articleOct 15, 2019GREEN OA

The VIA Annotation Software for Images, Audio and Video

ADAbhishek DuttaAZAndrew Zisserman

University of Oxford

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Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a simple and standalone manual annotation tool for images, audio and video: the VGG Image Annotator (VIA). This is a light weight, standalone and offline software package that does not require any installation or setup and runs solely in a web browser. The VIA software allows human annotators to define and describe spatial regions in images or video frames, and temporal segments in audio or video. These manual annotations can be exported to plain text data formats such as JSON and CSV and therefore are amenable to further processing by other software tools. VIA also supports collaborative annotation of a large dataset by a group of human annotators. The BSD open source license of…

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  • Computer science
  • JSON
  • Annotation
  • Software
  • MIT License
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Multimedia
  • Computer vision
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