Video Image Annotation Tool (VIA) goes Open Source!

CERTH-ITI recently released its VIA annotation tool as open source under the GPL license, you can check it out on SourceForge : http://sourceforge.net/projects/via-tool/

The source code is available at the project's SVN repository page on SouceForge: https://sourceforge.net/scm/?type=svn&group_id=303977

VIA

Submitted by webmaster on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 15:28.

Welcome to the home page of the Video Image Annotation tool (VIA).

Video Image Annotation Tool (VIA) is a windows application to manually annotate video and images. It provides a user friendly interface for the accurate and undemanding live and "frame by frame" annotation of video and still images.

The development of this tool has been supported by the Bootstrapping Ontology Evolution with Multimedia Information Extraction (BOEMIE)(FP6-027538)and aceMedia(FP6-001765) projects.

You can download the latest version, check the current issues, request a feature or fill a bug report at the project page.

Main features:

Annotation level:

    1. Image/frame
    2. Video
    3. Shot (scene)
    4. Region (bounding box: position/size per frame or image)

    Methods

    1. Live video annotation (while playback)
    2. Frame by frame annotation
    3. Still image annotation

    Annotation types

    1. Free text annotation

    Misc

    1. MPEG1,2 video support (independent from system codecs)
    2. Frame accurate video playback and navigation
    3. Project load/savein various formats (text, XML)

    Please download the latest version from the project page.

    You can contact us via the issue tracker or the contact page.
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