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Windows 10 brings with it a brand new browser called Microsoft Edge (though Internet Explorer is still hanging around like an awkward kid in the background). Here’s how to get started with one of its most interesting features—annotating websites.
These digital ink annotations are officially known as “web notes” and they make most sense when you’re sharing pages with other people (though you are of course free to use them however you see fit). The Make a Web Note button is clearly visible on the right of the Edge toolbar—it’s an icon showing a pen inside a box.
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You get two tools to make your mark with—a pen and a highlighter—and you can click on either of them to bring up a small dialog showing ink colors and nib sizes. The icon to the far left lets you pan around the page; to the right are options for erasing some or all of the scribblings you’ve laid down. It’s also possible to crop out particular parts of the page.
If you click Exit, all your annotations are lost and you return back to browsing mode, so you want to use the save and share icons immediately to the left—the former lets you store your edited pages in OneNote, in your bookmarks, or your reading list inside Edge, and the latter brings up apps that can share your creation (such as Mail or Facebook).
Opt to save an annotated page, and you’re left with a local HTML file that can be pulled up later on with your edits attached. As yet there’s no option to work on a page in collaboration with someone else, but no doubt Microsoft Edge will develop as time goes on (as will Windows 10).
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Is it really all that useful? It’s helpful for pointing out glitches on websites, highlighting passages and pictures you like, picking out items in a lengthy list and so on, but whether it’s necessary enough for people to jump over from Chrome or Firefox remains to be seen. As annotated pages are saved locally, it’s not all that different from taking a screenshot and editing that instead.
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An open source annotation and labeling tool for image and video assets.
VoTT is a React + Redux Web application, written in TypeScript. This project was bootstrapped with Create React App.
Features include:
- The ability to label images or video frames
- Extensible model for importing data from local or cloud storage providers
- Extensible model for exporting labeled data to local or cloud storage providers
VoTT helps facilitate an end-to-end machine learning pipeline:
Table of Contents
- VoTT (Visual Object Tagging Tool)
- Getting Started
- V1 & V2
- Where is V1
- Using VoTT
- Creating a New Project
- Keyboard Shortcuts
Getting Started
VoTT can be installed as a native application or run from source. VoTT is also available as a stand-alone Web application and can be used in any modern Web browser.
Download and install a release package for your platform (recommended)
VoTT is available for Windows, Linux and OSX. Download the appropriate platform package/installer from GitHub Releases.
v2
releases will be prefixed by 2.x
.Build and run from source
VoTT requires NodeJS (>= 10.x, Dubnium) and NPM
IMPORTANT
When running locally with
npm
, both the electron and the browser versions of the application will start. One major difference is that the electron version can access the local file system.Run as Web Application
Using a modern Web browser, VoTT can be loaded from: https://vott.z22.web.core.windows.net
As noted above, the Web version of VoTT cannot access the local file system; all assets must be imported/exported through a Cloud project.
V1 & V2
VoTT V2 is a refactor and refresh of the original Electron-based application. As the usage and demand for VoTT grew,
V2
was started as an initiative to improve and make VoTT more extensible and maintainable. In addition, V2
uses more modern development frameworks and patterns (React, Redux) and is authored in TypeScript.A number of code quality practices have been adopted, including:
- Code Linting
- Unit tests & mocks (Jest, Enzyme)
- Code coverage (CodeCov.io)
- Complexity analysis (Plato)
All
V2
efforts are on the master branchWhere is V1
V1
will be on the v1 branch. There will not be any fixes or updates.V1 releases
1.x releases can still be found under GitHub Releases.
V1 projects in V2
There is support for converting a V1 project into V2 format. Upon opening the JSON file, a window will pop up to confirm that the app should convert the project before redirecting to the editor screen. In this process, a
.vott
file will be generated in the same project directory, which may be used as the main project file going forward. We recommend backing up the V1 project file before converting the project.Using VoTT
Creating Connections
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VoTT is a 'Bring Your Own Data' (BYOD) application. In VoTT, connections are used to configure and manage source (the assets to label) and target (the location to which labels should be exported).
Connections can be set up and shared across projects. They use an extensible provider model, so new source/target providers can easily be added.
Currently, VoTT supports:
- Local File System
To create a new connection, click the
New Connections
(plug) icon, in the left hand navigation bar:Creating a New Project
Labeling workflows in VoTT revolve around projects - a collection of configurations and settings that persist.
Projects define source and target connections, and project metadata - including tags to be used when labeling source assets.
As mentioned above, all projects require a source and target connection:
- Source Connection - Where to pull assets from
- Target Connection - Where project files and exported data should be stored
Project Settings
Project settings can be modified after a project has been created, by clicking on the
Project Setting
(slider) icon in the left hand navigation bar. Project metrics, such as Visited Assets, Tagged Assets, and Average Tags Per Asset can also be viewed on this screen.Security Tokens
Some project settings can include sensitive values, such as API keys or other shared secrets. Each project will generate a security token that can be used to encrypt/decrypt sensitive project settings.
