LabelImg is a graphical image annotation tool.
It is written in Python and uses Qt for its graphical interface.
Annotations are saved as XML files in PASCAL VOC format, the format used by ImageNet. Besides, it also supports YOLO and CreateML formats.
Linux/Ubuntu/Mac requires at least Python 2.6 and has been tested with PyQt 4.8. However, Python 3 or above and PyQt5 are strongly recommended.
Python 3 + Qt5
sudo apt-get install pyqt5-dev-tools
sudo pip3 install -r requirements/requirements-linux-python3.txt
make qt5py3
python3 labelImg.py
python3 labelImg.py [IMAGE_PATH] [PRE-DEFINED CLASS FILE]Python 3 + Qt5
brew install qt # Install qt-5.x.x by Homebrew
brew install libxml2
or using pip
pip3 install pyqt5 lxml # Install qt and lxml by pip
make qt5py3
python3 labelImg.py
python3 labelImg.py [IMAGE_PATH] [PRE-DEFINED CLASS FILE]Python 3 Virtualenv (Recommended)
Virtualenv can avoid a lot of the QT / Python version issues
brew install python3
pip3 install pipenv
pipenv run pip install pyqt5==5.12.1 lxml
pipenv run make qt5py3
pipenv run python3 labelImg.py
[Optional] rm -rf build dist; python setup.py py2app -A;mv "dist/labelImg.app" /ApplicationsNote: The Last command gives you a nice .app file with a new SVG Icon in your /Applications folder. You can consider using the script: build-tools/build-for-macos.sh
Install Python, PyQt5 and install lxml.
Open cmd and go to the labelImg directory
pyrcc4 -o libs/resources.py resources.qrc
For pyqt5, pyrcc5 -o libs/resources.py resources.qrc
python labelImg.py
python labelImg.py [IMAGE_PATH] [PRE-DEFINED CLASS FILE]Download and install Anaconda (Python 3+)
Open the Anaconda Prompt and go to the labelImg directory
conda install pyqt=5
conda install -c anaconda lxml
pyrcc5 -o libs/resources.py resources.qrc
python labelImg.py
python labelImg.py [IMAGE_PATH] [PRE-DEFINED CLASS FILE]docker run -it \
--user $(id -u) \
-e DISPLAY=unix$DISPLAY \
--workdir=$(pwd) \
--volume="/home/$USER:/home/$USER" \
--volume="/etc/group:/etc/group:ro" \
--volume="/etc/passwd:/etc/passwd:ro" \
--volume="/etc/shadow:/etc/shadow:ro" \
--volume="/etc/sudoers.d:/etc/sudoers.d:ro" \
-v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix \
tzutalin/py2qt4
make qt4py2;./labelImg.pyYou can pull the image which has all of the installed and required dependencies. Watch a demo video
- Build and launch using the instructions above.
- Click 'Change default saved annotation folder' in Menu/File
- Click 'Open Dir'
- Click 'Create RectBox'
- Click and release left mouse to select a region to annotate the rect box
- You can use right mouse to drag the rect box to copy or move it
The annotation will be saved to the folder you specify.
You can refer to the below hotkeys to speed up your workflow.
You can edit the data/predefined_classes.txt to load pre-defined classes
| Ctrl + u | Load all of the images from a directory |
| Ctrl + r | Change the default annotation target dir |
| Ctrl + s | Save |
| Ctrl + d | Copy the current label and rect box |
| Ctrl + Shift + d | Delete the current image |
| Space | Flag the current image as verified |
| w | Create a rect box |
| q | Create a box as the same class of the last one |
| d | Next image |
| a | Previous image |
| s | Remove selected box |
| Ctrl++ | Zoom in |
| Ctrl-- | Zoom out |
| ↑→↓← | Keyboard arrows to move selected rect box |
Verify Image:
When pressing space, the user can flag the image as verified, a green background will appear. This is used when creating a dataset automatically, the user can then through all the pictures and flag them instead of annotate them.
Difficult:
The difficult field is set to 1 indicates that the object has been annotated as "difficult", for example, an object which is clearly visible but difficult to recognize without substantial use of context. According to your deep neural network implementation, you can include or exclude difficult objects during training.
In case there are issues with loading the classes, you can either:
- From the top menu of the labelimg click on Menu/File/Reset All
- Remove the .labelImgSettings.pkl from your home directory. In Linux and Mac you can do:
- rm ~/.labelImgSettings.pkl
Send a pull request
Citation: Tzutalin. LabelImg. Git code (2015). https://github.com/tzutalin/labelImg