Image Studio

Overview

Dataloop offers an image studio that is designed for annotating or labeling images. Annotation in this context involves adding metadata or labels to specific elements within an image, such as objects, regions, or features.

Label Picker

A Label Picker is a feature within the annotation studio that allows you to pick or select labels to assign to specific objects or elements in the data being annotated. You can perform the following activities on the Label Picker section. The available labels are determined in the Recipe.

• Scroll and click a label to activate it.
• Use the search bar to easily find labels.
• Resize the label list to better fit your number of labels by clicking and dragging the separator line.
• Use the Shortcut keys to navigate between labels.

Annotation Tools

Annotation tools are designed to facilitate the process of data annotation. Data annotation involves adding metadata, labels, or tags to raw data, making it understandable for machines.

By default, the first tool in the list is selected. To activate a different tool, click on the available tools in the list.

• Selection
• Classification
• Point
• Box
• Cube
• Semantic Segmentation
• Polygon
• Polyline
• Ellipse
• Notes

Image Canvas

The Image Canvas serves as the main workspace for performing annotations. In addition to annotation tasks, you can:

• Modify Labels & Attributes by clicking on the label name.
• Set Object ID for better identification.
• Clone Annotations to duplicate existing labels.
• Delete Annotations when necessary.

Learn more about the annotation studio canvas.

Annotations Tab

The Annotations tab on the right-panel allows you to control and manage annotations involves utilizing the annotations list and attribute controls, particularly when attributes are configured in the Recipe.

Learn more about the annotations and actions available.

Item Tab

The Item tab displays information according to the type of the selected item.

Learn more about the item and actions available.

Item Info & Controls (Top-Panel)

Item Info & Controls are available depends on the type of annotation studio. For the detailed information, refer to the following articles.

• Undo-Redo
• Item description
• Item info
• Keyboard shortcuts
• PDF Viewer (Optional)
• Adjustments
• Settings
• Copy Annotations from the Previous Item

Keyboard shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts are also accessible through the top panel of each Annotation Studio, with each studio featuring both general and studio-specific keyboard shortcuts.

The available shortcut keys for the Image annotation studio are listed below:

Item's View Controls (Bottom-Panel)

The controls on the bottom-side panel display based on the annotation contexts and work controls.

Workflow Context

Assignment controls, including moving between items, displaying the item gallery, and the status buttons (Complete / Discard). It displays only while working on an annotation or QA task.

1. Browse between the assignment items using the Left and Right arrows
2. Open the Thumbnails' gallery viewer, and click a thumbnail to open that item
3. Save button - Clicking the button when it is enabled triggers saving changes to the Dataloop platform, before the auto-saving feature takes care of that.
4. Status buttons - Complete and Discard.

View Controls

From left to right, work controls at the bottom panel deliver the following functionalities:

1. Zoom control - Small steps using (+) and (-) buttons.
2. Fit to screen.
3. Opacity: Adjust the opacity values as needed.
4. Preview Attributes: Enable/disable the attribute details visibility over the item, next to each annotation.