VGG Image Annotator

VGG Image Annotator (VIA) is an open source project developed at the Visual Geometry Group and released under the BSD-2 clause license. This work is supported by EPSRC programme grant Seebibyte: Visual Search for the Era of Big Data (EP/M013774/1). Visit the VGG software page for more details.

VGG Face Annotator (VFA) is a fork of VIA adapated for marking and tagging facial regions.

Features:

• based solely on HTML, CSS and Javascript (no external javascript libraries)
• can be used off-line (full application in a single html file of size < 200KB)
• requires nothing more than a modern web browser (tested on Firefox, Chrome and Safari)
• supported region shapes: rectangle, circle, ellipse, polygon and point
• import/export of region data in csv and json file format

Downloads

• VGG Image Annotator (VIA)
  • via-1.0.4.zip : includes the VIA application (< 200KB) and its demo
  • via-src-1.0.4.zip : source code and code documentation
  • via.html : online version of VIA application
  • via_demo.html : live online demo (with preloadd images and regions)
• VGG Face Annotator (VFA)
  • coming soon

Demo

• VGG Image Annotator (VIA)
  • via_demo-1.0.4.html : live demo of VIA application with preloaded image
• VGG Face Annotator (VFA)
  • coming soon (preview versions below)
  • via_face_demo_physicist.html : live demo with preloaded regions and face images of renowned Physicists
  • via_face_demo_sherlock.html : live demo with preloaded regions and face images from BBC Sherlock Series

Docs

• Getting Started : this can be accessed by pressing F1 key in the VIA application.
• VIA Software page @ VGG
• VIA Wikipedia page

Developer Resources

For development, via.js contains the Javascript source code and index.html contains the HTML and CSS. The shell script pack_via.sh packs the VIA application into a single and standalone application file via.html containing the Javascript, HTML and CSS.

• Source code
  • VGG Image Annotator @ develop branch
  • VGG Face Annotator @ face_annotator branch
• Source code documentation
• Contributing Guidelines
• Unit Tests
  • tests/via_test_fileio.js : tests for import/export of annotations
  • tests/via_test_region.js : tests for region create, move, delete operations

The Quality Assessment page describes the guidelines to ensure the quality of VIA application, source code and its documentation.

Software bug reports and feature requests should be submitted here (requires gitlab account). For all other queries, please contact Abhishek Dutta.

License

VIA is an open source project released under the BSD-2 clause license.

Author

Abhishek Dutta
Aug. 31, 2016