History#

All release highlights of this project will be documented in this file.

4.4.19 - February 08, 2024#

Updated

  • SAClient.attach_items() added the ability to attach items from custom integrated storage.

4.4.18 - January 18, 2024#

Updated

  • Improved error handling.

Removed

  • dependency from jsonschema.

4.4.17 - December 21, 2023#

Added

  • SAClient.upload_annotations() added default values to the annotations during the upload.

Updated

  • Fixed SAClient.search_project() search with special characters.

  • pandas dependency pandas~=2.0

4.4.16 - November 12, 2023#

Added

  • SAClient.download_annotations() support for integrated storages.

Updated

  • Documentation updates

  • pillow dependency pillow>=9.5,~=10.0.

  • opencv dependency replaced by opencv-python-headless~=4.7.

  • pydantic dependency pydantic>=1.10,!=2.0.*.

4.4.15 - August 20, 2023#

Added

  • Support for relationship class types in the document project.

4.4.14 - August 20, 2023#

Added

  • New project type support CustomEditor.

Updated

  • SAClient.get_item_by_id() Fixed.

  • SAClient.consensus() Deprecation.

4.4.13 - June 04, 2023#

Updated

  • SAClient.download_annotations() Replaced ___objects.json and ___pixel.json postfixes to .json.

  • SAClient.set_approval_statuses() Added Document project support.

  • SAClient.convert_project_type() Added required argument convert_to.

  • SAClient.import_annotation() Replaced ___objects.json and ___pixel.json postfixes to .json.

  • SAClient.download_export() Replaced ___objects.json and ___pixel.json postfixes to .json.

Removed

  • SAClient.convert_json_version() method.

4.4.12 - April 23, 2023#

Updated

  • SAClient.get_annotations_per_frame() Added interpolation of polygonal and polyline annotations.

Fixed

  • SAClient.add_contributors_to_project() method.

  • SAClient.run_prediction() method.

Removed

  • SAClient.create_project_from_metadata() method.

  • SAClient.get_project_image_count() method.

4.4.11 - April 2, 2023#

Added

  • SAClient.set_project_status() method.

  • SAClient.set_folder_status() method.

Updated

  • SAClient.create_annotation_class() added OCR type attribute group support in the vector projects.

  • SAClient.create_annotation_classes_from_classes_json() added OCR type attribute group support in the vector projects.

4.4.10 - March 12, 2023#

Updated

  • Configuration file creation flow

  • SAClient.search_projects() method, removed include_complete_image_count argument, use include_complete_item_count instead.

  • SAClient.get_project_metadata() method, removed include_complete_image_count argument, use include_complete_item_count instead.

  • SAClient.create_project() method to support classes, workflows and instructions_link.

Fixed

  • SAClient.clone_project() method to address the issue of FPS mode is not being copied.

Deprecated

  • SAClient.create_project_from_metadata() method, use SAClient.create_project() instead.

  • SAClient.get_project_image_count() method, use SAClient.get_project_metadata() instead.

Removed

  • SAClient.class_distribution() method

  • SAClient.benchmark() method

4.4.9 - January 29, 2023#

Added

  • SAClient.set_approval_statuses method function to change the approval status of items (images, audio / videos) in bulk.

Updated

  • SAClient.convert_project_type method updated from Pixel to Vector converter, added polygon holes handling.

4.4.8 - December 25, 2022#

Added

  • New project types Tiled, PointCloud, Other.

  • SAClient.get_project_by_id method to get project metadata by id.

  • SAClient.get_folder_by_id method to get folder metadata by id.

  • SAClient.get_item_by_id method to get item metadata by id.

Updated

  • SAClient.consensus method to compute agreement scores between tag type annotations.

4.4.7 - December 04, 2022#

Updated

  • SAClient.search_folders method to add a new status argument for searching folders via status.

  • Schemas for Annotation Classes and Video Annotation to support text and numeric input attribute group types.

Fixed

  • SAClient.query method to address invalid exceptions.

  • SAClient.download_export method to address the issue with downloading for Windows OS.

