Best Image Annotation Tools
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What are Image Annotation Tools?
Image annotation tools are used to automatically process and label digital images using advanced techniques in machine learning, AI, and computer vision. These tools can accurately recognize important features in images, such as objects, characters, or facial expressions. This data can then be used for various purposes such as automatic image tagging and sorting. Image annotation is becoming an increasingly popular tool for organizing large databases of images and videos. Compare and read user reviews of the best Image Annotation tools currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Ango Hub
iMerit
Ango Hub is the quality-centric, versatile all-in-one data annotation platform for AI teams. Available both on the cloud and on-premise, Ango Hub allows AI teams and their data annotation workforce to annotate their data quickly and efficiently, without compromising on quality. Ango Hub is the first and only data annotation platform focused on quality. It has features enhancing the quality of your team's annotations such as centralized labeling instructions, a real-time issue system, review workflows, sample label libraries, consensus up to 30 annotators on the same asset, and more. Ango Hub is also versatile. It supports all of the data types your team might need: image, audio, text, video, and native PDF. It has close to twenty different labeling tools you can use to annotate your data, among them some which are unique to Ango Hub such as rotated bounding boxes, unlimited conditional nested questions, label relations, and table-based labeling for more complex labeling tasks. -
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Vertex AI
Google
Image Annotation in Vertex AI is a powerful tool for preparing visual data for training computer vision models. By labeling and tagging objects, features, or regions of interest in images, businesses can create more accurate and specialized models for tasks like object detection and facial recognition. Vertex AI provides automated and manual annotation tools that can handle large volumes of image data, ensuring high-quality annotations for machine learning models. New customers receive $300 in free credits, enabling them to test the platform’s image annotation capabilities. With this feature, businesses can accelerate the development of visual AI solutions, increasing the accuracy and reliability of their models.Starting Price: Free ($300 in free credits) -
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Clickworker
Clickworker
clickworker is globally the largest open crowd sourcing provider. The company has a huge number of services using a "one to many" approach where your company can use many Clickworkers to achieve the outcome you desire. Most frequently, clickworker provides customized data collection, categorization, evaluation, tagging and annotation services to create AI/ML training data for Data Scientists, and also provides SEO texts, product tags, categories and surveys for online businesses and retailers. clickworker serves most industries and applications using the skills of their 4.0M+ Clickworkers. This crowd gathers data through a wide range of micro-tasks, utilizing a sophisticated crowd-sourcing platform and fully featured mobile app.Starting Price: $0.03 one-time payment -
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SuperAnnotate
SuperAnnotate
SuperAnnotate is the world's leading platform for building the highest quality training datasets for computer vision and NLP. With advanced tooling and QA, ML and automation features, data curation, robust SDK, offline access, and integrated annotation services, we enable machine learning teams to build incredibly accurate datasets and successful ML pipelines 3-5x faster. By bringing our annotation tool and professional annotators together we've built a unified annotation environment, optimized to provide integrated software and services experience that leads to higher quality data and more efficient data pipelines. -
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Clarifai
Clarifai
Clarifai is a leading AI platform for modeling image, video, text and audio data at scale. Our platform combines computer vision, natural language processing and audio recognition as building blocks for developing better, faster and stronger AI. We help our customers create innovative solutions for visual search, content moderation, aerial surveillance, visual inspection, intelligent document analysis, and more. The platform comes with the broadest repository of pre-trained, out-of-the-box AI models built with millions of inputs and context. Our models give you a head start; extending your own custom AI models. Clarifai Community builds upon this and offers 1000s of pre-trained models and workflows from Clarifai and other leading AI builders. Users can build and share models with other community members. Founded in 2013 by Matt Zeiler, Ph.D., Clarifai has been recognized by leading analysts, IDC, Forrester and Gartner, as a leading computer vision AI platform. Visit clarifai.comStarting Price: $0 -
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Alegion
Alegion
