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UK Contracts Finder (official API record), Cefas award notice CEFAS21-99, OCPP image annotation for machine learning algorithm

2 records were read from this source, dated 2 Dec 2021 to 22 Aug 2024.

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Record	Kind	As stated	Dated
Pixelwise segmentation of at least 5,000 high-resolution drone images of UK beaches into at least 50 marine-litter classes, for a machine-learning model (Cefas, UK government)	Price observation	£30,000 per contract (at least 5,000 images, Dec 2021 to Mar 2022)	2 Dec 2021
Public buyers set a much lower per-image ceiling when the annotation order is bigger	Negotiation lever	The UK government science agency Cefas paid about £6.00 to £6.64 an image for annotation…	22 Aug 2024

Pixelwise segmentation of at least 5,000 high-resolution drone images of UK beaches into at least 50 marine-litter classes, for a machine-learning model (Cefas, UK government)
Kind
Price observation
As stated
£30,000 per contract (at least 5,000 images, Dec 2021 to Mar 2022)
Dated
2 Dec 2021
Public buyers set a much lower per-image ceiling when the annotation order is bigger
Kind
Negotiation lever
As stated
The UK government science agency Cefas paid about £6.00 to £6.64 an image for annotation…
Dated
22 Aug 2024

Figures it feeds

$1.22 per imageImages, made to order, per image
2.3xHow much more buyers pay than makers are paid for images, per image