v1.0.0 (major update + cvat.org)

[1.0.0] - 2020-05-29

Added

• cvat-ui: cookie policy drawer for login page (#1511)
• datumaro_project export format (#1352)
• Ability to configure user agreements for the user registration form (#1464)
• Cuboid interpolation and cuboid drawing from rectangles (#1560)
• Ability to configure custom pageViewHit, which can be useful for web analytics integration (#1566)
• Ability to configure access to the analytics page based on roles (#1592)

Changed

• Downloaded file name in annotations export became more informative (#1352)
• Added auto trimming for trailing whitespaces style enforcement (#1352)
• REST API: updated GET /task/<id>/annotations: parameters are format, filename (now optional), action (optional) (#1352)
• REST API: removed dataset/formats, changed format of annotation/formats (#1352)
• Exported annotations are stored for N hours instead of indefinitely (#1352)
• Formats: CVAT format now accepts ZIP and XML (#1352)
• Formats: COCO format now accepts ZIP and JSON (#1352)
• Formats: most of formats renamed, no extension in title (#1352)
• Formats: definitions are changed, are not stored in DB anymore (#1352)
• cvat-core: session.annotations.put() now returns ids of added objects (#1493)
• Images without annotations now also included in dataset/annotations export (#525)

Removed

• annotation application is replaced with dataset_manager (#1352)
• _DATUMARO_INIT_LOGLEVEL env. variable is removed in favor of regular --loglevel cli parameter (#1583)

Fixed

• Categories for empty projects with no sources are taken from own dataset (#1352)
• Added directory removal on error during extract command (#1352)
• Added debug error message on incorrect XPath (#1352)
• Exporting frame stepped task (<#1294, https://github.com/opencv/cvat/issues/1334>)
• Fixed broken command line interface for cvat export format in Datumaro (#1494)
• Updated Rest API document, Swagger document serving instruction issue (#1495)
• Fixed cuboid occluded view (#1500)
• Non-informative lock icon (#1434)
• Sidebar in AAM has no hide/show button (#1420)
• Task/Job buttons has no "Open in new tab" option (#1419)
• Delete point context menu option has no shortcut hint (#1416)
• Fixed issue with unnecessary tag activation in cvat-canvas (#1540)
• Fixed an issue with large number of instances in instance mask (#1539)
• Fixed full COCO dataset import error with conflicting labels in keypoints and detection (#1548)
• Fixed COCO keypoints skeleton parsing and saving (#1539)
• tf.placeholder() is not compatible with eager execution exception for auto_segmentation (#1562)
• Canvas cannot be moved with move functionality on left mouse key (#1573)
• Deep extreme cut request is sent when draw any shape with Make AI polygon option enabled (#1573)
• Fixed an error when exporting a task with cuboids to any format except CVAT (#1577)
• Synchronization with remote git repo (#1582)
• A problem with mask to polygons conversion when polygons are too small (#1581)
• Unable to upload video with uneven size (#1594)
• Fixed an issue with z_order having no effect on segmentations (#1589)
• Permission group whitelist check for analytics view (#1608)

Cuboids + bug fixes

[1.0.0-beta.2] - 2020-04-30

Added

• Re-Identification algorithm to merging bounding boxes automatically to the new UI (#1406)
• Methods import and export to import/export raw annotations for Job and Task in cvat-core (#1406)
• Versioning of client packages (cvat-core, cvat-canvas, cvat-ui). Initial versions are set to 1.0.0 (#1448)
• Cuboids feature was migrated from old UI to new one. (#1451)

Removed

• Annotation convertation utils, currently supported natively via Datumaro framework (#1477)

