FastAnnotation

A tool which aims to streamline the annotation process for computer vision projects dealing with Object Detection, Instance Segmentation and Semantic Segmentation.

Installation

Requirements

Python 3.6 or greater

Client

Note: For the following Installation steps please ensure pip is run with administrative privileges.

1. Kivy installation
   1. Windows:

      python -m pip install --upgrade pip wheel setuptools
      python -m pip install docutils pygments pypiwin32 kivy.deps.sdl2 kivy.deps.glew
      python -m pip install kivy.deps.gstreamer
      python -m pip install kivy.deps.angle
      python -m pip install kivy
      

   2. Ubuntu:

      python -m pip install -r client_requirements.txt
      

Server

1. Flask installation

   1.Windows installation

   python -m pip install flask
   python -m pip install flask-restplus
   python -m pip install flask_negotiate
   python -m pip install python-dateutil
   python -m pip install mysql-connector-python
   

   2. Ubuntu

   python -m pip install -r server_requirements.txt
   

2. MySql Installation

   1. Windows:

   TODO
   

   2. Ubuntu:
      1. Install mysql

         sudo apt-get install mysql-workbench
         

      2. Create a connection to the database and run the database/create_database.sql script
      3. (Optional) run the 'database/create_test_data.sql' script to populate tables with test data
   3. Alternatively, Docker can be used to run a MySQL database for development.
      1. Download and install Docker and Docker Compose
      2. Start the container with

      >> docker-compose up
      

      3. Stop the container with

      >> docker-compose down
      

      4. To stop the container and delete the volume (deleting all data in the DB)

      >> docker-compose down -v
      

Build

Linux builds

Prior to any linux builds please install the appropriate python dev tools and upgrade setuptools. (Replace python verson as required)

pip install --upgrade setuptools
apt-get install python3.6-dev

Client

1. Install Pyinstaller (if required)

pip install pyinstaller

2. Navigate to build_scripts

pyinstaller --clean client.spec

3. Move zip to desired location

Server

1. Install Pyinstaller (if required)

pip installer pyinstaller

2. Navigate to build_scripts

pyinstaller --clean server.spec

3. Move zip to desired location