What is Data Annotation and What are the Types of Annotation Services?
Making the data understandable to machines by labeling using the certain techniques like outlining or shading the text or objects images is basically known as data annotation. The data can be anything from simple text to images or videos and audios available in various formats.
The main motive of data annotation is highlighting the important words, texts or objects using the annotation techniques to make it recognizable to machines or computer vision used for machine learning or artificial intelligence model developments.
Types of Data Annotation
There are different types of data annotation services offered by companies providing machine learning and AI training data. Text Annotation, Image Annotation, Audio Annotation, Video Annotation are the leading types of annotation services you can find in the market. And under each types there are certain annotation techniques like image annotation bounding boxes, cuboid, semantic, polygons and point or polylines are the popular annotation methods.