Alegion is the data labeling solution for enterprise-grade Machine Learning. We lead the industry in streaming, high-resolution, high-density video annotation, delivering accurately-annotated, model-ready data to train and validate ML models. Alegion provides both the platform and workforce to operate with quality at scale, processing structured and unstructured data including video, image, audio, and text. Our ML powered platform speeds up task completion by as much as 70%, including classless object tracking and single click smart polygon generation. Segmentation options include Keypoint, Bounding Box, Polyline, & Polygon segmentation, for image and video. Semantic Segmentation tools deliver seamless entity boundaries with pixel perfect accuracy. NLP and NER capabilities support text and audio classification and sentiment analysis. The platform is highly configurable to support hybrid use cases. Available via SaaS (Alegion Control), Managed Platform, and Managed Labeling Services.Starting Price: $5000 -
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Keylabs
Keylabs
Keylabs.ai is an advanced image and video annotation platform designed by experts to provide high-performance data annotation, management features, and unique operations management capabilities. With a proven track record of handling large datasets efficiently and accurately, Keylabs.ai is trusted by global technology leaders. It combines innovative technology with a user-centric design to support projects of any type and scale. The platform supports various image and video annotation dataset formats, including semantic segmentation, cuboid 3D point cloud, polygons, key points, lane annotation, and bitmask. Additionally, Keylabs.ai allows seamless integration of client models to meet specific project requirements. The annotation process is enhanced with exclusive post-annotation tools like Edge Smooth and Healer, ensuring greater precision and efficiency. By simplifying image annotation, Keylabs.ai provides AI developers with a high degree of flexibility to optimize workflow.Starting Price: $1/hour -
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Keymakr
Keymakr
Keymakr specializes in providing image and video data annotation, data creation, data collection, and data validation services for AI/ML Computer Vision projects. With a strong technological foundation and expertise, Keymakr efficiently manages data across various domains. Keymakr's motto, "Human teaching for machine learning," reflects its commitment to the human-in-the-loop approach. The company maintains an in-house team of over 600 highly skilled annotators. Keymakr's goal is to deliver custom datasets that enhance the accuracy and efficiency of ML systems. Our services: - Image annotation - Video annotation - Data validation - Data creation - Data collection - Generative AI - Custom AIStarting Price: $7/hour -
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Prodigy
Explosion
Radically efficient machine teaching. An annotation tool powered by active learning. Prodigy is a scriptable annotation tool so efficient that data scientists can do the annotation themselves, enabling a new level of rapid iteration. Today’s transfer learning technologies mean you can train production-quality models with very few examples. With Prodigy you can take full advantage of modern machine learning by adopting a more agile approach to data collection. You'll move faster, be more independent and ship far more successful projects. Prodigy brings together state-of-the-art insights from machine learning and user experience. With its continuous active learning system, you're only asked to annotate examples the model does not already know the answer to. The web application is powerful, extensible and follows modern UX principles. The secret is very simple: it's designed to help you focus on one decision at a time and keep you clicking – like Tinder for data.Starting Price: $490 one-time fee -
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V7 Darwin
V7
V7 Darwin is a powerful AI-driven platform for labeling and training data that streamlines the process of annotating images, videos, and other data types. By using AI-assisted tools, V7 Darwin enables faster, more accurate labeling for a variety of use cases such as machine learning model training, object detection, and medical imaging. The platform supports multiple types of annotations, including keypoints, bounding boxes, and segmentation masks. It integrates with various workflows through APIs, SDKs, and custom integrations, making it an ideal solution for businesses seeking high-quality data for their AI projects.Starting Price: $150 -
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Diffgram Data Labeling
Diffgram
Your AI Data Platform Quality Training Data for Enterprise Data Labeling Software for Machine Learning Free on your Kubernetes Cluster Up to 3 Users. TRUSTED BY 5,000 HAPPY USERS WORLDWIDE Images, Video, Text Spatial Tools Quadratic Curves, Cuboids, Segmentation, Box, Polygons, Lines, Keypoints, Classification Tags, and More Use the exact spatial tool you need. All tools are easy to use, fully editable, and powerful ways to represent your data. All tools are available in Video. Attribute Tools More Meaning. More degrees of freedom through: Radio buttons. Multiple select. Date pickers. Sliders. Conditional logic. Directional Vectors. And more! You can capture complex knowledge and encode it into your AI. Streaming Data Automation Up to 10x Faster then manual labelingStarting Price: Free -