  • SAClient.attach_items_from_integrated_storage method to address “integration not found” error.

  • SAClient.aggregate_annotations_as_df method to support files without “___objects” in their naming.

Removed

  • SAClient.add_annotation_bbox_to_image method, use SAClient.upload_annotations instead.

  • SAClient.add_annotation_point_to_image method, use SAClient.upload_annotations instead.

  • SAClient.add_annotation_comment_to_image method, use SAClient.upload_annotations instead.

4.4.6 - November 23, 2022#

Updated

  • SAClient.aggregate_annotations_as_df method to aggregate “comment” type instances.

  • SAClient.add_annotation_bbox_to_image, SAClient.add_annotation_point_to_image, SAClient.add_annotation_comment_to_image methods to add deprecation warnings.

Fixed

  • Special characters are being encoded after annotation upload (Windows)

  • SAClient.assign_folder method to address the invalid argument name.

  • SAClient.upload_images_from_folder_to_project method to address uploading of more than 500 items.

  • SAClient.upload_annotations_from_folder_to_project method to address the issue of a folder size being more than 25,5 MB.

  • SAClient.download_image method to address the KeyError ‘id’ when include_annotations is set to True.

Removed

  • SAClient.upload_preannotations_from_folder_to_project method

  • SAClient.copy_image method

4.4.5 - October 23, 2022#

Added

  • SAClient.add_items_to_subset method to associate given items with a Subset.

  • SAClient.upload_annotations method to upload annotations in SA format from the system memory.

Updated

  • SAClient.upload_annotations_from_folder_to_project & SAClient.upload_image_annotations methods to add keep_status argument to prevent the annotation status from changing to In Progress after the annotation upload.

  • Item metadata to add a new key for holding the id of an item.

  • SAClient.upload_preannotations_from_folder_to_project to add a deprecation warning message.

  • SAClient.copy_image to add a deprecation warning message.

Fixed

  • SAClient.validate_annotations method.

  • SAClient.search_items, SAClient.get_item_metadata methods to address defects related to pydantic 1.8.2.

  • A defect related to editor to address the issue of uploading a tag instance without attributes.

4.4.4 - September 11, 2022#

Updated

  • Improvements on working with large files.

Fixed

  • SAClient.upload_annotations_from_folder_to_project() method to address the issue of the disappearing progress bar.

  • SAClient.run_prediction() method to address the issue of the OCR model.

  • SAClient.validate_annotations() method to address the issue of missing log messages.

  • SAClient.create_project_from_metadata() method to address the issue of returning deprecated is_multiselect key.

  • SAClient.get_annotations() method to address the issue of returning error messages as annotation dicts.

4.4.2, 4.4.3 - August 21, 2022#

Updated

  • the schema of classes JSON to support new values for the "group_type" key for a given attribute group. "group_type": "radio" | "checklist" | "text" | "numeric".

  • the schema of video annotation JSON to support instances that have a "tag" type.

Fixed

  • SAClient.get_annotations() method to address the issue of working with the large projects.

  • SAClient.get_annotations_per_frame() method to address the issue of throwing an error on small videos when the fps is set to 1.

  • SAClient.upload_annotations_from_folder_to_project() to address the issue of timestamp values represented in seconds for the "lastAction".

  • SAClient.download_export() method to address the issue of empty logs.

  • SAClient.clone_project() method to address the issue of having a corrupted project clone, when the source project has a keypoint workflow.

4.4.1 - July 24, 2022#

Added

  • SAClient.create_custom_fields() method to create/add new custom fields to a project’s custom field schema.

  • SAClient.get_custom_fields() method to get a project’s custom field schema.

  • SAClient.delete_custom_fields() method to remove existing custom fields from a project’s custom field schema.

  • SAClient.upload_custom_values() method to attach custom field-value pairs to items.

  • SAClient.delete_custom_values() method to remove custom field-value pairs from items.

Updated

  • The schema of classes JSON to support the new "default_value" key to set a default attribute(s) for a given attribute group.

  • SAClient.get_item_metadata() method to add a new input argument include_custom_metadata to return custom metadata in the result items.

