Concepts#

Basic concepts#

  • Dataset - A collection of dataset items, which consist of media and associated annotations.

  • Dataset item - A basic single element of the dataset. Also known as sample, entry. In different datasets, it can be an image, a video frame, a whole video, a 3d point cloud, etc. Typically, it has corresponding annotations.

Dataset path concepts#

  • Dataset path - A path to a dataset in a special format. They are supposed to specify paths to files and directories in a uniform way in the CLI.

    • Dataset path - A path to a dataset in the following format: <dataset path>:<format> - format is optional. If not specified, it will try to detect automatically

Others#

  • Transform - A transformation operation over dataset elements. Examples are image renaming, image flipping, image and subset renaming, label remapping, etc. Corresponds to the transform.