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Sharing this Project

This project has not been shared yet. If you want to share this project with others and allow them to contribute to this VIA project, click button in the toolbar.

Loading a Shared Project

A unique project-id is assigned to every shared VIA project. You must have received such a unique project-id when someone asked you to contribute to a VIA project. Click button in the toolbar to open a shared project.

If you do not have access to a shared project-id and you can explore the following publicly shared demonstration projects:

Video Annotation: e302eadf-aa53-4a5a-b958-11175692c928
Audio Annotation: d4a9bc87-9652-42c3-a336-f41e18d638e6

This feature is not stable yet. If you encounter any issues, please report it.

Information about this shared project

How can others contribute to this project?

This project has already been shared and therefore anyone can contribute to this project. To contribute to this project, other users should to follow these steps:

Open the VIA application (version 3.0.3 or higher) in a web browser.
Click button in the top toolbar.
Enter the following project-id:
Make changes to the project and click to share your updates with others.

Important Notes

Do not store private or confidential information in a shared VIA project. Furthermore, be careful when you share your project-id with others as it allows them to make any changes to your project.
The VIA servers do not maintain backup copy of the shared VIA projects. In the event of disk failure, all data will be lost. So, we strongly advise you to always keep a local copy of your project data.
We cannot guarantee 24/7 availability of VIA project share servers. In the event of hardware or disk failure, the VIA project share servers will be offline for an extended period of time.
This VIA share feature should not be used for large scale collaborative annotation projects. For such use cases, we advise you to setup a dedicated server with sufficient backup and secutiry.
The shared VIA project should not exceed 1MB in size.

Open a Shared VIA Project

A unique project-id is assigned to every shared VIA project. For example, the following two project-id have been publicly shared for demonstration purposes:

Video Annotation: e302eadf-aa53-4a5a-b958-11175692c928
Audio Annotation: d4a9bc87-9652-42c3-a336-f41e18d638e6

To open a shared project, enter the project-id below:

VIA Project Id

Some Quick Tips

Press Space key at any time to play or pause the audio or video.
Use a key to add a new temporal segment. Here are more shortcuts.
Pre-defined temporal segments appear at the bottom (colourful boxes). Using mouse, select them, move them and delete them (using Backspace key)
Move your mouse over the temporal segment timeline and roll your mouse button to zoom in/out
Add new timeline by adding a new entry to the Timeline List (at the bottom) and press "Update" button. For example, "Speaker1,Speaker2" to add timelines for two speakers.
Use the attribute editor to define or update attributes (e.g. name, colour, speaker_id, etc) of user defined spatial regions or temporal segments.

Keyboard Shortcuts

General

Command	Shortcut
Play/Pause Media	Space
Toggle Media Mute	m
Increase / Decrease Media Playback Speed	+ / -
Move Media Time Backward by 1, ..., 9 sec. (Ctrl to move forward)	Ctrl + 1, 2, ..., 9
Move Media Time Forward or Backward by 5 frames	N / P
Add Temporal Segment at Current Time	a
Update the edge (left or right) of last added segment to current time	Shift + a
Select Previous / Next Temporal Segment Timeline	↑ / ↓
Reorder timeline list by moving current timeline above/below its current position	Ctrl + ↑ / ↓
Select [Previous] Next Temporal Segment (e.g. 3sec to 5sec)	Shift + Tab
Select Temporal Segment at Current Time (if any)	Enter
Move to Previous / Next Video Frame	l / r
Jump to Start/End of Video	Shift + s / e
Move to previous/next video frame	← / →
Shift Visible Timeline by 60 sec.	Shift + ← / →
Zoom In/Out the Temporal Segment Timeline	Mouse Wheel
Pan the Temporal Segment Timeline Horizontally	Shift + Mouse Wheel

When a Temporal Segment is Selected

Command	Shortcut
Play/Pause Video Locked to Segment Boundary	Spc
Delete Selected Temporal Segment	Backspace
Select [Previous] Next Temporal Segment	[Shift] + Tab
Unselect Temporal Segment	Esc
Increase/Decrease the Extent of Left Edge (Ctrl updates by 1 sec.)	[Ctrl] + l / L
Increase/Decrease the Extent of Right edge (Ctrl updates by 1 sec.)	[Ctrl] + r / R
Jump to Start/End of Temporal Segment	s / e
Move Selected Temporal Segment (Ctrl updates by 1 sec.)	[Ctrl] + ← / →
Merge Selected Temporal Segment with the Segment on Left/Right	Shift + ← / →
Move Selected Temporal Segment to Previous / Next Temporal Segment Timeline	↑ / ↓

Spatial Regions in an Image or a Video Frame

Command	Shortcut
Select All Regions	Ctrl + a
Delete Selected Regions	Backspace or Delete
Toggle visibility of region shape boundary	b
Toggle visibility of region label	l

VGG Image Annotator (VIA)

Version: __VIA_VERSION__

VGG Image Annotator (VIA) is a simple and standalone manual annotation tool for image, audio and video. The VIA software is a light weight, standalone and offline software package that does not require any installation or setup and runs solely in a web browser. The complete VIA software fits in a single self-contained HTML page of size less than 500 kilobyte that runs as an offline application in most modern web browsers. VIA software is an open source project created solely using HTML, Javascript and CSS. More details about VIA is available from http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/software/via.

Open Source Ecosystem

We have nurtured a large and thriving open source community which not only provides feedback but also contributes code to add new features and improve existing features in the VIA software. The open source ecosystem of VIA thrives around its source code repository hosted by the Gitlab platform. Most of our users report issues and request new features for future releases using the issue portal. Many of our users not only submit bug reports but also suggest a potential fix for these software issues. Some of our users also contribute code to add new features to the VIA software using the merge request portal. A list of our contributors is available here.

Thanks to the flexibility provided by our BSD open source software license, many industrial projects have adapted the VIA software for internal or commercial use.