diff --git a/site/content/en/docs/manual/advanced/serverless-tutorial.md b/site/content/en/docs/manual/advanced/serverless-tutorial.md index ac9483d72f29f5f1117f2d4ac7418ee642a1b92b..476a61fcd6f6df587ca0a863a3dbca5d7af8702e 100644 --- a/site/content/en/docs/manual/advanced/serverless-tutorial.md +++ b/site/content/en/docs/manual/advanced/serverless-tutorial.md @@ -6,28 +6,24 @@ weight: 32 ## Introduction -Computers have now become our partners. They help us to solve routine problems, -fix mistakes, find information, etc. It is a natural idea to use their -compute power to annotate datasets. There are multiple DL models for -classification, object detection, semantic segmentation which can do -data annotation for us. And it is relatively simple to integrate your -own ML/DL solution into CVAT. - -But the world is not perfect and we don't have a silver bullet which can -solve all our problems. Usually, available DL models are trained on public -datasets which cannot cover all specific cases. Very often you want to -detect objects which cannot be recognized by these models. Our annotation -requirements can be so strict that automatically -annotated objects cannot be accepted as is, and it is easier to annotate them -from scratch. You always need to keep in mind all these mentioned limitations. -Even if you have a DL solution which can -_perfectly_ annotate 50% of your data, it means that manual work will only be -reduced in half. - -When we know that DL models can help us to annotate data faster, the next -question is how to use them? In CVAT all such DL models are implemented -as serverless functions for the [Nuclio][nuclio-homepage] serverless platform. -And there are multiple implemented functions which can be +Leveraging the power of computers to solve daily routine problems, +fix mistakes, and find information has become second nature. It is therefore +natural to use computing power in annotating datasets. There are multiple +publicly available DL models for classification, object detection, and semantic +segmentation which can be used for data annotation. Whilst some of these publicly +available DL models can be found on CVAT, it is relatively simple to integrate your +privately trained ML/DL model into CVAT. + +With the imperfection of the world, alongside the unavailability of a silver bullet +that can solve all our problems; publicly available DL models cannot be used when we +want to detect niche or specific objects on which these publicly available models were not trained. +As annotation requirements can be sometimes strict, automatically annotated objects cannot be accepted +as it is, and it is easier to annotate them from scratch. With these limitations in mind, a DL solution +that can _perfectly_ annotate 50% of your data equates to reducing manual annotation by half. + +Since we know DL models can help us to annotate faster, how then do we use them? +In CVAT all such DL models are implemented as serverless functions using the [Nuclio][nuclio-homepage] +serverless platform. There are multiple implemented functions that can be found in the [serverless][cvat-builtin-serverless] directory such as _Mask RCNN, Faster RCNN, SiamMask, Inside Outside Guidance, Deep Extreme Cut_, etc. Follow [the installation guide][cvat-auto-annotation-guide] to build and deploy