Install Vatic on Mac

Programming

Vatic is an image and video label software.

This is the tutorial for installing Vatic on your Mac. An online JS version of Vatic can be found here: https://dbolkensteyn.github.io/vatic.js/

Reference:

https://glentimemaker.github.io/Install-and-Use-Vatic-Annotation-Tool/

https://github.com/cvondrick/vatic (Offcial)

Following steps are tested on Mac OS. For windows system, you may need to install some command lines and add them to PATH.

String <???***???> should be replaced by your own address/filename.

1.Install Docker

Install Docker from https://www.docker.com/

Register, Login, Start Docker.

2.Creat Local Folder

Creat a folder named “data”. Put videos inside, then creat a folder named “frames” inside the folder “data”.

Open terminal, cd to your “data”‘s parent folder. Do following:

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DATA_DIR=`pwd`/data/
mkdir -p $DATA_DIR

3.Start Vatic Server, MySQL and Apache

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docker run -it -p 8080:80 -v $DATA_DIR:/home/vagrant/vagrant_data jldowns/vatic-docker-contrib:0.1

/home/vagrant/start_services.sh

Then cd to the vatic path:

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cd /home/vagrant/vatic

4.Extract frames from video

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turkic extract /home/vagrant/vagrant_data/<???video_name.mp4???> /home/vagrant/vagrant_data/frames/

Now you can use turkic command to operate your videos and labels.

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~/vatic# turkic                                              
     compensate   Pay workers                                       
         delete   Deletes an already imported video                 
       donation   Report status on donations                        
           dump   Dumps the tracking data                           
          email   Email a worker                                    
        extract   Decompresses an entire video into frames          
           find   Provides a URL to fix annotations during vetting  
   formatframes   Formats existing frames                           
     invalidate   Invalidates and rewspawn tasks                    
           list   List all videos loaded                            
           load   Imports a set of video frames                     
        publish   Launch work                                       
         sample   Samples the performance by worker                 
          setup   Setup the application                             
         status   Report job status                                 
      visualize   Highlights a video sequence                       
        workers   Manage the workers

More turkic command on offcial website.

5.Load & Publish

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turkic load <???Job ID???> /home/vagrant/vagrant_data/frames/ <???LabelName1 LabelName2 LabelName3..???> --offline

6.Reopen Closed Vatic:

Reopen your Docker then cd to your folder path:

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DATA_DIR=`pwd`/data/
mkdir -p $DATA_DIR
docker run -it -p 8080:80 -v $DATA_DIR:/home/vagrant/vagrant_data jldowns/vatic-docker-contrib:0.1
/home/vagrant/start_services.sh
cd /home/vagrant/vatic