Release Notes
Here we'll keep a high level log of the different features and improvements that are added over time. If you have an idea for something you'd like to see in the platform, please contact support@innotescus.io
January 14, 2022
Our latest release includes...
- Video metadata; users can now configure and populate metadata for videos.
- Export filters; use a range of standard filters, or your own metadata to selectively export your work!
- Task assignments; choose which members of a project can view and work on certain tasks.
- Dataset priority; prioritize datasets within a task to control which datasets are annotated first.
- Dive thumbnails; view up to 1000 annotation crops and image thumbnails in dive to get a better picture of your data!
- The ability to filter on empty metadata properties in the advanced filter
December 17, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- Easily view and reassign work from the task table of a project.
- Use the context menu to group multiple instances into one on the canvas in an instance segmentation task.
- New options for the advanced filter, including the annotation state, review state, and absence of metadata fields.
December 10, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- Class hierarchies! Create, annotate and export with hierarchical relationships between classes.
- The ability to have multiple review processes for a single task
December 3, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- CVAT annotation imports; users can now import annotations from the popular open source tool.
- Access to the API via the command line interface
- Design enhancements to the Admin Page
- Changes to the default 'annotate' button behavior that prioritize finishing one dataset before starting another.
November 19, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- Hotkeys for metadata entry! Tab through objects in the canvas and use the hotkeys to efficiently populate metadata fields.
- Enhanced usability of the image viewer; a tooltip now shows the class of each object, and the annotation list updates to highlight the selected object.
- Improvements to the advanced filter, which, at the task level, now includes annotation metadata!
- Design updates including new details panels in the right sidebar, a new classes tab, and an updated task level dataset details page.
November 12, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- The ability to place and export annotations with more than 255 objects or instances in a segmentation mask.
- The ability to tab through items in the canvas
- Usability improvements to dive charts
- Export formats now visible in the exports table
November 5, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- Advanced filtering capabilities on the dataset details page within a given task
- Improved tokenized class search throughout the platform
- Design improvements on the video annotation canvas
- The ability to revoke and reassign work being reviewed
- The ability to edit reviewers and review ratio after review creation
October 29, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- Automatic metadata support for KITTI imports
- Video annotation history now available in the video viewer
- API updates including support for presigned URL data imports and pip installation
October 22, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- In-app guides through each page of a project or task, available using the 'launch guide' entry in the help menu for each project, task, and dataset details page
- Annotation imports are now compatible with more open source and proprietary formats
October 15, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- An option to automatically configure metadata fields that are compatible with the KITTI format
- 'Dataset' and 'Annotator' options now available for Dive Task Analytics
- Annotation imports are now compatible with other platforms' proprietary export formats
- New designs on the right hand panel of the Projects, My Work, and Admin pages showing account information
October 8, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- New designs, including new breadcrumbs at the top of every project, task, and dataset details page, as well as a refreshed dataset details page!
- New metrics! Hue, lightness, brightness, and saturation are now available dataset metrics for you to access in Dive analytics.
- KITTI is now supported as an import format
- YOLO Darknet and YOLO Keras are now supported export formats
October 1, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- The Review feature! Setup a review and allow project members to accept, reject, and correct annotations to improve annotation quality
- A new image annotation canvas layout; the class selector is always accessible, and a the tool description, options, and workflow buttons have new homes
- Per-instance activity charts and .csv exports to view project member activity on a more granular basis
- Exports now available in the KITTI format
- Image annotation imports, with and without metadata, available in the Innotescus .json format
September 24, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- An option to split exports into any number of subsets to assist dataset partitioning
- Saving image annotations during editing is now available
- The ability to delete unused classes from a task
September 17, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- Options to change all instances of a class at once
- Exposed numeric IDs for each class, which are applied to exports
- A new option in task setting to upload a PDF in the instructions tab, accessible from the info panel on the canvas
- A modified coco format which accommodates image and annotation metadata
September 10, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- Task-specific image metadata now accessible in dive analytics!
- The ability to copy and paste bounding box annotations in the canvas from the context menu.
- An option to copy metadata definitions from one task to another
September 3, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- Dive analytics - including custom metadata - now available for tasks!
- More comprehensive annotation set history now available from the image viewer
- The ability to unlock images that are being edited, not just annotated, by another project member
August 27, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- The ability to configure and enter custom metadata; check out tutorials on both!
- The Innotescus .json format, which allows users to export their metadata in an accessible .json format.
August 20, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- Create custom visualizations of your data with dive analytics!
