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VGG Image Annotator

version 1.0.3

VGG Image Annotator (VIA) is an open source project developed at the Visual Geometry Group and released under the BSD-2 clause license. With this standalone application, you can define regions in an image and create a textual description of those regions. Such image regions and descriptions are useful for supervised training of learning algorithms.

Features:

• based solely on HTML, CSS and Javascript (no external javascript libraries)
• can be used off-line (full application in a single html file of size < 200KB)
• requires nothing more than a modern web browser
• supported region shapes: rectangle, circle, ellipse, polygon and point
• import/export of region data in csv and json file format

For more details, visit http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/software/via/.

 

Copyright © 2016-2017, Abhishek Dutta (Visual Geometry Group, Oxford University)

Getting Started

1. Click [Image > Load or Add Images] in the top menu bar to load a set of images that you wish to annotate.
2. Press n (or p) to navigate through the loaded images. You can also use the ← and → icons in the top panel toolbar for navigation.
3. Click Region Attributes in the left panel to reveal a panel in the bottom. Click [Add New] tp add a new attribute. For example:

                     object_name
                     object_color
                   

   You can add more region attributes according to you needs.
4. In the Region Shape section in the left panel, click the rectangular shape
5. On the image area, keep pressing the right click button as you drag the mouse cursor. This will draw a rectangular region on the image.
6. This newly created region is automatically selected. Now you can enter the attribute value for this region in the bottom panel. For example:

                     object_name = dog
                     object_color = white
                   

   You can annotate multiple regions in this image or other images and assign a value to each pre-defined attribute.
7. To download the annotated region data, click [Annotation > Save as CSV] in the top menu bar. This will download a text file containing region shape and attribute data.
8. Next time, you can start from the point your left by first loading the images and then importing the CSV file (downloaded in step 7) by clicking [Annotation > Import].

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