Computer Vision Annotation Tool (CVAT) is a free, open source,

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image and video annotation tool which is used for labeling data for

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algorithms. Originally developed by

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, CVAT is designed for use by a professional data annotation team, with a

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optimized for computer vision annotation tasks. CVAT supports the primary tasks of

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object detection Object detection is a computer technology related to computer vision and image processing that deals with detecting instances of semantic objects of a certain class (such as humans, buildings, or cars) in digital images and videos. Well-researched ...

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, and

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. CVAT allows users to annotate data for each of these cases. CVAT has many powerful features, including

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of shapes between key frames, semi-automatic annotation using

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models, shortcuts for most critical actions, a dashboard with a list of annotation projects and tasks,

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and

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, etc. CVAT is written mainly in

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, and Django. It is distributed under the

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, and its source code is available on

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. CVAT team hosts an online version of the data annotation platform a
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as

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Getting Started with CVAT - Annotation for Computer Vision

Image annotation tools on GitHub

Annotation tools for building datasets

Best Open Source Annotation Tools for Computer Vision

Four Important Computer Vision Annotation Tools you Need to Know in 2020

Image Annotation Tools: Which One to Pick in 2020?
{{Intel Datasets in computer vision Object recognition and categorization

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