Time Series Annotation Tools

Time series annotation requires handling of sequential information as present in signals recorded over time. In contrast to NLP (text) or image annotation time series annotation requires the analysis of a signal over time. Think about listening to a small voice message and having the task of annotating it. Depending...Read more
Rotoscoping: Hollywood’s video data segmentation?

Rotoscoping: Hollywood’s video data segmentation?

In Hollywood, video data segmentation has been done for decades. Simple tricks such as color keying with green screens can reduce work significantly. In late 2018 we worked on a video segmentation toolbox. One of the common problems in video editing is oversaturated or too bright sky when shooting a...Read more
Thank you for reading this blog

Thank you for reading this blog

Since I started this blog at the beginning of February over 200 interested people visited the website. I’ll use this post to express my thanks to everyone. Since this is a data-driven blog and I like to be transparent let’s have a look from where the interested readers are coming...Read more
List of Data Annotation Companies

List of Data Annotation Companies

An up to date and manually curated list of top data annotation companies from all over the world. Grouped by annotation type. I’ve been looking for data labeling for computer vision data. There are a lot of good companies offering services. Most of them follow similar principles such as outsourcing...Read more
Humans Powering the Machines

Humans Powering the Machines

There is a hype around AI built on top of recent success with deep learning. But there is one unsolved piece in the equation. AI needs to learn from humans. When I heard about machine learning for the first time, I thought it would just simply work like this. Let’s...Read more
Tools and Frameworks

Tools and Frameworks

Find the best tool for you out of a list of fast tools and frameworks for data annotation or labeling for images, videos, text (NLP) or audio. I had trouble getting a good overview of all the tools and frameworks around for data annotation so I created this list. I...Read more
A random forest image classifier in a day

A random forest image classifier in a day

Learn about how we did collect data and trained a random forest image classifier within a single day for Hack Zurich 2016. One of my first projects using my newly gathered know-how of machine learning was during HackZurich 2016. We built a sign digitizer which turned handwritten signs into word-like...Read more

Welcome to my blog about ML and data

My background and motivation for starting a blog about my personal experience and projects around data annotation and machine learning. Around 2014 my interests in machine learning started to grow. Just the idea of teaching a machine to do certain things instead of hard coding it fascinated me. To feed...Read more