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SkalskiP / make-sense

Free to use online tool for labelling photos. https://makesense.ai

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Exporting annotations to Pascal VOC XML #13

Closed OlafenwaMoses closed 5 years ago

OlafenwaMoses commented 5 years ago

First, this is a very remarkable project and I am looking forward to it making significant improvement in the image annotation experience.

It will be great if support for exporting annotated data to Pascal VOC XML can be provided. See the links below for example blueprint of the format.

https://gist.github.com/Prasad9/30900b0ef1375cc7385f4d85135fdb44

https://github.com/AndrewCarterUK/pascal-voc-writer/blob/master/pascal_voc_writer/templates/annotation.xml

There is an existing non-UI tool that does that. You can take insights from it to implement the UI based annotation. See the link below for the tool.

https://github.com/AndrewCarterUK/pascal-voc-writer/blob/master/pascal_voc_writer/templates/annotation.xml

SkalskiP commented 5 years ago

Thank you very much for your kind words. I will try to make sure that the enormous potential of this project will be used. The task seems pretty simple. However, I am wondering about the values in the fields: folder, path and database. They can hardly be hardcoded, they must be received from the user?

OlafenwaMoses commented 5 years ago

The folder, path and database are meta data of the annotation.

folder: This is used to identify the folder in which an image is present on the system in which the annotation was performed. Considering your's run in-browser You can generate a value here based on the title for their project.
path: This is the full path of the image on the system. You can just specify the filename here
database: This is just a reference data. You can keep it as value unknown

SkalskiP commented 5 years ago

Then the path and the database are clear. As for the folder - at the moment the user does not define the name of the project, in this situation it is worth to define something like this?

SkalskiP commented 5 years ago

I'm gonna work on this task now.

OlafenwaMoses commented 5 years ago

Then the path and the database are clear. As for the folder - at the moment the user does not define the name of the project, in this situation it is worth to define something like this?

Since it is a meta data, you can use a default value for the folder property.

SkalskiP commented 5 years ago

I decided to put in the top navigation bar input, where you can define the name of the project. Perhaps this functionality will be useful in other situations.

SkalskiP commented 5 years ago

@OlafenwaMoses The functionality is already on the develop version. It will come with the next release. It can be tested on a test instance: https://develop.d2e9l8xwkaodsq.amplifyapp.com/

OlafenwaMoses commented 5 years ago

Great work you have done on this @SkalskiP . I just tested it and the experience is great.

OlafenwaMoses commented 5 years ago

Make sure to promote this tool via tutorials on Medium as well.

SkalskiP commented 5 years ago

I am very happy that everything works as expected. If you have any more ideas on how to improve makesense.ai, I encourage you to create issues. As I said, the functionality will be in the application with the next realase. This should be soon, but I do not have any rigid date.

As for the tutorial on the Medium, you don't have to persuade me. I haven't written in a long time and I would love to change it. I hope that I will find time in the coming days.

hadilou commented 3 years ago

Hi @SkalskiP . Thanks for the great work. I have been enjoying the tool lately :)

I want to point out that truncated and difficult attributes should be boolean i.e 0 by default not "unknown".

I had to make these modification to saved Pascal VOC labels in other to open them in tools such as labelImg