visiannot 0.2.4

Graphical user interface for visualization and annotation of video and signal data

ViSiAnnoT

ViSiAnnoT (Video Signal Annotation Tool) is a package that provides a graphical user interface for the visualization and annotation of video and signal data.

The main features are:

• Simultaneous visualization of several videos

• Simultaneous visualization of several signals

  • Regularly sampled or not
  • Zoom on signals
  • Plot thresholds on signals
  • Plot temporal intervals on signals

• Combined visualization of videos and signals

• Management of long recordings (split in several files)

  • Automatic synchronization between the different modalities
  • Tools for fast navigation

• Multi-label annotation of temporal events

• Multi-label image extraction

• Configuration via a graphical user interface

Documentation

Documentation is hosted on ReadTheDocs.

Installation

Pip

The easiest way is to install ViSiAnnoT with pip:

$ pip install visiannot

You may need to call pip3 instead.

From source

You may install ViSiAnnoT from source:

$ git clone https://github.com/RphWbr/visiannot
$ cd visiannot
$ pip install .

Depedencies

ViSiAnnoT requires Python 3.6+.

It is cross-platform and has been tested on Windows 7/10, Ubuntu 16/18/20 and MacOS Mojave/Catalina.

The following packages are required and are automatically installed with pip:

• configobj (saving and loading configuration files)
• opencv-python
• h5py
• numpy
• PyQt5 (GUI creation)
• pyqtgraph (video and signal plots)
• pytz (used for date-time comparison)
• scipy

Support

This package is developed at the LTSI Lab, INSERM-1099, located at Université Rennes 1, France.

For any enquiry, please send an email to [e-mail].

If you encounter a bug, feel free to raise an issue on GitHub.

Used by

ViSiAnnoT has been used in several clinical studies during the time of initial developments, with a particular focus in pediatrics. In particular, it has been used in a study on quiet sleep organization that has been published in the following article, where is introduced ViSiAnnoT: Quiet Sleep Organization of Very Preterm Infants Is Correlated With Postnatal Maturation.