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  <h3 class="mb-4">About Us</h3>
  <p>CVAT was designed to provide users with a set of convenient instruments for annotating digital images and videos. <br/> CVAT supports supervised machine learning tasks pertaining to object detection, image classification, image segmentation and 3D data annotation. It allows users to annotate images with four types of shapes: boxes, polygons (both generally and for segmentation tasks), polylines (e.g., for annotation of markings on roads), <br/> and points (e.g., for annotation of face landmarks or pose estimation).</p>
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  <p>Data scientists need annotated data (and lots of it) to train the deep neural networks (DNNs) at the core of AI workflows. Obtaining annotated data or annotating data yourself is a challenging and time-consuming process. <br/> For example, it took about 3,100 total hours for members of Intel’s own data annotation team to annotate more than 769,000 objects for just one of our algorithms. To help solve this challenge, Intel is conducting research to find better methods of data annotation and deliver tools that help developers do the same.</p>
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        <h2 class="mt-2">2016
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        <small class="text-left"><a href="http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~vondrick/vatic/">Vatic</a> as a web-based annotation solution.</small>
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        <h2 class="mt-2">2017
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        <small class="text-left">Internal version with support for images and attributes.</small>
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        <h2 class="mt-2">2018
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        <small class="text-left">First public release on GitHub.</small>
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        <small class="text-left">UI based on React and AntD. <br/><a href="https://app.cvat.ai/">app.cvat.ai</a> as data platform.</small>
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        <small class="text-left">Dataset as the first-class citizen.</small>
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      <img tabindex="0" id="world-map-marker" style="top: 27%; left: 59.5%" alt="Nikita Manovich" src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/40690625?v=4">
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      <img tabindex="0" id="world-map-marker" style="top: 27%; left: 61.5%" alt="Andrey Zhavoronkov" src="https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/ai/bios/Andrey-Zhavoronkov.jpg.rendition.intel.web.336.252.jpg">
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      <img tabindex="0" id="world-map-marker" style="top: 31%; left: 60.5%" alt="Maxim Zhiltsov" src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/13832349?v=4">
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    Feedback from users helps Intel determine future direction for CVAT’s development. We hope to improve the tool’s user experience, feature set, stability, automation features and ability to be integrated with other services and encourage members of the community to take an active part in CVAT’s development.
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            You can ask questions anytime in <a href="https://gitter.im/opencv-cvat/public">public Gitter chat</a>.
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            You can find answers to your questions on <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%23cvat">Stack Overflow</a>.
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            We have is a separate <a href="https://gitter.im/opencv-cvat/dev">Gitter chat for developers</a> to discuss the development of CVAT.
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            Visit our <a href="https://github.com/cvat-ai/cvat">GitHub</a> repository.
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