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Label Your Data
Label Your Data
Label Your Data stands for exceptional data annotation service. With PCI DSS (level 1) and ISO:27001 certifications, and adherence to GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA, we guarantee your data is handled securely. Our services cover Automotive, Robotics, Fintech, Healthcare, E-commerce, Manufacturing, and Insurance industries. On a mission to co-build an AI-driven economy, we offer customized solutions for both enterprise and R&D projects with 500+ annotators on board. From Computer Vision and NLP annotation to data processing, Label Your Data delivers accurate and secure results to scale your AI projects. -
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Scalabel
Scalabel
Support various types of annotations on both images and videos. A scalable open-source web annotation tool. Support simple “click and drag” actions and options to add multiple attributes. Feature functions to fit boundaries with Bezier curves and copy shared boundaries. Annotate the area that the driver is currently driving on. Annotate lane marking for vision-based vehicle localization and trajectory planing. Accurate and intuitive four-click method to encapsulate objects of interest. Predict annotations between frames using object tracking and interpolation algorithm for bounding boxes. Annotation predictions for object instances. 2D tracking features extended to 3D.Starting Price: Free -
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Mindkosh
Mindkosh AI
Mindkosh is the data platform for curating, labeling and validating datasets for your AI projects. Our industry leading data annotation platform combines collaborative features with AI-assisted annotation features to provide a comprehensive suite of tools to label any kind of data, be it Images, videos or 3D pointclouds such as those from Lidar. For images, Mindkosh offers semi-automatic segmentation, pre-labeling for bounding boxes and automatic OCR. For videos, automatic interpolation can reduce massive amounts of manual annotation. And for lidar, 1-click annotation allows you to create cuboids in just 1 click! If you are simply looking to get your data labeled, our high quality data annotation services combined with an easy to use Python SDK and web-based review platform, provide an unmatched experience.Starting Price: $30/user/month -
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Supervisely
Supervisely
The leading platform for entire computer vision lifecycle. Iterate from image annotation to accurate neural networks 10x faster. With our best-in-class data labeling tools transform your images / videos / 3d point cloud into high-quality training data. Train your models, track experiments, visualize and continuously improve model predictions, build custom solution within the single environment. Our self-hosted solution guaranties data privacy, powerful customization capabilities, and easy integration into your technology stack. A turnkey solution for Computer Vision: multi-format data annotation & management, quality control at scale and neural networks training in end-to-end platform. Inspired by professional video editing software, created by data scientists for data scientists — the most powerful video labeling tool for machine learning and more. -
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Hive Data
Hive
Create training datasets for computer vision models with our fully managed solution. We believe that data labeling is the most important factor in building effective deep learning models. We are committed to being the field's leading data labeling platform and helping companies take full advantage of AI's capabilities. Organize your media with discrete categories. Identify items of interest with one or many bounding boxes. Like bounding boxes, but with additional precision. Annotate objects with accurate width, depth, and height. Classify each pixel of an image. Mark individual points in an image. Annotate straight lines in an image. Measure, yaw, pitch, and roll of an item of interest. Annotate timestamps in video and audio content. Annotate freeform lines in an image.Starting Price: $25 per 1,000 annotations -
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Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth
Amazon Web Services
Amazon SageMaker allows you to identify raw data such as images, text files, and videos; add informative labels and generate labeled synthetic data to create high-quality training data sets for your machine learning (ML) models. SageMaker offers two options, Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus and Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth, which give you the flexibility to use an expert workforce to create and manage data labeling workflows on your behalf or manage your own data labeling workflows. data labeling. If you want the flexibility to create and manage your own personal and data labeling workflows, you can use SageMaker Ground Truth. SageMaker Ground Truth is a data labeling service that makes data labeling easy and gives you the option of using human annotators via Amazon Mechanical Turk, third-party providers, or your own private staff.Starting Price: $0.08 per month -
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Labellerr
