Towards a Crowd-based Picture Schematization System

Picture schematization has shown to be a very important step for a wide range of applications and remains challenging as an active research area. Many automation methods have been proposed to solve this problem but yet far from expectation. Since crowdsourcing has been successfully applied to fill the gap that AI can not reach yet, we are interested to explore how crowdsourcing can be utilized into this area. This paper briefly summarizes our recent efforts towards building a feasible crowd-based system to schematise pictures in a reliable and cost-effective way.