Overview

Ratsnake is a novel software tool for efficient, semantically-aware graphic annotation of images. It aims to aid the collection of knowledge regarding image content for pattern recognition, image mining and related applications. Ratsnake utilizes a novel semi-automatic image annotation framework based on a customizable active contour model that takes into account quick user annotations.

Ratsnake has been developed with Java.

Terms of Use

If you enjoy using Ratsnake please cite at least one of the papers listed here

Features

Fast segmentation and annotation of images with polygons, grids or both.
Efficient semi-automatic annotation of images and image sequences.
Ontology-based image annotation
Annotation of web content.
Image annotations for the semantic web
Publication of annotations on the web.
Transformation of binary image masks to polygon annotations.
Compatibility with the well known LabelMe annotation tool.
Exporting of annotations to various formats (custom text, owl, LabelMe XML).

Funding

Ratsnake was initially co-funded by the EC FP7 project DEBUGIT grant agreement FP7–217139 2008-2011.

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