Annotation

Comprehensive rule education and product inspections by dedicated staff. Creation of large volumes of high-quality training data at an affordable and fast pace
Since establishing an annotation center at our offshore location, SANEI HYTECHS has received many inquiries from major automotive companies.
Leveraging the knowledge gained from our diverse range of previous annotations and our algorithm design expertise, we can create high-quality training data at an affordable and fast pace.
We also provide data preprocessing services, including data cleansing. This includes not only typical data cleansing such as removing missing data, but also extracting only the necessary data for improving the detection accuracy of algorithms and annotating it accordingly.

Our offshore center in Vietnam (Da Nang) began operations in 2015
Our offshore center in China (Suzhou) began operations in 2020

What is Annotation?

To develop artificial intelligence (AI), it is necessary to have problems to solve and teacher data (correct answers) for learning.
Annotation refers to the process of creating this teacher data.
*Teacher data is also known as correct data or ground truth (GT).
 
Developing current artificial intelligence requires a large amount of teacher data. For images, you need to prepare several thousand to tens of thousands in advance.
Additionally, the quality of the teacher data affects the accuracy during learning. It not only needs to be high-quality but also consistently so.

Annotation Service

Quality control

Translation and sducation of rules Annotation tasks Full inspection
Translation and sducation of rules Annotation tasks Full inspection
Our Japanese staff will build relationships with local customers, ensuring high quality and consistency throughout each process. We achieve high quality and consistency throughout every process.
 
  • Translate the rules provided by the customer on-site.
  • Educate (share) the inspection personnel and workers.
  • Questions that arise should be confirmed with the customer through QA as appropriate.
    The response content should be shared sequentially with the inspection personnel and workers.
  • Conduct a thorough on-site inspection of all products and share the results sequentially with the inspection personnel.
Information sharing

Security

We will protect highly confidential development information with a multifaceted security system that includes employee education and infrastructure improvement.

Staff training

  • Provide information security education to all workers at the start of operations.
  • Restrict entry and exit with fingerprint authentication or a card key.
  • Prohibit bringing personal items (such as smartphones, PCs, USB memory, etc.) into the development room.

Data management

  • Data is managed on a dedicated server on-premises.
  • Access rights to the data are set for workers and inspectors on a per-job basis.

Working environment

  • The workers' computer are isolated from external networks.
  • Monitoring is conducted by surveillance cameras.
  • We also have the capability to accommodate a clean room environment.

Tool development achievements

If the client does not provide or specify an annotation tool, we will use our proprietary tool, which is exclusively designed for annotating image data.
Our proprietary tool is designed solely for annotating image data. In order to work efficiently, it is equipped with the following features.
 
  • Quick check of created data
  • Object inheritance between images
  • Ability to add comments, etc.
 
We are also working on developing tools for data cleansing and management to further improve efficiency.

Annotation achievement

We have experience annotating images up to 4K resolution.
Major clients
Large automobile-related companies, social infrastructure manufacturers, and manufacturing equipment manufacturers

Workflow

01Annotation requirement confirmation

Rough estimate quotation
We will listen to your requirements and provide a rough estimate quotation for costs, timeframe, and other details.

02Trial execution

Translation and education
We will educate inspectors and workers using the translated rules, and share the information with everyone.
Data cleansing
We can accommodate your requests based on your requirements.
Annotation
The information regarding QA will be shared in real-time among the inspectors and workers.
Estimate quotation and trial results
After the trial is finished, we will give you the results for your review, and also provide a formal estimate quotation.

03Annotation work

Data cleansing
We can accommodate your requests based on your requirements.
Annotation
We will share QA information in real-time among inspectors and workers during the annotation process.
Inspection
The inspector will perform a comprehensive inspection of all products and share the inspection results in real-time with other inspectors.

04Delivery

Delivery will be made according to the customer's request, including bulk delivery or weekly delivery, as appropriate.