List of manual image annotation tools

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

Computer Vision Annotation Tool (CVAT) is

a free, 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,
Computer
automatic annotation using TensorFlow OD JavaScript, HTML,
Vision MIT [1][2][3]
API and deep learning models in Intel CSS, Python,
Annotation License
OpenVINO IR format, shortcuts for most of Django
Tool (CVAT)
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.

Online annotation tool to build image Perl, JavaScript, MIT

LabelMe
databases for computer vision research. HTML, CSS[4] License

Desktop open source interactive software

system for facilitating the precise
TagLab
annotation of benthic species in orthophoto Python [5] GPL [6] [7]

of the bottom of the sea.

VoTT
(Visual Free and open source electron app for TypeScript/Electron
MIT [8][9][10][11][12][13]
Object image annotation and labeling developed by (Windows, Linux,
License
Tagging Microsoft. macOS)
Tool)

References
1. "Intel open-sources CVAT, a toolkit for data labeling" (https://venturebeat.com/2019/03/05/int
el-open-sources-cvat-a-toolkit-for-data-labeling/). VentureBeat. 2019-03-05. Retrieved
2019-03-09.
2. "Computer Vision Annotation Tool: A Universal Approach to Data Annotation" (https://softwar
e.intel.com/en-us/articles/computer-vision-annotation-tool-a-universal-approach-to-data-ann
otation). software.intel.com. 2019-03-01. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
3. "Computer Vision Annotation Tool (CVAT) source code on github" (https://github.com/openc
v/cvat). GitHub. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
4. "LabelMe Source" (https://github.com/CSAILVision/LabelMeAnnotationTool). GitHub.
Retrieved 26 January 2017.
5. {"TagLab Source" (https://github.com/cnr-isti-vclab/TagLab). GitHub. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
 6. 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 (https://doi.org/10.1002%
2Frob.22049). S2CID 244648241 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:244648241).
7. 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 (https://doi.org/10.25923%2F7kgv-b
a52).
8. Tung, Liam. "Free AI developer app: IBM's new tool can label objects in videos for you" (http
s://www.zdnet.com/article/free-ai-developer-app-ibms-new-tool-can-label-objects-in-videos-f
or-you/). ZDNet.
9. Bornstein, Aaron (Ari) (February 4, 2019). "Using Object Detection for Complex Image
Classification Scenarios Part 4" (https://towardsdatascience.com/using-object-detection-for-
complex-image-classification-scenarios-part-4-3e5da160d272). Medium.
10. Solawetz, Jacob (July 27, 2020). "Getting Started with VoTT Annotation Tool for Computer
Vision" (https://blog.roboflow.com/vott/). Roboflow Blog.
11. "Best Open Source Annotation Tools for Computer Vision" (https://www.sicara.ai/blog/2019-
09-01-top-five-open-source-annotation-tools-computer-vision). www.sicara.ai.
12. "Beyond Sentiment Analysis: Object Detection with ML.NET" (https://www.arafattehsin.com/
beyond-sentiment-analysis-object-detection-with-ml-net/). September 20, 2020.
13. "GitHub - microsoft/VoTT: Visual Object Tagging Tool: An electron app for building end to
end Object Detection Models from Images and Videos" (https://github.com/microsoft/VoTT).
November 15, 2020 – via GitHub.

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