Image Annotation: What is it & why is it important?

Image annotation is one of the most important stages in the development of computer vision and image recognition applications, which involves recognizing, obtaining, describing, and interpreting results from digital images or videos. Computer vision is widely used in AI applications such as autonomous vehicles, medical imaging, or security. Therefore, image annotation plays a crucial role for AI/ML development in many sectors. Supervised ML models require data labeling to work effectively. Image annotation is a subset of data labeling where the labeling process focuses only on visual digital data such as images and videos. Image annotation often requires manual work.