August 13, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- Improved experience when inviting a new member to an organization
- Improvements to pre-annotation for videos
August 6, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- A new Annotator Interface, visible to Supervisors as the My Work page to streamline work
July 30, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- A new tutorial video walking through organization and project level membership
- Updated designs for the video viewer
July 23, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- Improved date and time displays on activity analytics charts
- Submission information now available in the image viewer's history panel
- A new tutorial video walking through the annotator interface
July 16, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- Volume control on the annotation timeline in the video annotation canvas
- Updates to the image viewer to show the full history of an annotation set
July 9, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- The ability for supervisors to zoom and pan over images and videos in the media viewer
- A new tutorial video covering inspecting and editing existing annotations from the media viewer
June 25, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- A billing tab for organization owners to manage their payment and subscription information.
- UI/UX enhancements to the video classification, dataset and task creation processes.
June 18, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- Bug fixes, including a common networking error
- Behind the scenes improvements in preparation for next week's launch!
June 11, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- Simplified member roles - now all permissions are set at the organization level.
- A new video tutorial library to help users get up to speed in minutes!
June 4, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- The live API! View the documentation and contact support@innotescus.io to get access.
May 28, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- A new interface for viewing annotator activity
- The API Beta! Contact support@innotescus.io for more information.
May 21, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- The ability to import data from a .csv or .txt file containing a list of URLs
- A new export structure to organize and clarify exports
- The ability to export annotator activity metrics
May 14, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- Import annotations via .csv files, in addition to the Coco (.json) format and bitmasks (.png)
- Break multi-object instances into multiple individual instances from the context menu
May 7, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- Pre-annotation! Now supervisors can import pre-annotations to images to save annotators time and improve their efficiency
- Multi-select functionality from the canvas - annotators can now select multiple annotations at once to move, change class, or delete using the context menu
- Rotated Bounding Boxes; once enabled from an object detection task's settings tab, annotators can rotate bounding boxes from the image annotation canvas
- Robust handling of many (20,000+) classes throughout the platform, and increased limit of 256 characters on class name length
April 30, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- The ability to view and edit recent submissions directly from the canvas
- Automated Canvas Walkthrough guides accessible from the help menu
April 23, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- An updated Image Annotation Canvas! We've migrated the panel design from the Video Annotation Canvas to Image Annotation.
- Class imports from a .csv file during task creation
- The ability to edit both consensus annotations as well as individual intermediate annotation sets
April 16, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- Significant performance enhancements to the image annotation canvas
- Updated interfaces for deleting items, assigning tasks, and removing datasets from tasks
- The introduction of the task settings tab. Stay tuned for exciting new features to be added here!
April 9, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- A guided walkthrough of the Innotescus Demo Project - now users can learn more about project elements and structure without leaving the main platform!
- A new export structure for mask annotations on video; mask exports now include video frames as .png files which correspond to each exported mask file
- New behavior for annotating unassigned objects
- The addition of the help menu to the Image Annotation Canvas
April 2, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- Bounding Box Interpolation on Video Annotations: now users can linearly interpolate between two bounding boxes to annotate every frame in between!
- Improvements to the Assisted Annotation editing process
- Bulk deletion of items inside a dataset
March 26, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- Greater visibility into past and current import jobs
- More hotkeys for video control on the video annotation canvas
- Improvements to the video annotation import process
- Edit abilities from the user profile
March 19, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- Improved annotation imports. Annotation imports now support video, and users can import annotations to a new or existing task, with the option to overwrite any annotations in an existing task.
- The ability for users to stop an in progress job.
- The removal of the notifications icon, and the addition of a 'notifications' entry in the profile submenu.
- Greater visibility into local uploads; users can now see the amount of data uploaded as well as the number of files processed.
March 12, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- Performance enhancements to the Assisted Annotation tools
- User interface improvements to the video annotation canvas
- Enhanced video control options from the video annotation timeline
- Speed improvement to annotation submissions and annotation imports
March 5, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- More accepted video formats! Innotescus now accepts videos as .mp4, .webm, .flv, .mov, .wmv, .avi, and .ogg files
- An option to export the underlying dataset analytics values as a .csv file
- The ability to automatically finish a path tool or freeform assisted annotation boundary with a double click
- A member analytics view which shows supervisors cumulative member contributions, in addition to the existing time history
- The ability to edit video annotations from the video viewer
- The ability to annotate a specific dataset item right from the dataset details page
February 26, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- Direct exports from the datasets and tasks tabs of the project details page, or from the datasets tab of the task details page
- A 'Last Modified' column on task and dataset tables, which captures changes to annotations, datasets and task and dataset metadata
- A more intuitive sorting algorithm that respects numbered sequence values in names
- Continuing improvements to the video annotation canvas
February 19, 2021
Our latest release includes...
- The ability to add classes to a task directly from the classes tab of the task details page
- An 'overwrite' option on the path, brush, and eraser tools, which allows users to overwrite existing masks with the selected class, or erase all classes at once
- Continuing improvements to the video annotation canvas