Image Annotation Methods
Our annotators are proficient across all major image annotation techniques:
Bounding Box Annotation
Rectangular boxes drawn around objects of interest. The most common annotation method for object detection tasks. Used in autonomous driving (vehicles, pedestrians), retail (product detection), security (person/object identification), and manufacturing (defect detection).
Polygon Annotation
Precise outlines traced around irregularly shaped objects. Delivers higher accuracy than bounding boxes for objects with non-rectangular shapes. Common in medical imaging, agriculture (crop and weed identification), and geospatial analysis.
Semantic Segmentation
Pixel-level classification where every pixel in an image is assigned to a category. Essential for scene understanding applications including autonomous navigation, medical image analysis, and land use classification from satellite imagery.
Instance Segmentation
Combining pixel-level accuracy with individual object distinction. Each object instance is separately identified and segmented, enabling models to distinguish between overlapping objects of the same class. Used in robotics, warehouse automation, and advanced manufacturing.
Keypoint Annotation
Placing specific landmark points on objects — facial features, body joints, hand positions, or structural features. Critical for pose estimation, gesture recognition, facial analysis, and motion tracking applications.
Image Classification
Assigning category labels to entire images. Used for content moderation, product categorization, quality inspection, and scene classification.
Industries We Serve
Our image annotation teams support clients across diverse sectors:
- Autonomous vehicles — Vehicles, pedestrians, lane markings, traffic signs, road surfaces
- Medical and healthcare — X-rays, MRIs, CT scans, pathology slides, retinal images
- Agriculture — Crop health, pest identification, yield estimation from drone imagery
- Retail and e-commerce — Product recognition, shelf analytics, visual search training
- Manufacturing — Defect detection, quality inspection, assembly verification
- Geospatial — Land use classification, building detection, infrastructure mapping
- Security and surveillance — Person detection, vehicle tracking, anomaly identification
Quality Assurance
Image annotation quality directly affects model performance. Our QA process includes:
- Annotator testing — All annotators pass qualification tests before working on production data
- Multi-level review — Annotations reviewed by senior annotators and QA leads
- Inter-annotator agreement — Consistency measured across annotators on the same data
- Automated checks — Tool-based validation for annotation format compliance and basic error detection
- Client feedback integration — Your feedback on sample reviews is incorporated into ongoing training
We work with your preferred annotation platform, including Labelbox, CVAT, V7, Supervisely, Label Studio, Scale AI, and custom tools.