January 2025 Spotlight

Productivity is our focus for 2025. We're enhancing our sensor-fusion annotation tool to help you achieve more - whether that means reducing costs or increasing output. In this newsletter, we're introducing several new features designed to make your platform experience more efficient:

• Annotation Productivity Analytics to measure and optimize team performance
• Enhanced Checker Apps to precisely identify annotation issues
• Property Review Filters to streamline review visualization and filtering

Improving efficiency with Annotation Productivity Analytics

This new feature helps teams like yours to measure and optimize their annotation workflows with:

• Customizable point system for different annotation types
• Real-time team performance dashboard
• Quality-integrated productivity metrics
• Comprehensive team overview with 10-minute refresh intervals

Contact your customer success manager to enable this feature for your team. We'll guide you through the setup process and help you configure the system to match your specific needs.

Checker Apps: Pinpointing issues

We've upgraded our checker apps with new capabilities to make error more informative. The update introduces pin functionality that can specify exact locations of issues in both 2D and 3D environments. Plus, we've added support for validation messages that can now highlight multiple related objects simultaneously - perfect for catching issues like overlapping objects.

While this update primarily benefits checker developers for now, end users will soon experience improved error reporting and validation. The feature is ready to use in existing projects - you'll just need checker apps in place.

Property Review Filters

This tool allows you to quickly filter and visualize objects based on their classes and property values, giving you a clear overview of your annotations at a glance.

Key features include:

• Interactive filtering window for easy class and property selection
• Real-time highlighting of objects with specific properties
• Efficient keyboard navigation with tab and arrow keys
• Support for both 2D and 3D annotations

The feature will be released to production next week. It will be accessible to all users working on review and correction tasks, supporting a wide range of shapes including lines, polygons, boxes, and points in both 2D and 3D environments.

Continental's journey to faster, more flexible 3D ground truth with Kognic

Continental, a global automotive technology leader, has transformed their 3D ground truth generation process using Kognic's annotation platform. In a recent success story, Continental details how they overcame challenges in Lidar pointcloud data annotation through our flexible platform and hybrid workforce model.

Key highlights from Continental's experience:

• Successful development of perception stack for customer demos
• Streamlined labeling task management
• Enhanced efficiency in 3D ground truth creation

Read the full story.

We're continuously working to improve your annotation experience and looking forward to sharing more updates with you soon.

Best regards,

The Kognic Team