
Images can be uploaded through a local device or AWS S3 folder. Allows project management through team creation and share via an API through Python SDK to measure progress. SuperAnnotate platform provides end to end service for automating computer vision projects, starting from data engineering(generating high-quality training data) to model creation(training using neural networks). In February 2020 they released this toolkit to benefit the computer vision community. Vahan and his brother Tigran are PhD drop out students who built this web-based application after realising the lack of efficient supervised image segmentation algorithms in their research study. SuperAnnotate is an image and video annotator automation tool developed by Vahan Petrosyan. These limitations led to the development of better data annotator tools which can provide better accuracy, speed and precision in data annotations and thus today we’ll be discussing SuperAnnotate.

Another limitation is that apart from objects to be identified other objects are also to be annotated in some instances such as for self-driving cars, apart from cars there’s pedestrians, poles, signals and many more. But there are certain limitations to bounding box methodology – often objects are intruded by noise in the bounding box and thus fail to detect accurately by the detection algorithm. Most object detection algorithms(R-CNN, YOLO, Faster-RCnn, etc.) are built along with this methodology. Most image annotation tools go by bounding box methodology which is the rectangle encompassing the object and giving four coordinates(left top corner, right top corner, left down right down corner) that are used by the algorithms to locate the exact object in the image.

This is better than content-based image retrieval(CBIR) process, which is query-based and requires more time to execute. It is mainly used for image retrieval(searching through large databases for showing results of exact images for that text). Automatic Image Annotation is the new advancement in Computer Vision it will automatically provide metadata related to the images. For supervised machine learning, image annotation provides labels to objects in the image. In case of image annotations its labels, segmentation, localization, bounding boxes. Annotations are extra information attached to parts of any kind of media, for better understanding that portion.
