Roboflow + SageMaker Ground Truth

Upload the output manifest from a SageMaker Ground Truth labeling job to Roboflow, then train, convert or relabel the dataset without a conversion script.

Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth is the AWS labeling service that sends images to human workforces and writes the results to S3. AWS has closed it to new customers and plans no new features, so many teams are moving their labeled data elsewhere.

The handoff is the job's output manifest: a JSON Lines file in S3 where each line holds an image's source-ref path and its labels. Roboflow reads the SageMaker Ground Truth manifest format on upload, so the boxes and class names come across with the images, and you can export the dataset in any format Roboflow supports, including back to a manifest.

How to connect SageMaker Ground Truth to Roboflow

4 steps
  1. Download the output manifest

    Ground Truth writes the labeling job's output manifest to the S3 location set when the job was created. Download it together with the images it references.

  2. Create a Roboflow project

    Create a project with the same task type as the labeling job, for example object detection for a bounding box job.

  3. Upload the images and manifest

    Drag the images and the manifest into the upload area. Roboflow parses the manifest and attaches each label to its image.

  4. Generate a version

    Click Generate New Version and apply any preprocessing or augmentation. From here you can train a model or export the version in another format, such as COCO JSON.

What teams build with SageMaker Ground Truth

  • Move labeled data off Ground Truth

    Bring existing labeling job output into Roboflow before your team stops using Ground Truth.

  • Convert a manifest to COCO or YOLO

    Upload a manifest once and export the same labels in the format your training code expects.

  • Write a manifest for Rekognition

    Export a Roboflow dataset as a Ground Truth manifest, the format Rekognition Custom Labels imports.

Questions

No. AWS says SageMaker Ground Truth is no longer open to new customers; existing customers can keep using it, but no new features are planned.

The output manifest from the labeling job, a JSON Lines file with one image per line, plus the images it points to.

Yes. Sagemaker GroundTruth Manifest is one of Roboflow's export formats, so you can produce a manifest from any dataset version.

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