Annotation Tools

8. Annotation Tools#

9. The Tool Matters Less than the Pipeline#

  • work smarter, not harder. Use a tool or tools that help automate tasks

10. Tips and Tricks | When Picking a Tool:#

  • Look at Features

  • Ease of Use

  • Ease of Installation

  • Ease of getting your annotations out in a common format

  • Look for Open source

  • Look to see if the Tool is supported/still being developed

  • Look at the Users/Community

  • Look for Documentation

10.1. Lots of Image and Video Annotation Tools Out There#

Name

Image

Video

Free

Open Source

AI Assisted Annotation

Notes

Label Studio

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Multi-type data labeling and annotation tool with standardized output format.

CVAT

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

Open-source tool for video and image annotation.

VIAME

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

See documentation.

Tator

✅

✅

✅

✅

See Tutorials and Source Code.

TagLab

✅

❌

✅

✅

✅

10.2. And more! - MichaelAkridge-NOAA/awesome-ocean-ai#

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