# cloud-annotations/cloud-annotations

🐝 A fast, easy and collaborative open source image annotation tool for teams and individuals.

Repository: https://github.com/cloud-annotations/cloud-annotations
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/cloud-annotations
Homepage: https://vision.skills.network
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: training, machine-learning, tensorflow, hacktoberfest, cloud-annotations, ibm-cloud, label-images, detection
Last push: 2022-07-12T17:41:45+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2773, "days_push": 1513, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2678, forks 444 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:09.914314+00:00)

## What it is
Cloud Annotations is a collaborative open-source image annotation tool for creating labeled training datasets for object detection and classification. Its hosted version is no longer available, so it must be run locally via the experimental Iris project.

## Use cases
- label images for object detection training
- annotate bounding boxes on images for a dataset
- collaborative image labeling for a team
- create training data for a computer vision model
- label images for TensorFlow training

## When to choose
- you need a free, self-hostable image annotation tool for teams
- you want to prepare labeled image datasets for object detection or classification

## When to avoid
- you want a hosted, ready-to-use annotation service - the hosted version is discontinued
- you need actively maintained software with recent updates
- you need annotation for video, audio, or text rather than images

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: image-processing, computer-vision, machine-learning
- domain: computer-vision, machine-learning, image-processing
- platform: self-hosted
- tags: image-annotation, labeling, object-detection, collaboration, training-data, web-server, nodejs

## Member repositories
- cloud-annotations/cloud-annotations (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:09.914314+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:17:58.474860+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/cloud-annotations/cloud-annotations (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:09.914314+00:00, sha 3d919373bba8)
  - homepage: https://vision.skills.network (fetched 2026-08-29T10:00:37.458898+00:00, sha 7af37e697444)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.