Export annotations and data from CVAT

List of data export formats formats supported by CVAT.

In CVAT, you have the option to export data in various formats. The choice of export format depends on the type of annotation as well as the intended future use of the dataset.

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Data export formats

The table below outlines the available formats for data export in CVAT.

Format Type Computer Vision Task Models Shapes Attributes Video Tracks
CamVid 1.0 .txt
.png
Semantic
Segmentation
U-Net, SegNet, DeepLab,
PSPNet, FCN, Mask R-CNN,
ICNet, ERFNet, HRNet,
V-Net, and others.
Polygons Not supported Not supported
Cityscapes 1.0 .txt
.png
Semantic
Segmentation
U-Net, SegNet, DeepLab,
PSPNet, FCN, ERFNet,
ICNet, Mask R-CNN, HRNet,
ENet, and others.
Polygons Specific attributes Not supported
COCO 1.0 JSON Detection, Semantic
Segmentation
YOLO (You Only Look Once),
Faster R-CNN, Mask R-CNN, SSD (Single Shot MultiBox Detector),
RetinaNet, EfficientDet, UNet,
DeepLabv3+, CenterNet, Cascade R-CNN, and others.
Bounding Boxes, Polygons Specific attributes Not supported
COCO Keypoints 1.0 .xml Keypoints OpenPose, PoseNet, AlphaPose,
SPM (Single Person Model),
Mask R-CNN with Keypoint Detection:, and others.
Skeletons Specific attributes Not supported
CVAT for images 1.1 .xml Any in 2D except for Video Tracking Any model that can decode the format. Bounding Boxes, Polygons,
Polylines, Points, Cuboids,
Skeletons, Ellipses, Masks, Tags.
All attributes Not supported
CVAT for video 1.1 .xml Any in 2D except for Classification Any model that can decode the format. Bounding Boxes, Polygons,
Polylines, Points, Cuboids,
Skeletons, Ellipses, Masks.
All attributes Supported
Datumaro 1.0 JSON Any Any model that can decode the format.
Main format in Datumaro framework
Bounding Boxes, Polygons,
Polylines, Points, Cuboids,
Skeletons, Ellipses, Masks, Tags.
All attributes Supported
ICDAR
Includes ICDAR Recognition 1.0,
ICDAR Detection 1.0,
and ICDAR Segmentation 1.0
descriptions.
.txt Text recognition,
Text detection,
Text segmentation
EAST: Efficient and Accurate
Scene Text Detector, CRNN, Mask TextSpotter, TextSnake,
and others.
Tag, Bounding Boxes, Polygons Specific attributes Not supported
ImageNet 1.0 .jpg
.txt
Semantic Segmentation,
Classification,
Detection
VGG (VGG16, VGG19), Inception, YOLO, Faster R-CNN , U-Net, and others Tags No attributes Not supported
KITTI 1.0 .txt
.png
Semantic Segmentation, Detection, 3D PointPillars, SECOND, AVOD, YOLO, DeepSORT, PWC-Net, ORB-SLAM, and others. Bounding Boxes, Polygons Specific attributes Not supported
LabelMe 3.0 .xml Compatibility,
Semantic Segmentation
U-Net, Mask R-CNN, Fast R-CNN,
Faster R-CNN, DeepLab, YOLO,
and others.
Bounding Boxes, Polygons Supported (Polygons) Not supported
LFW 1.0 .txt Verification,
Face recognition
OpenFace, VGGFace & VGGFace2,
FaceNet, ArcFace,
and others.
Tags, Skeletons Specific attributes Not supported
Market-1501 1.0 .txt Re-identification Triplet Loss Networks,
Deep ReID models, and others.
Bounding Boxes Specific attributes Not supported
MOT 1.0 .txt Video Tracking,
Detection
SORT, MOT-Net, IOU Tracker,
and others.
Bounding Boxes Specific attributes Supported
MOTS PNG 1.0 .png
.txt
Video Tracking,
Detection
SORT, MOT-Net, IOU Tracker,
and others.
Bounding Boxes, Masks Specific attributes Supported
Open Images 1.0 .csv Detection,
Classification,
Semantic Segmentation
Faster R-CNN, YOLO, U-Net,
CornerNet, and others.
Bounding Boxes, Tags, Polygons Specific attributes Not supported
PASCAL VOC 1.0 .xml Classification, Detection Faster R-CNN, SSD, YOLO,
AlexNet, and others.
Bounding Boxes, Tags, Polygons Specific attributes Not supported
Segmentation Mask 1.0 .txt Semantic Segmentation Faster R-CNN, SSD, YOLO,
AlexNet, and others.
Polygons No attributes Not supported
VGGFace2 1.0 .csv Face recognition VGGFace, ResNet, Inception,
and others.
Bounding Boxes, Points No attributes Not supported
WIDER Face 1.0 .txt Detection SSD (Single Shot MultiBox Detector), Faster R-CNN, YOLO,
and others.
Bounding Boxes, Tags Specific attributes Not supported
YOLO 1.0 .txt Detection YOLOv1, YOLOv2 (YOLO9000),
YOLOv3, YOLOv4, and others.
Bounding Boxes No attributes Not supported
YOLOv8 Detection 1.0 .txt Detection YOLOv8 Bounding Boxes No attributes Not supported
YOLOv8 Segmentation 1.0 .txt Instance Segmentation YOLOv8 Polygons, Masks No attributes Not supported
YOLOv8 Pose 1.0 .txt Keypoints YOLOv8 Skeletons No attributes Not supported
YOLOv8 Oriented Bounding Boxes 1.0 .txt Detection YOLOv8 Bounding Boxes No attributes Not supported
YOLOv8 Classification 1.0 .jpg Classification YOLOv8 Tags No attributes Not supported

