions are:
Yea, we agree with this.
@Amy_Bray Would the hosts of this challenge be able to answer this question for us? I believe this is the most pressing issue.
I have the same concern. should we reannote the dataset @Zindi ?
Hello @Zindi, please reply to this for confirmation.