Need video annotation services that ensure full-sequence consistency? Aya Data provides managed video labelling for AI teams in the UK, US, Europe, and the Middle East and Africa – covering object tracking, semantic segmentation, pose estimation, action recognition, and temporal event tagging. Every project emphasizes frame-to-frame accuracy, sequence-level review, and clear upfront frame budgets.
What is Video Annotation
Video annotation is the process of labeling objects, actions and events across the frames of a video sequence so a machine learning model can learn to recognise them over time. It differs from image annotation in one decisive respect: the same object must keep the same identity from frame to frame.That sounds simple and is where most video programmes fail. An object leaves the frame and re-enters – is it the same instance? A pedestrian passes behind a van for forty frames – does the track survive the occlusion? An action boundary shifts by three frames between annotators – does the model learn a blurred definition of when the action starts?These failures are invisible frame by frame and severe at sequence level. A dataset can pass a spot check on individual frames and still teach a model the wrong thing.
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Video Annotation Services
Video is the most demanding modality in computer vision and the most expensive to annotate – a single ten-minute clip at 30fps contains 18,000 frames. Getting good value from a video programme depends as much on which frames you annotate as on how well they are labelled. As a managed video annotation company, Aya Data starts by agreeing a frame budget and a tracking taxonomy with your ML team: sampling rate, occlusion handling rules, object re-entry protocol and action boundary definitions. Annotators are trained against that taxonomy and calibrated on your own footage before production begins. We report inter-annotator agreement at sequence level as well as frame level, so you can see whether identity holds across the clip – not just whether individual boxes are tight.


Video Semantic Segmentation
Per-pixel class assignment across frames, with class boundaries kept temporally stable. Used for drivable-surface detection in autonomous driving, surgical field segmentation, and scene understanding in robotics.
Polygon & Instance Tracking
Per-frame contours with instance identity held across the sequence, for objects whose shape matters – deformable items, angled vehicles, produce on a moving belt. Used where a bounding box captures too much background to be useful.
Object Tracking & Bounding Boxes
Frame-by-frame object annotation with a consistent instance ID maintained through occlusions, re-entries and scene changes. The highest-throughput video technique, used for detection, counting and trajectory analysis.


Multi-Camera & Egocentric Video
Cross-view identity matching across synchronised camera arrays, plus first-person footage from head-mounted and wrist-mounted capture. Instance IDs are reconciled across views before delivery.


Video Data Collection
Where the footage doesn’t exist yet, we capture it – scripted and unscripted, in field conditions, across our West Africa operation and partner networks. Includes egocentric and POV capture for robotics and wearable AI.


Keypoint & Pose Annotation
Skeletal and landmark annotation tracked across frames for human pose estimation, gait and biomechanical analysis, sports performance, and animal behaviour studies – with joint consistency maintained through partial occlusion.


Temporal Event Tagging
Frame-level markers for discrete events – contact, phase transition, scene cut, anomaly, hand-off. Used in surgical phase recognition, sports analytics, manufacturing inspection and incident detection.
How We Measure and Maintain Annotation Quality
Most providers quote a single accuracy figure. That number is almost never defined, and it hides the thing that actually determines whether your model works: whether different annotators labelled the same
Guidelines before annotation
We build the annotation guideline with your ML team before labeling starts, including an explicit edge-case taxonomy. Most quality failures are guideline failures, not annotator failures.
Specialist annotator sourcing
Annotators are recruited and trained by domain and modality −medical imaging, agricultural imagery, automotive scenes −rather than assigned from a general pool.
Tiered review with adjudication
Tiered review with adjudication <copy> Every batch passes a structured review. Ambiguous cases go to specialist validation. Where annotators disagree, adjudication resolves it rather than averaging it away.
Measured agreement, reported openly
We track Cohen's Kappa for categorical tasks and Dice coefficient for segmentation, reported by annotator and task type −not as a project average.
Industries We Serve
We provide high-quality data annotation services across a range of industries and use cases.
Agriculture
Autonomous Vehicles
Financial Services


Use Cases
Discover how AI-powered video annotation advances autonomous driving, security, surgical AI and robotics through consistent object tracking across frames, precise action recognition, and temporal event detection that holds up across full-length sequences.




Autonomous Driving
Tracks vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists across frames with consistent identity through occlusions, enabling safe navigation in complex traffic scenarios.
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Surgical and Medical Video
Segments surgical phases, tracks instruments and annotates endoscopy and ultrasound footage, reviewed by credentialed clinical specialists.
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Robotics
Labels manipulation and grasp sequences from egocentric and fixed-camera footage, training robots to learn tasks from demonstrated action.
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Sports and Media
Tracks players, ball and events frame by frame for performance analytics, biomechanics, automated highlights and sponsorship brand detection.
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Retail Analytics
Analyses shopper movement, dwell time and shelf interaction from in-store video to inform layout, stock decisions and loss prevention.
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Logistics and Warehousing
Tracks packages and handling actions through loading, sorting and dispatch to automate throughput monitoring and damage detection.
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Film and Television Production
Detects people, vehicles and objects of interest in surveillance and satellite imagery for enhanced situational awareness.
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Selected Case Studies
We help businesses of all sizes effectively navigate their AI journey.
Accelerating Solar Lead Qualification with AI-Powered Geospatial Analysis
Driving Sponsorship ROI Through AI-Powered Brand Detection
Organising Fashion for the AI Era
How AI is Preserving Cemeteries and Heritage Sites
Smart Data Transforms Strawberry Harvesting
Vehicle Damage Detection Speeds Claims
Secure 3D Medical Data Annotation Solutions
Infrastructure Damage Detection Made Precise
Satellite Analysis for Environmental Protection
E-Scooter Detection for Autonomous Vehicles
Advanced Retail Security Through AI
Police Radio Transcription At Scale
Expert Medical Image Data Labeling
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