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Modern machine learning algorithms need large datasets to be trained. Crowdsourcing has become a popular approach to label large datasets in a shorter time as well as at a lower cost comparing to that needed for a limited number of experts.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Alexey Drutsa , Viktoriya Farafonova , Valentina Fedorova , Olga Megorskaya , Evfrosiniya Zerminova , Olga Zhilinskaya

Crowdsourced data supports real-time decision-making but faces challenges like misinformation, errors, and contributor power concentration. This study systematically examines trust management practices across platforms categorised as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Iffat Gheyas , Muhammad Rizwan Asghar , Steve Schneider , Alan Woodward

Crowd counting is an effective tool for situational awareness in public places. Automated crowd counting using images and videos is an interesting yet challenging problem that has gained significant attention in computer vision. Over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Muhammad Asif Khan , Hamid Menouar , Ridha Hamila

The unprecedented demand for large amount of data has catalyzed the trend of combining human insights with machine learning techniques, which facilitate the use of crowdsourcing to enlist label information both effectively and efficiently.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-26 Yao Zhou , Jingrui He

We study crowdsourcing quality management, that is, given worker responses to a set of tasks, our goal is to jointly estimate the true answers for the tasks, as well as the quality of the workers. Prior work on this problem relies primarily…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Akash Das Sarma , Aditya Parameswaran , Jennifer Widom

The recent boom in crowdsourcing has opened up a new avenue for utilizing human intelligence in the realm of data analysis. This innovative approach provides a powerful means for connecting online workers to tasks that cannot effectively be…

Applications · Statistics 2024-02-29 Chen Jason Zhang , Yunrui Liu , Pengcheng Zeng , Ting Wu , Lei Chen , Pan Hui , Fei Hao

We present CrowdHub, a tool for running systematic evaluations of task designs on top of crowdsourcing platforms. The goal is to support the evaluation process, avoiding potential experimental biases that, according to our empirical…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Jorge Ramírez , Simone Degiacomi , Davide Zanella , Marcos Baez , Fabio Casati , Boualem Benatallah

As the use of crowdsourcing increases, it is important to think about performance optimization. For this purpose, it is possible to think about each worker as a HPU(Human Processing Unit), and to draw inspiration from performance…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Chen Cao , Zheng Liu , Lei Chen , H. V. Jagadish

Quality improvement methods are essential to gathering high-quality crowdsourced data, both for research and industry applications. A popular and broadly applicable method is task assignment that dynamically adjusts crowd workflow…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Danula Hettiachchi , Vassilis Kostakos , Jorge Goncalves

Mobile crowdsourcing refers to systems where the completion of tasks necessarily requires physical movement of crowdworkers in an on-demand workforce. Evidence suggests that in such systems, tasks often get assigned to crowdworkers who…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Ralf Bruns , Jeremias Dötterl , Jürgen Dunkel , Sascha Ossowski

What is the state of the research on crowdsourcing for policy making? This article begins to answer this question by collecting, categorizing, and situating an extensive body of the extant research investigating policy crowdsourcing, within…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-02-13 John Prpic , Araz Taeihagh , James Melton

Modern machine learning approaches have led to performant diagnostic models for a variety of health conditions. Several machine learning approaches, such as decision trees and deep neural networks, can, in principle, approximate any…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Peter Washington

Crowdsourcing models applied to work on mobile devices continuously reach new ways of solving sophisticated problems, now with a use of portable advanced devices, where users are not limited to a stationary use. There exists an open problem…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-05-29 Oskar Jarczyk

The field of human computation and crowdsourcing has historically studied how tasks can be outsourced to humans. However, many tasks previously distributed to human crowds can today be completed by generative AI with human-level abilities,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Jonas Oppenlaender , Ujwal Gadiraju , Simo Hosio

Crowdsourcing has become a popular method for collecting labeled training data. However, in many practical scenarios traditional labeling can be difficult for crowdworkers (for example, if the data is high-dimensional or unintuitive, or the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-14 Tom Hope , Dafna Shahaf

Scholars have increasingly investigated "crowdsourcing" as an alternative to expert-based judgment or purely data-driven approaches to predicting the future. Under certain conditions, scholars have found that crowdsourcing can outperform…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-12-12 Daniel Martin Katz , Michael James Bommarito , Josh Blackman

Crowd analysis and management is a challenging problem to ensure public safety and security. For this purpose, many techniques have been proposed to cope with various problems. However, the generalization capabilities of these techniques is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Tauseef Ali , Ahmed B. Altamimi

Crowdsourcing can solve problems that current fully automated systems cannot. Its effectiveness depends on the reliability, accuracy, and speed of the crowd workers that drive it. These objectives are frequently at odds with one another.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2014-08-29 Walter S. Lasecki , Christopher M. Homan , Jeffrey P. Bigham

Linguistically diverse datasets are critical for training and evaluating robust machine learning systems, but data collection is a costly process that often requires experts. Crowdsourcing the process of paraphrase generation is an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Youxuan Jiang , Jonathan K. Kummerfeld , Walter S. Lasecki

We consider unsupervised crowdsourcing performance based on the model wherein the responses of end-users are essentially rated according to how their responses correlate with the majority of other responses to the same subtasks/questions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-10-11 G. Kesidis , A. Kurve