Aug 20 - Cold Pool to Hot Queue: Annotation Curation with FiftyOne

In this hands-on workshop, you'll use FiftyOne to run the full rare-class mining loop end-to-end on a large unlabeled image pool: compress the pool with near-duplicate detection, embed images with a modern vision backbone, mine candidate positives via seeded similarity from a tiny labeled set, confirm them through targeted human review, and prioritize the survivors for annotation using representativeness and uniqueness scores.

Time, Date and Location

Aug 20, 2026
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM PST, 2026
Online. Register for the Zoom!

What You'll Walk Away With

A working FiftyOne pipeline for finding rare classes in any visual dataset you own
A repeatable four-stage funnel — compress, mine, confirm, prioritize — with a clear objective at each stage
A fine-tuned detector that demonstrably outperforms one trained on the same number of randomly sampled images
The mental model that data curation — not architecture or hyperparameters — is the highest-leverage thing you can do to improve a rare-class detector