Free AI developer app: IBM's new tool can label objects in videos for you ZDNet

IBM has released a new free tool designed to help developers cut the chore of labeling images in video when training AI object-detection models. The new auto-labeling tool is part of IBM's push to stay relevant to developers building AI products using the Google-built open-source TensorFlow framework in the IBM Cloud. IBM hopes its auto-labeling tool attracts developers looking to save effort and time when developing new AI applications with TensorFlow. IBM estimates it takes 200 to 500 samples of hand-labeled images for an AI object-recognition model to detect a specific object. The promise is that developers building these models can spend time on more interesting and valuable tasks than labeling objects in video, which is as tedious and as combing through receipts at the end of the month – but also necessary.