You only have to label the 3D Bounding Box once. Then you can automatically generate 2D bounding boxes for every frame of the video. So instead of annotating every frame with a 2D box, you only annotate once with a 3D box.
Though, I wonder if the whole hassle of relying on RGB-D sensor of a phone, copying from your phone and using a yet another annotation tool, is worth it, when you can instead use some tracking bbox annotation tool, which interpolates many frames.
With those, you can even annotate moving and distant objects, which I would argue is even better for generalization (since the background changes).
But I bet there are some use cases/users which can profit from it.
Yes if you only care about 2d bbox detection, a smart bounding box annotation tool has some advantages. If you need to solve 3D vision tasks, as is the case in 3D bbox detection, 3D keypoint detection, 6D pose estimation, then you need a tool that can also label the z dimension.
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Do you comprehend how the tool reduces labeling time in (4) and (5) (compared to labeling with eg CVAT) as the post claims?
You only have to label the 3D Bounding Box once. Then you can automatically generate 2D bounding boxes for every frame of the video. So instead of annotating every frame with a 2D box, you only annotate once with a 3D box.
Though, I wonder if the whole hassle of relying on RGB-D sensor of a phone, copying from your phone and using a yet another annotation tool, is worth it, when you can instead use some tracking bbox annotation tool, which interpolates many frames. With those, you can even annotate moving and distant objects, which I would argue is even better for generalization (since the background changes).
But I bet there are some use cases/users which can profit from it.
Yes if you only care about 2d bbox detection, a smart bounding box annotation tool has some advantages. If you need to solve 3D vision tasks, as is the case in 3D bbox detection, 3D keypoint detection, 6D pose estimation, then you need a tool that can also label the z dimension.
Ok, sure. I was just focusing on the 2D detection task, since that seem to be the focus of the linked product page.