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Status: PRODUCTIVE

Overview

BIIGLE is a web-based software for image and video annotation that enables collaborative research on large datasets. Annotation is the process of marking objects of interest (e.g. with points, circles, polygons) in images or videos and describing these objects with labels. BIIGLE offers tools for manual and computer-assisted annotation, quality control and the collaboration on custom taxonomies to describe objects. BIIGLE is freely available and can be installed in cloud environments, a local network or on mobile platforms during research expeditions. The public instance on biigle.de is free for non-commercial use.

The target user groups include (but are not limited to) biologists, ecologists, geologists or engineers who need to analyze large amounts of image or video data. BIIGLE provides a highly user-friendly graphical interface which does not require extensive learning to operate. Users just need to be experts in their imaging domain to identify the objects or regions in the imaging data. The software supports any image and video format that web browsers can display (and also large TIFF images). Annotations and image metadata can be exported in various (machine readable) report files. BIIGLE also supports the emerging image and video (annotation) metadata standard iFDO.

Getting started

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User Guide

In a typical use case, a user creates a new BIIGLE account on biigle.de. Once the account was confirmed by the administrators, the user can upload thier image and video files to BIIGLE or link the files from a self-managed web server. Using these files, the user can create an annotation project and in the project image or video collections (called "volumes") to organize the data. They can also create taxonomic lists (called "label trees") with labels that are used to describe objects or regions in the imaging data. Next, the user can use the image and video annotation tools to annotate their data. Finally, they can request a report file with a (machine-readable) summary of their annotations and image metadata. The report file can be used for further processing and analysis.
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Developer Guide

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References

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  • Langenkämper, D., Zurowietz, M., Schoening, T. and Nattkemper, T.W., 2017. Biigle 2.0-browsing and annotating large marine image collections. Frontiers in Marine Science, 4, p.83. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2017.00083

  • Zurowietz, Martin, Daniel Langenkämper, and Tim W. Nattkemper. "BIIGLE2Go—a scalable image annotation system for easy deployment on cruises." OCEANS 2019-Marseille. IEEE, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2019.8867417

  • Zurowietz, M. and Nattkemper, T.W., 2021. Current trends and future directions of large scale image and video annotation: Observations from four years of BIIGLE 2.0. Frontiers in Marine Science, p.1752. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.760036

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