Object Detection
Draw bounding boxes around objects for object detection model training.
About this dataset
Object detection is the task of finding each object of interest in an image and marking it with a bounding box plus a class label. It is one of the core supervised computer-vision tasks and supplies the training data that detectors such as the YOLO and Faster R-CNN families learn from.
This entry is a generic annotation template rather than a specific published dataset. The images are placeholders, and the label set is a small illustrative one (person, car, dog, cat) meant to be swapped for whatever classes a project needs. The annotation task is to draw a tight box around every instance of a target class and assign it a label.
Because it is a template, there is no fixed corpus, category count, or benchmark split to report. In practice, bounding-box detection is defined by public datasets like COCO and PASCAL VOC, which are the canonical references for evaluation and label conventions but are not reproduced here.
The Potato config below reproduces this task with a single image_annotation scheme using the bbox tool and a short list of class labels, writing each box as coordinates in JSON output. It is meant as a starting point that you point at your own images and edit the label set to build a detection training set.
- Task type
- Object detection
- Annotation method
- Bounding boxes
- Potato tool
- image_annotation (bbox)
- Example labels
- Person, Car, Dog, Cat
- Output format
- JSON box coordinates
- Canonical references
- COCO, PASCAL VOC
Configuration Fileconfig.yaml
This Potato config reproduces the annotation task. Save it as config.yaml and run potato start config.yaml to try it.
annotation_task_name: "Object Detection"
task_name: "Object Detection"
task_description: "Draw bounding boxes around all objects of interest."
task_dir: "."
port: 8000
data_files:
- "sample-data.json"
item_properties:
id_key: "id"
text_key: "image_url"
image_key: image_url
annotation_schemes:
- annotation_type: image_annotation
name: objects
description: "Draw boxes around objects"
tools:
- bbox
labels:
- "Person"
- "Car"
- "Dog"
- "Cat"
output_annotation_dir: "output/"
output_annotation_format: "json"
Sample Datasample-data.json
[
{
"id": "1",
"image_url": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1517849845537-4d257902454a?w=640"
},
{
"id": "2",
"image_url": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1506905925346-21bda4d32df4?w=640"
}
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Quick start:
git clone https://github.com/davidjurgens/potato-showcase.git cd potato-showcase/templates/image/object-detection potato start config.yaml
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