  • SAClient.search_items() method to add a new input argument include_custom_metadata to return custom metadata in the result items.

  • SAClient.query() method to return custom metadata in the result items.

Fixed

  • SAClient class to address the system crash that occurs on instantiation via config.json file.

  • SAClient.query() method to address the issue of not returning more than 50 items.

  • SAClient.upload_annotations_from_folder_to_project() to address the issue of some fields not being auto populated after the upload is finished.

  • SAClient.get_folder_metadata(), SAClient.search_folders() to address the issue of transforming the ‘+’ sign in a folder to a whitespace.

Removed

  • superannotate.assign_images() function. Please use the SAClient.assign_items() method instead.

  • superannotate.unassign_images() function. Please use the SAClient.unassign_items() method instead.

  • superannotate.delete_images() function. Please use the SAClient.delete_items() method instead.

4.4.0 - July 03, 2022#

Added

  • superannotate.SAClient() class to instantiate team-level authentication and inheriting methods to access the back-end.

  • SAClient.download_annotations() method to download annotations without preparing an Export object.

  • SAClient.get_subsets() method to get the existing subsets for a given project.

  • SAClient.assign_items() method to assign items in a given project to annotators or quality specialists.

  • SAClient.unassign_items() method to remove assignments from items.

  • SAClient.delete_items() method to delete items in a given project.

Updated

  • JSON Schema for video annotations to version 1.0.45 to show polygon and polyline annotations.

  • SAClient.get_annotations_per_frame() method to show polygon and polyline annotations.

  • SAClient.get_annotations_per_frame() method to pick instances closer to a given frame start instead of the median.

  • SAClient.query() method to add the subset argument to support querying in a subset.

Fixed

  • SAClient.set_annotation_statuses() method to address the issue occurring with more than 500 items.

  • SAClient.get_annotations() method to address the PayloadError occurring with more than 20000 items.

  • SAClient.get_annotations() method to address the missing 'duration' and 'tags' keys for newly uploaded and unannotated videos.

  • SAClient.get_annotations_per_frame() method to address missing 'duration' and 'tags' keys for newly uploaded and unannotated videos.

  • SAClient.get_annotations_per_frame() method to address the wrong classId value for unclassified instances.

Removed

  • superannotate.init() function. Please instantiate superannotate.SAClient() class to authenticate.

  • superannotate.set_image_annotation_status() function. Please use the SAClient.set_annotation_statuses() method instead.

  • superannotate.set_images_annotations_statuses() function. Please use the SAClient.set_annotation_statuses() method instead.

4.3.4 - May 22, 2022#

Updated

  • JSON Schema for video annotations to version x to reflect point annotations.

  • superannotate.download_export() function to preserve SA folder structure while downloading to S3 bucket.

  • superannotate.get_item_metadata() function to have string type values instead of int type for the approval_status key.

  • superannotate.get_item_metadata() function to change the value for the path key in the item metadata from project/folder/item format to project/folder.

  • superannotate.get_item_metadata() function to add the is_pinned key in the returned metadata.

  • superannotate.clone_project() function to have NotStarted project status for the newly created project.

Fixed

  • superannotate.query() function to address the missing value for the path key.

  • superannotate.import_annotation() function to address the extension issue with JPEG files while converting from VOC to SA.

  • superannotate.import_annotation() function to address int type pointlabels in the converted JSON from COCO to SA.

  • superannotate_get_annotations() & superannotate.add_annotation_comment_to_image() to address the issue with asyncio occurring on Windows.

  • superannotate.set_image_annotation_status() function add a deprecation warning.

  • superannotate.set_images_annotation_statuses() function add a deprecation warning.

Removed

  • share_projects() function.

  • superannotate.attach_image_urls_to_project() function. Please use the superannotate.attach_items() function instead.

  • superannotate.attach_document_urls_to_project() function. Please use the superannotate.attach_items() function instead.

  • superannotate.attach_video_urls_to_project() function. Please use the superannotate.attach_items() function instead.

  • superannotate.copy_images() function. Please use the superannotate.copy_items() function instead.

