Annotation QuickStart

Single Frame Detections - creating multiple detections on a single image frame quickly Next to the +Track button click the Settings Icon to open the Creation Settings

Track Annotations - How to quickly create track annotations for a video or image sequence

• Interpolation Mode - fastest and easiest way to generate track annotations
• Advance Frame - This mode keeps you editing the same track while automatically advancing the frame each time a detection is drawn. In most cases the interpolation mode will be preferred.

Important Keyboard Shortcuts

Single Frame Detections

1. From the dropdown choose “Detection” mode.
2. Choose a type from the dropdown or type a name for all of your detections.
3. Turn on continuous mode if you would like to keep dragging the mouse to create detections.
4. Create your first detection by clicking and dragging to generate a rectangle.
5. If you are in continuous mode just click and drag again to create the next detection
6. Otherwise edit the detection and then hit the “N” key on the keyboard or click on detection to create another detection.

Track Annotations

Interpolation-Mode

1. Next to the Track+ button click the Settings Icon to open the Creation Settings
2. From the dropdown make sure that “Track” mode is selected.
3. Also ensure that interpolation is turned on.
4. Either click “Track+” or hit “N” on the keyboard to create the initial track.
5. You can now advance through frames and an outline of the previous annotation will remain. You can advance either by using Left Arrow/Right Arrow or clicking on the timeline to a specific position.
6. To set another frame you only need to move or resize the transparent annotation.
7. There are controls on for the currently selected track to add/remove keyframes. The “Star” icon will allow you to add and remove keyframes. The interpolate icon will turn on/off interpolation for the current region you are in.
8. During editing there is a view within the event viewer which allows you to see where interpolation occurs and where the keyframes are located.

Advance Frame

1. Next to the Track+ button click the Settings Icon to open the Creation Settings
2. From the dropdown make sure that “Track” mode is selected.
3. Turn off interpolation and turn on "AdvanceFrame"
4. Now each time an individual detection is drawn the frame will automatically advance to the next frame.

Important Keyboard/Mouse Shortcuts

control	description
Left Click	select track/detection
Right Click	toggle edit mode
Scroll Wheel	zoom
Mouse Drag	pan
shift + drag	select area to zoom
Left Arrow or d	previous frame
Right Arrow or f	next frame
Up Arrow	select previous track in list
Down Arrow	select next track in list
Delete	delete currently selected track/detection
N	create new track or detection
space	play/pause
enter	go to first frame of selected