{
  "id": 49406,
  "title": "What are Encoded pixels?",
  "url": "/competitions/data-science-bowl-2018/discussion/49406",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2018-02-10T17:49:08.011662500Z",
  "votes": 5,
  "comment_count": 3,
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  "content": "<p>In stage_1_train_labels.csv, what does encoded pixels/ represent? Do they represent a boundary for the mask? Can you also tell the way to visualize them?</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "280700",
      "postDate": "02/10/2018 17:49:08",
      "content": "<p>In stage_1_train_labels.csv, what does encoded pixels/ represent? Do they represent a boundary for the mask? Can you also tell the way to visualize them?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "In stage_1_train_labels.csv, what does encoded pixels/ represent? Do they represent a boundary for the mask? Can you also tell the way to visualize them?",
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    {
      "id": "281208",
      "postDate": "02/12/2018 07:49:12",
      "content": "<p>Check out this kernel, its Run Length Encoding\n<a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/rakhlin/fast-run-length-encoding-python\">https://www.kaggle.com/rakhlin/fast-run-length-encoding-python</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Check out this kernel, its Run Length Encoding\nhttps://www.kaggle.com/rakhlin/fast-run-length-encoding-python",
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    },
    {
      "id": "642165",
      "postDate": "10/05/2019 16:21:17",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"/fenil9\">@fenil9</a>  The link which you shared does not clearly answer the above question.  I still have not understood what is encoded pixel. Can anyone explain here?</p>\n\n<p>Thanks in advance.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "fenil9  The link which you shared does not clearly answer the above question.  I still have not understood what is encoded pixel. Can anyone explain here?\n\nThanks in advance.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "645145",
      "postDate": "10/09/2019 21:00:29",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"/ganeshms\">@ganeshms</a> </p>\n\n<p>Try this link: <a href=\"https://medium.com/&lt;a href=\">@sumanthmeenan</a>/generating-masks-from-encoded-pixels-semantic-segmentation-18635e834ad0\"&gt;https://medium.com/<a href=\"/sumanthmeenan\">@sumanthmeenan</a>/generating-masks-from-encoded-pixels-semantic-segmentation-18635e834ad0</p>\n\n<p>Basically encoded pixel is a list of pairs of starting pixels and amount of pixels to take in consideration.</p>\n\n<p>Example:\n[1 10 2 15 3 20]</p>\n\n<p>Starting from pixel 1 take 10 pixels\nStarting from pixel 2 take 15 pixels</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "ganeshms \n\nTry this link: [https://medium.com/@sumanthmeenan/generating-masks-from-encoded-pixels-semantic-segmentation-18635e834ad0](https://medium.com/@sumanthmeenan/generating-masks-from-encoded-pixels-semantic-segmentation-18635e834ad0)\n\nBasically encoded pixel is a list of pairs of starting pixels and amount of pixels to take in consideration.\n\nExample:\n[1 10 2 15 3 20]\n\nStarting from pixel 1 take 10 pixels\nStarting from pixel 2 take 15 pixels",
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 281208,
      "author_name": "fenil9",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "02/12/2018 07:49:12",
      "content": "<p>Check out this kernel, its Run Length Encoding\n<a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/rakhlin/fast-run-length-encoding-python\">https://www.kaggle.com/rakhlin/fast-run-length-encoding-python</a></p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 642165,
      "author_name": "ganeshms",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "10/05/2019 16:21:17",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"/fenil9\">@fenil9</a>  The link which you shared does not clearly answer the above question.  I still have not understood what is encoded pixel. Can anyone explain here?</p>\n\n<p>Thanks in advance.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 645145,
          "author_name": "serjhenrique",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "10/09/2019 21:00:29",
          "content": "<p><a href=\"/ganeshms\">@ganeshms</a> </p>\n\n<p>Try this link: <a href=\"https://medium.com/&lt;a href=\">@sumanthmeenan</a>/generating-masks-from-encoded-pixels-semantic-segmentation-18635e834ad0\"&gt;https://medium.com/<a href=\"/sumanthmeenan\">@sumanthmeenan</a>/generating-masks-from-encoded-pixels-semantic-segmentation-18635e834ad0</p>\n\n<p>Basically encoded pixel is a list of pairs of starting pixels and amount of pixels to take in consideration.</p>\n\n<p>Example:\n[1 10 2 15 3 20]</p>\n\n<p>Starting from pixel 1 take 10 pixels\nStarting from pixel 2 take 15 pixels</p>",
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    "280700": "In stage_1_train_labels.csv, what does encoded pixels/ represent? Do they represent a boundary for the mask? Can you also tell the way to visualize them?",
    "281208": "Check out this kernel, its Run Length Encoding\nhttps://www.kaggle.com/rakhlin/fast-run-length-encoding-python",
    "642165": "fenil9  The link which you shared does not clearly answer the above question.  I still have not understood what is encoded pixel. Can anyone explain here?\n\nThanks in advance.",
    "645145": "ganeshms \n\nTry this link: [https://medium.com/@sumanthmeenan/generating-masks-from-encoded-pixels-semantic-segmentation-18635e834ad0](https://medium.com/@sumanthmeenan/generating-masks-from-encoded-pixels-semantic-segmentation-18635e834ad0)\n\nBasically encoded pixel is a list of pairs of starting pixels and amount of pixels to take in consideration.\n\nExample:\n[1 10 2 15 3 20]\n\nStarting from pixel 1 take 10 pixels\nStarting from pixel 2 take 15 pixels"
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