  • superannotate.move_images() function. Please use the superannotate.move_items() function instead.

4.3.3 - May 01 2022#

Added

  • attach_items() function to link items (images, videos, and documents) from external storages to SuperAnnotate using URLs.

  • copy_items() function to copy items (images, videos, and documents) in bulk between folders in a project.

  • move_items() function to move items (images, videos, and documents) in bulk between folders in a project.

  • set_annotation_statuses() function to change the annotation status of items (images, videos, and documents) in bulk.

Updated

  • aggregate_annotations_as_df() function now supports Text Projects.

Fixed

  • validate_annotations() function to accept only numeric type values for the points field.

  • prepare_export() function to address the issue when the entire project is prepared when a wrong folder name is provided.

  • search_team_contributors() function to address the error message when email parameter is used.

  • get_item_metadata() to address the issue with approved/disapproved items.

Removed

  • get_project_and_folder_metadata() function.

  • get_image_metadata() function. Please use get_item_metadata() instead.

  • search_images() function. Please use search_items() instead.

  • search images_all_folders() function. Please use search_items() instead.

4.3.2 - April 10 2022#

Added

  • query() function to run SAQuL queries via SDK.

  • search_items() function to search items by various filtering criteria for all supported project types. search_images() and search_images_all_folders() functions will be deprecated.

  • get_item_metadata() function to get item metadata for all supported project types. get_image_metadata() will be deprecated.

Updated

  • search_projects() function to add new parameter that gives an option to filter projects by project status.

  • get_annotation_per_frame() function to add a unique identifier for each annotation instance.

Fixed

  • pixel annotations to address the issue with the hex code.

  • sa.validate_annotations() function to address the incorrect error message.

  • create_project_from_metadata() function to address the issue with instructions.

Removed

  • get_image_annotations() function. Please use get_annotations()

  • upload_images_from_public_urls() function.

4.3.1 - March 20 2022#

Added

  • get_integrations() to list all existing integrations with cloud storages.

  • attach_items_from_integrated_storage() to attach items from an integrated cloud storage.

  • upload_priority_scores() to set priority scores for a given list of items.

Updated

  • JSON Schema to version 1.0.40 to add instance type differentiation for text annotations and "exclude" key for subtracted polygon instances for image annotations.

  • validate_annotations() to validate text and image annotations based on JSON schema version 1.0.40.

  • get_annotations() to get annotation instances based on JSON schema version 1.0.40.

  • prepare_export() to prepare for the download annotations with based on JSON schema version 1.0.40.

  • upload_annotations_from_folder_to_project() & upload_preannotations_from_folder_to_project() to handle upload based on JSON schema version 1.0.40.

  • create_project() to add "status" key in returned metadata.

  • get_project_metadata() to add "status" key.

  • create_project_from_project_metadata() to make "description" key not required.

  • clone_project() to add generic "description".

Fixed

  • sa.get_annotations_per_frame() to take correct attributes.

  • sa.get_annotations_per_frame() & get_annotations() to eliminate duplicate instances.

4.3.0 - Feb 27 2022#

Added

  • get_annotations to load annotations for the list of items.

  • get_annotations_per_frame to generate frame by frame annotations for the given video.

Updated

  • get_image_annotations() to reference get_annotations().

  • create_annotation_class() to add class_type in parameters to specify class type on creation.

  • create_annotation_classes_from_classes_json() to handle class type in classes JSON.

  • search_annotation_classes() to return class type in metadata.

  • upload_annotations_from_folder_to_project() to handle tag annotations.

  • upload_preannotations_from_folder_to_project() to handle tag annotations.

  • upload_image_annotations() to handle tag annotations.

  • validate_annotations() to validate vector annotation schema with tag instances.

  • aggregate_annotations_as_df() to handle tag annotations in annotations df.

  • class_distribution() to handle class distribution of tag instances.

  • upload_images_from_public_urls() for deprecation log.

Fixed

  • upload_images_from_folder_to_project() to upload images without invalid rotation.

  • upload-annotations CLI to upload annotations to specified folder.

