  In this paper, we introduce a simple and standalone manual annotation tool
for images, audio and video: the VGG Image Annotator (VIA). This is a light
weight, standalone and offline software package that does not require any
installation or setup and runs solely in a web browser. The VIA software allows
human annotators to define and describe spatial regions in images or video
frames, and temporal segments in audio or video. These manual annotations can
be exported to plain text data formats such as JSON and CSV and therefore are
amenable to further processing by other software tools. VIA also supports
collaborative annotation of a large dataset by a group of human annotators. The
BSD open source license of this software allows it to be used in any academic
project or commercial application.
