Video Annotation

Frame-accurate video labeling that stays consistent across the whole sequence – object tracking, segmentation, pose and action labelling, delivered at a cost you can plan around.

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.

1. Video Semantic Segmentation 2. Polygon & Instance Tracking 3. Object Tracking & Bounding Boxes 4. Multi-Camera & Egocentric Video 5. Video Data Collection 6. Keypoint & Pose Annotation 6. Temporal Event Tagging
Semantic Segmentation

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.

Aya Data's expert team accelerates and supports your ML journey by extracting real-time data from images and videos for your Semantic Segmentation projects.
Polygon & Instance Tracking

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.

Aya Data's expert team accelerates and supports your ML journey by extracting real-time data from images and videos for your Medical Image Annotation (DICOM) projects.
Object Tracking & Bounding Boxes

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.

Aya Data's expert team accelerates and supports your ML journey by extracting real-time data from images and videos for your 3D Cuboid Annotation projects.
Multi-Camera & Egocentric Video

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.

Aya Data's expert team accelerates and supports your ML journey by extracting real-time data from images and videos for your 3D Polygon Annotation.
Video Data Collection

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.

Aya Data's expert team accelerates and supports your ML journey by extracting real-time data from images and videos for your 3D Instance Segmentation.
Keypoint & Pose Annotation

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.

Aya Data's expert team accelerates and supports your ML journey by extracting real-time data from images and videos for your Keypoint & Landmark Annotation.
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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.

Aya Data's expert team accelerates and supports your ML journey by extracting real-time data from images and videos for your Image Classification & Tagging.
Quality Assurance

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

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We provide high-quality data annotation services across a range of industries and use cases.

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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.

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  • Innovative solutions for complex challenges
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    Frequently Asked Questions

    How do you maintain consistency across long video sequences?
    Through taxonomy agreed before annotation, annotator calibration on your own footage, QA at sequence level rather than sampled frames, interpolation auditing to catch mid-interval drift, and cross-view reconciliation for multi-camera setups. Consistency is enforced structurally rather than left to annotator memory.
    What is object tracking in video annotation?
    Object tracking assigns each object a persistent identity across frames, so the model learns that the vehicle in frame 100 and frame 500 is the same vehicle. The difficulty is maintaining that identity through occlusions, when objects leave and re-enter the frame, and across scene changes.
    Can you annotate multi-camera or egocentric video?
    Yes. For synchronised camera arrays we reconcile instance IDs across views as a distinct QA step before delivery. We also work with egocentric footage from head-mounted and wrist-mounted capture, which is increasingly used in robotics and wearable AI training.
    Can you handle long-form video that runs hours rather than minutes?
    Yes. Our largest single video programme covered 5,000 hours of surveillance footage. Long-form work is a scheduling and calibration problem more than a technical one - annotator drift over weeks is the real risk, which is why we re-calibrate against gold-standard sequences throughout a programme rather than only at the start.
    Do you handle medical and surgical video?
    Yes - surgical phase recognition, instrument tracking, endoscopy and ultrasound video. Clinical programmes are reviewed by credentialed specialists rather than generalist annotators, and we operate to HIPAA-aligned standards with audit trails and access controls.
    Which video formats do you support?
    MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV, WebM, ProRes, H.264 and H.265, and image sequences, at any frame rate including variable and high-speed footage. We deliver in COCO, YOLO, Pascal VOC, CVAT XML, MOT Challenge format, timestamped JSON, CSV event logs, DICOM-SR, or your custom schema.
    Can you collect video data as well as annotate it?
    Yes. Where the footage doesn't exist, we capture it - scripted and unscripted, in field conditions, including egocentric and POV capture for robotics and wearable AI. Our West Africa operation gives access to environments and conditions that are difficult to source elsewhere.
    Which annotation tools do you use?
    We are platform agnostic and will work in your environment, ours, or a partner platform. We are an accredited V7 partner and work regularly in Labelbox, CVAT and Encord. There is no requirement to adopt proprietary tooling to work with us.
    How do you measure video annotation quality?
    At two levels. Frame level: IoU for bounding boxes and Dice for segmentation. Sequence level: identity consistency across tracks, and temporal IoU for action boundaries. We report these separately by task type rather than combining them into a single accuracy figure, because a dataset can score well frame by frame while failing at sequence level.
    Do you offer a free trial?
    Yes. Send one representative clip and we'll annotate it to your guidelines at no cost, returning it with a consistency report. If you're evaluating several vendors, give each the same clip - it's the only reliable way to compare.

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