Annotation Tool

Annotation Tool is a Matlab-based image annotation tool.

Use Annotation Tool to label objects in your images. Annotated objects are represented as image region boundaries assigned with object category labels. Image annotation is saved in the form of a XML file. See documentation below for details.

History

Sep 24, 2009. The software is no longer supported.
Nov 21, 2008. Version 2.40 released.
Dec 13, 2007. Version 2.36 released.
Nov 16, 2007. Version 2.35 released.
Sep 26, 2007. Version 2.31 released.
Sep 15, 2007. Version 2.3 released.
Jul 06, 2007. Version 2.0 released. Free download.
Mar 05, 2007. Version 1.71 released.
Feb 13, 2007. Version 1.7 released.
Aug 22, 2006. Version 1.0 released. Annotated image dataset example available for download.
Spring, 2006. Alfa version.

Downloads

Version 2.40 [ZIP], see the Change Log.
Annotated image dataset example [ZIP]. It may be useful when setting up the tool.

Version 2.36 [ZIP], [2007 Dec 13].
Version 2.35 [ZIP], [2007 Nov 16].
Version 2.31 [ZIP], [2007 Sep 26].
Version 2.3 [ZIP], [2007 Sep 15].
Version 2.0 [ZIP], [2007 Jul 06].
Version 1.71 [ZIP], [2007 Mar 05].
Version 1.7 [ZIP], [2007 Feb 13].
Version 1.0 [ZIP], [2006 Aug 22].

The code has been tested on several Windows and Linux machines and different versions of the Matlab package. Suggestions and bug-reports are welcome.

Condition of Use

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it. It is distributed in the hope that it will be useful. If you use this software for research purposes, please acknowledge its use in resulting publication. We would appreciate if you cite:

@techreport{annotation-tool-2007,
            author = "Kor{\v c}, F. and Schneider, D.",
            title = "Annotation Tool",
            number = "TR-IGG-P-2007-01",
            month = "June",
            year = "2007",
            institute = "Dept. of Photogrammetry, University of Bonn",
            url = "http://www.ipb.uni-bonn.de/html_pages_software/annotation-tool/publ/Korc-TR-IGG-P-2007-01.pdf",
}

Documentation

Helps to setup the tool and illustrates its functionality.

Filip Korč, David Schneider. Annotation Tool. Technical report TR-IGG-P-2007-01, University of Bonn, Department of Photogrammetry, 2007 [PDF].

Authors

Filip Korč
David Schneider

Acknowledgement

Developement of the Alfa version by Hanns-F. Schuster is acknowledged. Image rectification function courtesy of Wolfgang Förstner. Automated aggregate annotation written by Martin Drauschke. Numerous user comments and suggestions are further acknowledged.

Support

This work was supported by the EU Project eTRIMS - eTraining for Interpreting Images of Man-Made Scenes.

Last modified: Feb 12, 2009

Maintained by: Filip Korč
accesses since Mar 3, 2007.