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Status Future consideration
Categories MVI
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 7, 2022

Automatic creation of validation sets

Current process: When a revised model is trained, it is deployed and tested on a larger dataset (5000+ images). Plant users don’t want to replace a model that is already QLS enabled unless there is high confidence in its performance. This is easy for inspections which are binary detections and failures are rare. In these cases, just removing existing labels and running an auto label process over the entire dataset, then reviewing the limited number of failures found to check for correctness and false failure rate is sufficient.

For cases which are more categorization based the process requires sorting and categorizing all variants based on their original labels, then removing the previous labels and autolabelling them with the newly deployed model. Finally, all of these images must be checked. This is feasible on a small scale, but for thousands of images and 20+ categories it becomes very tedious and potentially error prone.

Idea priority Low