Package proposal for mech_turk_ros.

Overview

The mech_turk_ros package will include tools for real-time robot communication with the annotation server. These will allow the robot to stream images for annotation, listen to the annotation messages in real-time and use "annotate" action to request the image annotation. Additional tools will allow to stream existing annotations as ROS messages. As a temporary measure, the package will contain a link topic tool that will register annotation publisher from the web server in the local master.

Details

The package will contain:

• ROS message definitions for the bounding box and polygon annotations (in mech_turk_ros_msgs)
• snapper.py - a node to send all images from a topic to the annotation server
• link_topic.py - a tool to register remote publisher in a local master
• session_2_messages.py - a tool to download results from the server and publish them as messages
• annotate_image_action.py - the action server for image annotation.