  • create_project_from_metadata() to setup image quality and workflow from given metadata.

  • get_project_metadata() to return information on project contributors.

  • get_project_metadata() to return number of completed images in project root.

  • get_project_workflow() to return className in project workflow.

  • file handler permissions in GColab at import stage of the package.

4.2.9 - Jan 30 2022#

Added

  • superannotate_schemas as a stand alone package on annotation schemas.

Updated

  • upload_annotations_from_folder_to_project() to reference the validate_annotations().

  • upload_videos_from_folder_to_project() to remove code duplications.

  • clone_project() to set upload state of clone project to initial.

Fixed

  • validate_annotations() to fix rotated bounding box schema.

Removed

  • Third party logs from logging mechanism.

4.2.8 - Jan 9 2022#

Added

  • invite_contributers_to_team() for bulk team invite.

  • add_contributors_to_project() for bulk project sharing.

Updated

  • upload_images_from_folder_to_project() for non existing S3 path handling.

  • upload_annotations_from_folder_to_project() for template name and class processing on template annotation upload.

  • add_annotation_comment_to_image() for unrecognized author processing.

  • add_annotation_point_to_image() for valid point addition on empty state.

  • add_annotation_bbox_to_image() for valid bbox addition on empty state.

  • add_annotation_comment_to_image() for valid comment addition on empty state.

Fixed

  • superannotatecli upload_images to accept default list of image extensions.

Removed

  • invite_contributor_to_team() use invite_contributors_to_team() instead.

4.2.7 - Dec 12 2021#

Added

  • Logging mechanism.

Updated

  • Cloning projects with attached URLs.

  • Improve relation between image status and annotations.

  • Deprecate functions of zero usage.

Fixed

  • Small bug fix & enhancements.

4.2.6 - Nov 21 2021#

Added

  • Validation schemas for annotations.

  • Dataframe aggregation for video projects.

Fixed

  • Minor bug fixes and enhancements.

4.2.4 - Nov 2 2021#

Fixed

  • Minor bug fixes and enhancements.

4.2.3 - Oct 31 2021#

Fixed

  • Minor bug fixes and enhancements.

4.2.2 - Oct 22 2021#

Fixed

  • Minor bug fixes and enhancements.

4.2.1 - Oct 13 2021#

Fixed

  • init functionality.

  • upload_annotation functionality.

4.2.0 - Oct 10 2021#

Added

  • delete_annotations() for bulk annotation delete.

Updated

  • Project/folder limitations.

Fixed

  • Refactor and major bug fix.

4.1.9 - Sep 22 2021#

Added

  • Text project support.

4.1.8 - Aug 15 2021#

Added

  • Video project release.

4.1.7 - Aug 1 2021#

Fixed

  • Video upload refinements.

4.1.6 - Jul 19 2021#

Added

  • Training/Test data with folder structure.

  • Token validation.

Updated

  • Add success property on mixpanel events.

Fixed

  • Upload template enhancements.

4.1.5 - Jun 16 2021#

Added

  • Folder assignment.

Updated

  • COCO keypoint enhancements.

4.1.4 - May 26 2021#

Added

  • Mixpanel Integration.

Updated

  • Image upload enhancements.

  • Video upload enhancements.

  • Annotation upload enhancements.

  • Consensus enhancements.

  • Image copy/move enhancements.

  • COCO import/export enhancements.

  • AWS region enhancements.

4.1.3 - Apr 19 2021#

Added

  • Folder limitations.

4.1.2 - Apr 1 2021#

Fixed

  • Video upload to folder.

4.1.1 - Mar 31 2021#

Added

  • Attach image URLs.

4.1.0 - Mar 22 2021#

Added

  • Folder structure on platform.

4.0.1 - Mar 15 2021#

Updated

  • The FPS change during video upload has more stable frame choosing algorithm now.

4.0.0 - Feb 28 2021#

Updated

  • Improved image storage structure on platform, which requires this upgrade in SDK. This change in platform is backward incompatible with previous versions of SDK.

Changelog not maintained before version 4.0.0.