Support PASCAL-VOC-like export format about imagetagger HOT 5 CLOSED

Thank you very much for your contribution and your ideas!
I don't want to directly implement any format because i want to keep the flexibility at the highest possible level. So i'd rather add functionality to the export creation itself.
As far as i see, the path is the only problem here. The filename has the %%image placeholder. Because the path to the file depends on the system i'd recommend using a shell variable (e.g. export IMAGE_SET_PATH='/home/nfiedler/Bit-Bots/imagetagger') and saving the images in a directory in that path named after the imageset. Then you could use the export format as follows:

<folder>%%imageset</folder>
<filename>%%image</filename>
<path>$IMAGE_SET_PATH/%%imageset/%%image</path>

Therefore the %%imageset placeholder is needed in the annotation format. This is missing right now.

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Thanks for your help!
I'v tried this:

• for Base format

<annotation>
	<folder>%%imageset</folder>
	<location>%%setlocation</location>
	<team>%%team</eram>
	<source>
		<database>Unknown</database>
	</source>
	<segmented>0</segmented>
%%content
</annotation>

• for Annotation format

	<filename>%%image</filename>
	<path>$IMAGE_SET_ROOT/%%imageset/%%image</path>
	<size>
		<width>%%imagewidth</width>
		<height>%%imageheight</height>
		<depth>%imagedepth</depth>
	</size>
	<object>
		<name>%%type</name>
		<noobject>0</noobject>
		<pose>Unspecified</pose>
		<truncated>0</truncated>
		<difficult>0</difficult>
		<verified>%%veriamount</verified>
		<bndbox>
			<xmin>%%x1</xmin>
			<ymin>%%y1</ymin>
			<xmax>%%x2</xmax>
			<ymax>%%y2</ymax>
		</bndbox>
	</object>

• for Not in image format

	<filename>%%image</filename>
	<path>$IMAGE_SET_ROOT/%%imageset/%%image</path>
	<size>
		<width>%%imagewidth</width>
		<height>%%imageheight</height>
		<depth>%imagedepth</depth>
	</size>

	<object>
		<name>%%type</name>
		<noobject>1</noobject>
		<pose>Unspecified</pose>
		<truncated>0</truncated>
		<difficult>0</difficult>
		<verified>%%veriamount</verified>
	</object>

But there comes two problems:

• You don't supply the placeholders for width, height and depth of a single image file;
• It seems that current exporting util is designed to export all annotations of all images into single file. I'm wondering if it's convenient for you to add a feature to export all annotations of each image into a single file and then compress them up.

Of course, if you're focusing on add other useful features which is much more important, I can also write a tiny Python script to convert the current all-in-one annotation file into what I desired. That's quite easy.

Thanks for your great contribution on building such an excellent image labelling tool!

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Now i understand the problem. I think two features are needed to realize this functionality:

• aggregation of annotations by image
  • an additional image form is required (base, image, annotation, not in image)
• exporting into multiple files (one for every image)

The aggregation of annotations by image would make it very easy to split the file locally until the splitting feature is implemented.

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Thanks for your quick reply!
Then I'll write my own scripts for temporary use and wait for the splitting feature.

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Meanwhile the aggregation by image is possible and the additional placeholders are implemented. I wouldn't like to have the splitting feature on our hosted version, because it leads to a high server load (creation and zipping of thousands of files for large imagesets), and is easily achievable with a simple script on the client side.

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