Manual image annotation is the process of manually defining regions in an image and creating a textual description of those regions. Such annotations can for instance be used to train machine learning algorithms for computer vision applications.
This is a list of computer software which can be used for manual annotation of images.
Software | Description | Platform | License | References |
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Computer Vision Annotation Tool (CVAT) | Computer Vision Annotation Tool (CVAT) is an open source, web-based annotation tool which helps to label video and images for computer vision algorithms. CVAT has many powerful features: interpolation of bounding boxes between key frames, automatic annotation using TensorFlow OD API and deep learning models in Intel OpenVINO IR format, shortcuts for most of critical actions, dashboard with a list of annotation tasks, LDAP and basic authorizations, etc. It was created for and used by a professional data annotation team. UX and UI were optimized especially for computer vision annotation tasks. | JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Python, Django | MIT License | |
LabelMe | Online annotation tool to build image databases for computer vision research. | Perl, JavaScript, HTML, CSS | MIT License | |
TagLab | Desktop open source interactive software system for facilitating the precise annotation of benthic species in orthophoto of the bottom of the sea. | Python | GPL | |
VoTT (Visual Object Tagging Tool) | Free and open source electron app for image annotation and labeling developed by Microsoft. | TypeScript/Electron (Windows, Linux, macOS) | MIT License |
References
- "Intel open-sources CVAT, a toolkit for data labeling". VentureBeat. 2019-03-05. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
- "Computer Vision Annotation Tool: A Universal Approach to Data Annotation". software.intel.com. 2019-03-01. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
- "Computer Vision Annotation Tool (CVAT) source code on github". GitHub. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
- "LabelMe Source". GitHub. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
- "TagLab Source". GitHub. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
- Pavoni, Gaia; Corsini, Massimiliano; Ponchio, Federico; Muntoni, Alessandro; Edwards, Clinton; Pedersen, Nicole; Sandin, Stuart; Cignoni, Paolo (2022). "TagLab: AI-assisted annotation for the fast and accurate semantic segmentation of coral reef orthoimages". Journal of Field Robotics. 39 (3): 246–262. doi:10.1002/rob.22049. S2CID 244648241.
- Costa, Bryan; Sweeney, Edward; Mendez, Arnold (October 2022). "Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Annotate Marine Benthic Species and Habitats". Noaa Technical Memorandum Nos Nccos. 306. doi:10.25923/7kgv-ba52.
- Tung, Liam. "Free AI developer app: IBM's new tool can label objects in videos for you". ZDNet.
- Solawetz, Jacob (July 27, 2020). "Getting Started with VoTT Annotation Tool for Computer Vision". Roboflow Blog.
- "Best Open Source Annotation Tools for Computer Vision". www.sicara.ai.
- "Beyond Sentiment Analysis: Object Detection with ML.NET". September 20, 2020.
- "GitHub - microsoft/VoTT: Visual Object Tagging Tool: An electron app for building end to end Object Detection Models from Images and Videos". November 15, 2020 – via GitHub.