2023
Product Updates and Announcements 2023
- Threshold Brush Improvements: The threshold brush feature for Bitmasks has been upgraded to provide more flexibility when choosing a threshold for your label. RGB (Red, Green, Blue) and HSV (Hue, Saturation, Value) thresholds can be applied, allowing you to target specific color ranges with ease. You can also preview your work in transparent and inverted modes in addition to B/W (black and white).
- Bitmask Lock: You can now control how Bitmask labels overlap, ensuring that once a label is created, subsequent Bitmasks do not cover it.
- LLM Automated Labeling: Integration with a Vision-Language Model (VLM) tool enables automatic application of classification labels. All you have to do is define a range of frames for labels to be applied, and the VLM takes care of the rest - prompts are automatically generated based on your ontology. For access and more information, please contact support@encord.com.
- Advanced Editor Timeline: The new Editor Timeline simplifies your interaction with instances and objects. It now allows you to select and reposition objects and instances. Additionally, you can combine multiple instances into a single instance directly using the timeline. For access and more information, please contact support@encord.com.
- Task Priorities: We have introduced a priority system for tasks. Each task is assigned a priority value ranging from 0 to 100, ensuring that the most impactful tasks get the attention they deserve.
- DICOM Decoder: We introduced a new DICOM decoder to greatly enhance the handling of DICOM files across various browsers. This advancement offers improved performance, and extensive support for a wide range of imaging formats, eliminating any need to pre-process your DICOM files. For access and more information, please contact support@encord.com.
- Edit Review: Reviewers can now edit annotations directly instead of outright rejecting them. This enhances the efficiency of the review process by allowing immediate corrections, thereby saving time.
- Label versioning: Saving label versions enables the creation of snapshots for specific subsets of labels, which can be exported or referenced in the future. This allows you to track changes over time, enhancing quality control and offering improved oversight of annotators’ work.
- Label Export: All label actions are now taken in the Labels tab where you can conveniently export the latest state of your labels as well as previously snapshotted label versions.
- Improved Composer UI: Enhancements to the Workflow Composer include a smoother experience in building Workflows and Templates. Components are now connected with colored, non-overlapping lines for clearer visualization of Workflows - making the composer more user friendly by reducing confusion and the possibility of errors while setting up a Workflow.
- Pixelated Scaling: The Pixelated scaling feature prevents browsers from automatically smoothing edges when zooming into a frame or image, helping annotators create precise and pixel-perfect annotations.
- Bitmask Updates: The improved Threshold brush tool now supports RGB and HSV thresholds. A new feature highlights pixels above the threshold in white for clearer previews - improving annotation accuracy, especially for darker images.
- SAM Updates: SAM (Segment Anything Model) is now available for the Bitmask annotation type, providing a convenient way of applying bitmask annotations.
- [Improved Performance]: Enhanced Label Editor performance now accommodates larger volumes of labels. For access and more information, please contact support@encord.com.
- AI Help Bot: The AI Help Bot is fully integrated into the Encord platform, offering immediate assistance for your queries without the need to leave the platform. We even use it internally when we have questions about our platform.
- Encord Labs: Encord Labs offers select customers advanced and Beta features. For access and more information, please contact support@encord.com.
- Annotating on Different Tiles: Seamlessly switch annotation focus while preserving tiling layout.
- DICOM Zooming: Upgrades to the DICOM label editor provide a smoother experience when zooming.
- Strict Review: The new Strict review setting prevents tasks from auto-submit when labels are processed. See our documentation for details on implementation, as well as suggested use-cases.
- Change Review Judgment: Reviewers can now revert their actions to make adjustments to one or more label instance reviews.
- Session and Data Tab Alignment: Only tasks listed in the Data tab are displayed in the Label Editor, even when the list has been filtered.
- New notifications UI: Notifications appear automatically when performing actions such as exporting labels.
- Encord Active: Performance and stability improvements.
- Benchmark QA: Benchmark QA and training projects now support DICOM files.
- DICOM Loading: Upgrades in DICOM loading performance for a smoother experience within the label editor.
- Keypoint Annotations: You can now use keypoint annotation classes in both Benchmark QA and Annotator Training projects, expanding your annotation and annotator training possibilities.
- Bitmasks: Performance and stability enhancements for working with bitmask annotations and the brush tool!
- SAM: SAM performance improvements.
- Performance Dashboard: Experience significant speed improvements when navigating the Performance Dashboard’s details page.
- [NEW] Queue Tab: Admins and Team Managers can now manage tasks within Workflow Projects using the new Queue tab. Use the Queue to get a comprehensive overview of all stages and for easy task assignment, initiation, and release.
- UI/UX Upgrade: Enhanced Workflow Composer simplifies the workflow creation process.
- Angle Display: Polygon and polyline angles are now visible in the label editor
- Polygon Brush Tool: Usability improvements.
- Zoom Behavior: Optimized zoom behavior for DICOM.
- DICOM File Validation: Enhanced error reporting for DICOM files uploaded via the web-app. Including encoding diagnostics and identification of other upload issues.
- Import Logs: Clearer messaging for dataset imports using local data, including encoding diagnostics and identification of other upload issue(s).
- Performance: Speed and performance improvements across the Encord platform.
- SDK: Refined label upload functionalities.