Security tokens can be found in
Application Settings
by clicking the gear icon in the lower corner of the left hand navigation bar.NOTE: Project files can be shared among multiple people. In order to share sensitive project settings, all parties must have/use the same security token.
The token name and key must match in order for sensitive values to be successfully decrypted.
Labeling an Image
When a project is created or opened, the main tag editor window opens. The tag editor consists of three main parts:
- A resizeable preview pane that contains a scrollable list of images and videos, from the source connection
- The main editor pane that allows tags to be applied to drawn regions
- The tags editor pane that allows users to modify, lock, reorder, and delete tags
Selecting an image or video on the left will load that image in the main tag editor. Regions can then be drawn on the loaded asset and a tag can be applied.
As desired, repeat this process for any additional assets.
Labeling a Video
Labeling a video is much like labeling a series of images. When a video is selected from the left, it will begin automatically playing, and there are several controls on the player, as seen here:
In addition to the normal video playback controls, there are two extra pairs of buttons.
On the left, there are the previous and next frame buttons. Clicking these will pause the video, and move to the next appropriate frame as determined by the project settings. For example, if the project settings have a frame extraction rate of 1, these buttons will cause the video to be moved back or forward 1 second, while if the frame extraction rate is 10, the video will be moved back or forward a tenth of a second.
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On the right, there are the previous and next tagged frame buttons. Clicking these will pause the video and move to the next or previous frame that has a previously tagged region on it, if a tagged frame exists.
Colored lines will also be visible along the video's timeline. These indicate the video frames that have already been visited. A yellow line denotes a frame that has been visited only, while a green line denotes a frame that has been both visited and tagged. The colored lines can be clicked for quick navigation to the indicated frame.
The timeline can also be used to manually scrub through the video to an arbitrary point, though the project settings for frame extraction rate are always obeyed. Pausing the video will move to the closest frame according to this project setting. This way, a very low frame extraction rate, such as 1 frame per second, can be set for sections of the video known to contain few taggable items, and a much higher frame extraction rate, such as 30 frames per second, to allow fine-grained control.
Tagging and drawing regions is not possible while the video is playing.
Exporting Labels
Once assets have been labeled, they can be exported into a variety of formats:
- TensorFlow (Pascal VOC and TFRecords)
- VoTT (generic JSON schema)
- Comma Separated Values (CSV)
In addition, users may choose to export
- all assets
- only visited assets
- only tagged assets
Click on the
Export
(arrow) icon in the left hand navigation. Select the appropriate export provider and which assets to export. The percentage separated into testing and training sets can be adjusted here too.Keyboard Shortcuts
VoTT allows a number of keyboard shortcuts to make it easier to keep one hand on the mouse while tagging. It allows most common shortcuts:
- Ctrl or Cmd + C - copy
- Ctrl or Cmd + X - cut
- Ctrl or Cmd + V - paste
- Ctrl or Cmd + A - select all
- Ctrl or Cmd + Z - undo
- Ctrl or Cmd + Shift + Z - redo
Tag Ordering
Hotkeys of 1 through 0 are assigned to the first ten tags. These can be reordered by using the up/down arrow icons in in the tag editor pane.
Tag Locking
A tag can be locked for repeated tagging using the lock icon at the top of the tag editor pane. Tags can also be locked by combining Ctrl or Cmd and the tag hotkey, i.e.
Ctrl+2
would lock the second tag in the list.Editor Shortcuts
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In addition, the editor page has some special shortcuts to select tagging tools:
- V - Pointer/Select
- R - Draw Rectangle
- P - Draw Polygon
- Ctrl or Cmd + S - Save Project
- Ctrl or Cmd + E - Export Project
VOTT allows you to fine tune the bounding boxes using the arrow keys in a few different ways. While a region is selected:
- Ctrl + Arrowkey - Move Region
- Ctrl + Alt + Arrowkey - Shrink Region
- Ctrl + Shift + Arrowkey - Expand Region
The slide viewer can be navigated from the keyboard as follows:
- W or ArrowUp - Previous Asset
- S or ArrowDown - Next Asset
When the video playback bar is present, it allows the following shortcuts to select frames:
- A or ArrowLeft - Previous Frame
- D or ArrowRight - Next Frame
- Q - Previous Tagged Frame
- E - Next Tagged Frame
Mouse Controls
- Two-point mode - Hold down Ctrl while creating a region
- Square mode - Hold down Shift while creating a region
- Multi-select - Hold down Shift while selecting regions
- Exclusive Tracking mode - Ctrl + N to block frame UI allowing a user to create a region on top of existing regions
Collaborators
VoTT was originally developed by the Commercial Software Engineering (CSE) group at Microsoft in Israel.
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V2 is developed by the CSE group at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington.
Contributing to VoTT
There are many ways to contribute to VoTT -- please review our contribution guidelines.
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This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information seethe Code of Conduct FAQ or contact [email protected] any additional questions or comments.