v0.4.0

Added

• OpenVINO auto annotation. It is possible to upload a custom DL model and annotate images automatically.
• Ability to rotate images/frames in the client part (Ctrl+R, Shift+Ctrl+R shortcuts) (#305)
• ReID application for automatic bounding boxes merging (#299)
• Keyboard shortcuts to switch next/previous default shape type (box, polygon etc) [Alt + <, Alt + >] (#316)
• Converter for VOC now supports interpolation tracks
• REST API (/api/v1/*, /api/docs)
• Semi-automatic semantic segmentation with the Deep Extreme Cut work
• Converter to tfrecords format to cvat/utils (#368)
• Support for 16bit grayscale images for annotation (#342)

Changed

• Python Django server design and DB layout
• Propagation input moved from settings to the bottom player panel
• Additional events like "Debug Info" or "Fit Image" for analytics
• LFS is optional for git annotation storages (#314)

Deprecated

• "Flip images" flag in the create task dialog. Rotation functionality in client part added instead.

v0.3.0

Added

• Ability to copy Object URL and Frame URL via object context menu and player context menu respectively.
• Ability to change opacity for selected shape with help "Selected Fill Opacity" slider.
• Ability to remove polyshapes points by double click.
• Ability to draw/change polyshapes (except for points) by slip method. Just press ENTER and moving a cursor.
• Ability to switch lock/hide properties via label UI element (in right menu) for all objects with same label.
• Shortcuts for outside/keyframe properties
• Support of Intel OpenVINO for accelerated model inference
• Tensorflow annotation now works without CUDA. It can use CPU only. OpenVINO and CUDA are supported optionally.
• Incremental saving of annotations.
• Tutorial for using polygons (screencast)
• Silk profiler to improve development process
• Admin panel can be used to edit labels and attributes for annotation tasks
• Analytics component to manage a data annotation team, monitor exceptions, collect client and server logs
• Changeable job and task statuses (annotation, validation, completed). A job status can be changed manually, a task status is computed automatically based on job statuses (#153)
• Backlink to a task from its job annotation view (#156)
• Buttons lock/hide for labels. They work for all objects with the same label on a current frame (#116)

Changed

• Polyshape editing method has been improved. You can redraw part of shape instead of points cloning.
• Unified shortcut (Esc) for close any mode instead of different shortcuts (Alt+N, Alt+G, Alt+M etc.).
• Dump file contains information about data source (e.g. video name, archive name, ...)
• Update requests library due to https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-18074
• Per task/job permissions to create/access/change/delete tasks and annotations
• Documentation was improved
• Timeout for creating tasks was increased (from 1h to 4h) (#136)
• Drawing has become more convenience. Now it is possible to draw outside an image. Shapes will be automatically truncated after drawing process (#202)

Fixed

• Performance bottleneck has been fixed during you create new objects (draw, copy, merge etc).
• Label UI elements aren't updated after changelabel.
• Attribute annotation mode can use invalid shape position after resize or move shapes.
• Labels order is preserved now (#242)
• Uploading large XML files (#123)
• Django vulnerability (#121)
• Grammatical cleanup of README.md (#107)
• Dashboard loading has been accelerated (#156)
• Text drawing outside of a frame in some cases (#202)