Exporting dataset in CVAT

Exporting dataset from Task

To export the dataset from the task, follow these steps:

  1. Open Task.

  2. Go to Actions > Export task dataset.

  3. Choose the desired format from the list of available options.

  4. (Optional) Toggle the Save images switch if you wish to include images in the export.

    Note: The Save images option is a paid feature.

    Save images option

  5. Input a name for the resulting .zip archive.

  6. Click OK to initiate the export.

Exporting dataset from Job

To export a dataset from Job follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to Menu > Export job dataset.

    Export dataset

  2. Choose the desired format from the list of available options.

  3. (Optional) Toggle the Save images switch if you wish to include images in the export.

    Note: The Save images option is a paid feature.

    Save images option

  4. Input a name for the resulting .zip archive.

  5. Click OK to initiate the export.

Data export video tutorial

For more information on the process, see the following tutorial:


CVAT for image

How to export and import data in CVAT for image format

Datumaro

How to export and import data in Datumaro format

LabelMe

How to export and import data in LabelMe format

MOT

How to export and import data in MOT format

MOTS

How to export and import data in MOTS format

COCO

How to export and import data in COCO format

COCO Keypoints

How to export and import data in COCO Keypoints format

Pascal VOC

How to export and import data in Pascal VOC format

Segmentation Mask

How to export and import data in Segmentation Mask format

YOLO

How to export and import data in YOLO format

YOLOv8

How to export and import data in YOLOv8 formats

YOLOv8-Classification

How to export and import data in YOLOv8 Classification format

ImageNet

How to export and import data in ImageNet format

Wider Face

How to export and import data in Wider Face format

CamVid

How to export and import data in CamVid format

VGGFace2

How to export and import data in VGGFace2 format

Market-1501

How to export and import data in Market-1501 format

ICDAR13/15

How to export and import data in ICDAR13/15 format

Open Images

How to export and import data in Open Images format

Cityscapes

How to export and import data in Cityscapes format

KITTI

How to export and import data in KITTI format

LFW

How to export and import data in LFW format