VGG Image Annotator (VIA) is an image annotation tool that can be used to define regions in an image and create textual descriptions of those regions. VIA is an open source project developed at the Visual Geometry Group and released under the BSD-2 clause license. This work is supported by EPSRC programme grant Seebibyte: Visual Search for the Era of Big Data (EP/M013774/1). Visit the VGG software page for more details.

• based solely on HTML, CSS and Javascript (no external javascript libraries)
• can be used off-line (full application in a single html file of size < 400KB)
• requires nothing more than a modern web browser (tested on Firefox, Chrome and Safari)
• supported region shapes: rectangle, circle, ellipse, polygon and point
• import/export of region data in csv and json file format
• quick update of annotations using on-image annotation editor

See http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/software/via/

• User Guide : this can be accessed from the menubar "Help -> Getting Started"
• VIA Software page @ VGG
• VIA Wikipedia page

Please send all pull requests to develop branch. All contributions made to VIA code repository will be licensed under the BSD-2 clause license.

For development, via.js contains the Javascript source code and index.html contains the HTML and CSS. The shell script scripts/pack_via.sh packs the VIA application into a single and standalone application file via.html containing the Javascript, HTML and CSS.

• Source code: VGG Image Annotator @ develop branch
• Source code documentation
• Unit Tests : see files inside tests/ folder

The Quality Assessment page describes the guidelines to ensure the quality of VIA application, source code and its documentation.

Software bug reports and feature requests should be submitted here (requires gitlab account). For all other queries, please contact Abhishek Dutta.

VIA is an open source project released under the BSD-2 clause license.

Abhishek Dutta
Aug. 31, 2016