Fixed

• Auto annotation, TF annotation and Auto segmentation apps (#1409)
• Import works with truncated images now: "OSError:broken data stream" on corrupt images (#1430)
• Hide functionality (H) doesn't work (#1445)
• The highlighted attribute doesn't correspond to the chosen attribute in AAM (#1445)
• Inconvinient image shaking while drawing a polygon (hold Alt key during drawing/editing/grouping to drag an image) (#1445)
• Filter property "shape" doesn't work and extra operator in description (#1445)
• Block of text information doesn't disappear after deactivating for locked shapes (#1445)
• Annotation uploading fails in annotation view (#1445)
• UI freezes after canceling pasting with escape (#1445)
• Duplicating keypoints in COCO export (#1435)
• CVAT new UI: add arrows on a mouse cursor (#1391)
• Delete point bug (in new UI) (#1440)
• Fix apache startup after PC restart (#1467)
• Open task button doesn't work (#1474)

Modern UI beta.1 + bug fixes

[1.0.0-beta.1] - 2020-04-15

Added

• Special behaviour for attribute value __undefined__ (invisibility, no shortcuts to be set in AAM)
• Dialog window with some helpful information about using filters
• Ability to display a bitmap in the new UI
• Button to reset colors settings (brightness, saturation, contrast) in the new UI
• Option to display shape text always
• Dedicated message with clarifications when share is unmounted (#1373)
• Ability to create one tracked point (#1383)
• Ability to draw/edit polygons and polylines with automatic bordering feature (#1394)
• Tutorial: instructions for CVAT over HTTPS
• Added deep extreme cut (semi-automatic segmentation) to the new UI (#1398)

Changed

• Increase preview size of a task till 256, 256 on the server
• Public ssh-keys are displayed in a dedicated window instead of console when create a task with a repository
• React UI is the primary UI

Fixed

• New shape is added when press esc when drawing instead of cancellation
• Dextr segmentation doesn't work.
• FileNotFoundError during dump after moving format files
• CVAT doesn't append outside shapes when merge polyshapes in old UI
• Layout sometimes shows double scroll bars on create task, dashboard and settings pages
• UI fails after trying to change frame during resizing, dragging, editing
• Hidden points (or outsided) are visible after changing a frame
• Merge is allowed for points, but clicks on points conflict with frame dragging logic
• Removed objects are visible for search
• Add missed task_id and job_id fields into exception logs for the new UI (#1372)
• UI fails when annotations saving occurs during drag/resize/edit (#1383)
• Multiple savings when hold Ctrl+S (a lot of the same copies of events were sent with the same working time) (#1383)
• UI doesn't have any reaction when git repos synchronization failed (#1383)
• Bug when annotations cannot be saved after (delete - save - undo - save) (#1383)
• VOC format exports Upper case labels correctly in lower case (#1379)
• Fixed polygon exporting bug in COCO dataset (#1387)
• Task creation from remote files (#1392)
• Job cannot be opened in some cases when the previous job was failed during opening (#1403)
• Deactivated shape is still highlighted on the canvas (#1403)
• AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'read' in ReID algorithm (#1403)
• Wrong semi-automatic segmentation near edges of an image (#1403)
• Git repos paths (#1400)

Data streaming using chunks

[1.0.0-alpha] - 2020-03-31

Added

• Data streaming using chunks (#1007)
• New UI: showing file names in UI (#1311)
• New UI: delete a point from context menu (#1292)

Fixed

• Git app cannot clone a repository (#1330)
• New UI: preview position in task details (#1312)
• AWS deployment (#1316)

Fix dump of annotations in some corner cases

[0.6.1] - 2020-03-21

Changed

• VOC task export now does not use official label map by default, but takes one
  from the source task to avoid primary-class and class part name
  clashing (#1275)

Fixed

• File names in LabelMe format export are no longer truncated (#1259)
• occluded and z_order annotation attributes are now correctly passed to Datumaro (#1271)
• Annotation-less tasks now can be exported as empty datasets in COCO (#1277)
• Frame name matching for video annotations import -
  allowed frame_XXXXXX[.ext] format (#1274)

Security

• Bump acorn from 6.3.0 to 6.4.1 in /cvat-ui (#1270)

