YoloV3 Annotation Tool (for custom data)

Michael Chan
Analytics Vidhya
3 min readAug 6, 2019

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Yooo Lo guys, hope y’ all having a nice day, in this posting I’ll be showing a bbox annotation tool outputting YoloV3 format labels.

But before that, if you are interested in seeing in what context you can use this annotation tool, I would recommend you to check out my other papers linked below. This paper is among multiples that constitute an entire project. (Tip: you can always contact for any sort of request or help, I most of the times answer under 5 hours <cause, depending on your timezone>)

As a general prerequisite, you would need to have the following

  • python3
  • Tkinter

!(from the commands it is implicit that this post is targeting Mac OSX and Linux users, you will have to tweak by yourself for Windows or ask me)

Now in order to get the source code simply do: git clone https://github.com/miki998/YoloV3_Annotation_Tool

If you wish to do annotation for some specific objects, go to classes.txt and simply modify each line corresponding to a different class of objects for your annotations. (

Alright let’s get to the main topic, after getting in the YoloV3_Annotation_Tool directory, you’ll simply have to run the main.py in the following ways (be sure you have the same files as I do on GitHub (not…

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