Labellerr
Labellerr is a data annotation platform designed to expedite the preparation of high-quality labeled datasets for AI and machine learning models. It supports various data types, including images, videos, text, PDFs, and audio, catering to diverse annotation needs. The platform offers automated annotation features, such as model-assisted labeling and active learning, to accelerate the labeling process. Additionally, Labellerr provides advanced analytics and smart quality assurance tools to ensure the accuracy and reliability of annotations. For projects requiring specialized knowledge, Labellerr offers expert-in-the-loop services, including access to professionals in fields like healthcare and automotive. -
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CVAT
CVAT
Annotate better with CVAT, the industry-leading data engine for machine learning. Used and trusted by teams at any scale, for data of any scale. CVAT’s blazing-fast, intuitive user interface, was designed by working closely with real-world teams solving real-world problems. From medical to retail to autonomous vehicles, world’s most ambitious AI teams use CVAT as a part of their AI workflow every day. No matter what your input data or expected results are, CVAT is ready. It works great with images, videos, and even 3D. Bounding boxes, polygons, points, skeletons, cuboids, trajectories, and more. Annotate more efficiently with automated interactive algorithms like intelligent scissors, histogram equalization, and more. Gain actionable insights with metrics such as annotator working hours, objects per hour, and more.Starting Price: $33 per month -
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Label Studio
Label Studio
The most flexible data annotation tool. Quickly installable. Build custom UIs or use pre-built labeling templates. Configurable layouts and templates adapt to your dataset and workflow. Detect objects on images, boxes, polygons, circular, and key points supported. Partition the image into multiple segments. Use ML models to pre-label and optimize the process. Webhooks, Python SDK, and API allow you to authenticate, create projects, import tasks, manage model predictions, and more. Save time by using predictions to assist your labeling process with ML backend integration. Connect to cloud object storage and label data there directly with S3 and GCP. Prepare and manage your dataset in our Data Manager using advanced filters. Support multiple projects, use cases, and data types in one platform. Start typing in the config, and you can quickly preview the labeling interface. At the bottom of the page, you have live serialization updates of what Label Studio expects as an input. -
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Encord
Encord
Achieve peak model performance with the best data. Create & manage training data for any visual modality, debug models and boost performance, and make foundation models your own. Expert review, QA and QC workflows help you deliver higher quality datasets to your artificial intelligence teams, helping improve model performance. Connect your data and models with Encord's Python SDK and API access to create automated pipelines for continuously training ML models. Improve model accuracy by identifying errors and biases in your data, labels and models. -
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Tictag
Tictag
Your AI deserves the best data. With industry-leading 99% accuracy, take the stress out of getting your machine learning datasets on Tictag with our unique mobile data platform and Truetag quality control. Tictag's first-of-its-kind mobile data platform combines a user-friendly interface with gamified elements to produce the highest quality datasets, powered by our proprietary Truetag quality control system. This is technology-enhanced labeling at its best. Tictag efficiently collects and labels the most complex and intricate of datasets with near-100% accuracy for AI and ML models in short turnarounds. Data labeling has never been faster or easier. Do it once and do it right. Tictag's technology-augmented Truetag quality control ensures your data is exactly as you need it. Through Tictag, your data needs, in turn, help people who need another source of income, or a way to learn new skills. -
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Google Cloud Vision AI
Google
Derive insights from your images in the cloud or at the edge with AutoML Vision or use pre-trained Vision API models to detect emotion, understand text, and more. Google Cloud offers two computer vision products that use machine learning to help you understand your images with industry-leading prediction accuracy. Automate the training of your own custom machine learning models. Simply upload images and train custom image models with AutoML Vision’s easy-to-use graphical interface; optimize your models for accuracy, latency, and size; and export them to your application in the cloud, or to an array of devices at the edge. Google Cloud’s Vision API offers powerful pre-trained machine learning models through REST and RPC APIs. Assign labels to images and quickly classify them into millions of predefined categories. Detect objects and faces, read printed and handwritten text, and build valuable metadata into your image catalog. -