Major update before new UI release

[0.6.0] - 2020-03-15

Added

• Server only support for projects. Extend REST API v1 (/api/v1/projects*)
• Ability to get basic information about users without admin permissions (#750)
• Changed REST API: removed PUT and added DELETE methods for /api/v1/users/ID
• Mask-RCNN Auto Annotation Script in OpenVINO format
• Yolo Auto Annotation Script
• Auto segmentation using Mask_RCNN component (Keras+Tensorflow Mask R-CNN Segmentation)
• REST API to export an annotation task (images + annotations)
• Datumaro - a framework to build, analyze, debug and visualize datasets
• Text Detection Auto Annotation Script in OpenVINO format for version 4
• Added in OpenVINO Semantic Segmentation for roads
• Ability to visualize labels when using Auto Annotation runner
• MOT CSV format support (#830)
• LabelMe format support (#844)
• Segmentation MASK format import (as polygons) (#1163)
• Git repositories can be specified with IPv4 address (#827)

Changed

• page_size parameter for all REST API methods
• React & Redux & Antd based dashboard
• Yolov3 interpretation script fix and changes to mapping.json
• YOLO format support (#1151)

Fixed

• Exception in Git plugin #826
• Label ids in TFrecord format now start from 1 #866
• Mask problem in COCO JSON style #718
• Datasets (or tasks) can be joined and split to subsets with Datumaro #791
• Output labels for VOC format can be specified with Datumaro #942
• Annotations can be filtered before dumping with Datumaro #994

Frozen version of scikit-image in requirements.txt

[0.5.2] - 2019-12-15

Fixed

• Frozen version of scikit-image==0.15 in requirements.txt because next releases don't support Python 3.5

Integration with Zenodo

[0.5.1] - 2019-10-17

Added

• Integration with Zenodo.org (DOI)

v0.5.0

Added

• A converter to YOLO format
• Installation guide
• Linear interpolation for a single point
• Video frame filter
• Running functional tests for REST API during a build
• Admins are no longer limited to a subset of python commands in the auto annotation application
• Remote data source (list of URLs to create an annotation task)
• Auto annotation using Faster R-CNN with Inception v2 (utils/open_model_zoo)
• Auto annotation using Pixel Link mobilenet v2 - text detection (utils/open_model_zoo)
• Ability to create a custom extractors for unsupported media types
• Added in PDF extractor
• Added in a command line model manager tester
• Ability to dump/load annotations in several formats from UI (CVAT, Pascal VOC, YOLO, MS COCO, png mask, TFRecord)
• Auth for REST API (api/v1/auth/): login, logout, register, ...
• Preview for the new CVAT UI (dashboard only) is available: http://localhost:9080/

Changed

• Outside and keyframe buttons in the side panel for all interpolation shapes (they were only for boxes before)
• Improved error messages on the client side (#511)

Removed

• "Flip images" has been removed. UI now contains rotation features.

Fixed

• Incorrect width of shapes borders in some cases
• Annotation parser for tracks with a start frame less than the first segment frame
• Interpolation on the server near outside frames
• Dump for case when task name has a slash
• Auto annotation fail for multijob tasks
• Installation of CVAT with OpenVINO on the Windows platform
• Background color was always black in utils/mask/converter.py
• Exception in attribute annotation mode when a label are switched to a value without any attributes
• Handling of wrong labelamp json file in auto annotation (#554)
• No default attributes in dumped annotation (#601)
• Required field "Frame Filter" on admin page during a task modifying (#666)
• Dump annotation errors for a task with several segments (#610, #500)
• Invalid label parsing during a task creating (#628)
• Button "Open Task" in the annotation view
• Creating a video task with 0 overlap

Security

• Upgraded Django, djangorestframework, and other packages

Hotfix for Google Chrome versions less than 72

Fixed

• JavaScript syntax incompatibility with Google Chrome versions less than 72