IBM Cloud is developing a suite of tools to complement their Watson AI platform. Cloud Annotations is an open source tool that can create labels for classification and object detection computer vision projects.
Cloud Annotations can export to several popular formats including VOC XML and YOLO TXT, but it also has its own proprietary JSON format. To convert this JSON format to any other format, you can use Roboflow.
Below, learn the structure of IBM Cloud Annotations JSON.
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}
}With Roboflow supervision, an open source Python package with utilities for completing computer vision tasks, you can merge and split detections in IBM Cloud Annotations JSON. Read our dedicated guides to learn how to merge and split IBM Cloud Annotations JSON detections.
Below, see model architectures that require data in the IBM Cloud Annotations JSON format when training a new model.
On each page below, you can find links to our guides that show how to plot predictions from the model, and complete other common tasks like detecting small objects with the model.