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Colabeler
Colabeler
Image classification, bounding box, polygon, curve, 3D localization Video trace, text classification, text entity labeling. Support custom task plugin, you can create your own label tool. Export PascalVoc XML (The same format used by ImageNet) and CoreNLP file. Supports Windows/Mac/CentOS/Ubuntu. -
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Appen
Appen
The Appen platform combines human intelligence from over one million people all over the world with cutting-edge models to create the highest-quality training data for your ML projects. Upload your data to our platform and we provide the annotations, judgments, and labels you need to create accurate ground truth for your models. High-quality data annotation is key for training any AI/ML model successfully. After all, this is how your model learns what judgments it should be making. Our platform combines human intelligence at scale with cutting-edge models to annotate all sorts of raw data, from text, to video, to images, to audio, to create the accurate ground truth needed for your models. Create and launch data annotation jobs easily through our plug and play graphical user interface, or programmatically through our API. -
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Dataloop AI
Dataloop AI
Manage unstructured data and pipelines to develop AI solutions at amazing speed. Enterprise-grade data platform for vision AI. Dataloop is a one-stop shop for building and deploying powerful computer vision pipelines data labeling, automating data ops, customizing production pipelines and weaving the human-in-the-loop for data validation. Our vision is to make machine learning-based systems accessible, affordable and scalable for all. Explore and analyze vast quantities of unstructured data from diverse sources. Rely on automated preprocessing and embeddings to identify similarities and find the data you need. Curate, version, clean, and route your data to wherever it’s needed to create exceptional AI applications. -
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Sixgill Sense
Sixgill
Every step of the machine learning and computer vision workflow is made simple and fast within one no-code platform. Sense allows anyone to build and deploy AI IoT solutions to any cloud, the edge or on-premise. Learn how Sense provides simplicity, consistency and transparency to AI/ML teams with enough power and depth for ML engineers yet easy enough to use for subject matter experts. Sense Data Annotation optimizes the success of your machine learning models with the fastest, easiest way to label video and image data for high-quality training dataset creation. The Sense platform offers one-touch labeling integration for continuous machine learning at the edge for simplified management of all your AI solutions. -
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Innotescus
Innotescus
Innotescus is a collaborative video and image annotation platform built to streamline Computer Vision development processes via seamless data handling, smart annotation tools, and intuitive collaboration features. Additionally, its data visualization tools and cross-functional collaboration features identify data bias early, improve data accuracy, and enable faster, cost-efficient deployment of high performance Artificial Intelligence. -
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Anolytics
Anolytics
Anolytics provides data annotation service for image, videos & text for machine learning and AI-based computer vision. Anolytics offers a low-cost annotation service for machine learning and artificial intelligence model developments. It is providing the precisely annotated data in the form of text, images and videos using the various annotation techniques while ensuring the accuracy and quality. It is specialized in Image Annotation, Video Annotation and Text Annotation with best accuracy. Anolytics is providing all leading types of data annotation service used as a data training in machine learning and deep learning. It offers Bounding Boxes, Semantic Segmentation, 3D Point Cloud Annotation and 3D Cuboid Annotation for fields like healthcare, autonomous driving or drone falying, retail, security surveillance and agriculture. Anolytics works with scalable solution, available at turnaround time and cost-effective pricing for clients across the globe. -
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Automaton AI
Automaton AI
With Automaton AI’s ADVIT, create, manage and develop high-quality training data and DNN models all in one place. Optimize the data automatically and prepare it for each phase of the computer vision pipeline. Automate the data labeling processes and streamline data pipelines in-house. Manage the structured and unstructured video/image/text datasets in runtime and perform automatic functions that refine your data in preparation for each step of the deep learning pipeline. Upon accurate data labeling and QA, you can train your own model. DNN training needs hyperparameter tuning like batch size, learning, rate, etc. Optimize and transfer learning on trained models to increase accuracy. Post-training, take the model to production. ADVIT also does model versioning. Model development and accuracy parameters can be tracked in run-time. Increase the model accuracy with a pre-trained DNN model for auto-labeling.