In AnnotatePlus, 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 |
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| CamVid 1.0 | .txt <br />.png | Semantic <br />Segmentation | U-Net, SegNet, DeepLab, <br />PSPNet, FCN, Mask R-CNN, <br />ICNet, ERFNet, HRNet, <br />V-Net, and others. | Polygons | Not supported | Not supported |
| Cityscapes 1.0 | .txt<br />.png | Semantic<br />Segmentation | U-Net, SegNet, DeepLab, <br />PSPNet, FCN, ERFNet, <br />ICNet, Mask R-CNN, HRNet, <br />ENet, and others. | Polygons | Specific attributes | Not supported |
| COCO 1.0 | JSON | Detection, Semantic <br />Segmentation | YOLO (You Only Look Once), <br />Faster R-CNN, Mask R-CNN, SSD (Single Shot MultiBox Detector), <br /> RetinaNet, EfficientDet, UNet, <br />DeepLabv3+, CenterNet, Cascade R-CNN, and others. | Bounding Boxes, Polygons | Specific attributes | Not supported |
| COCO Keypoints 1.0 | .xml | Keypoints | OpenPose, PoseNet, AlphaPose, <br /> SPM (Single Person Model), <br />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, <br />Polylines, Points, Cuboids, <br />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, <br />Polylines, Points, Cuboids, <br />Skeletons, Ellipses, Masks. | All attributes | Supported |
| Datumaro 1.0 | JSON | Any | Any model that can decode the format. <br /> Main format in Datumaro framework | Bounding Boxes, Polygons, <br />Polylines, Points, Cuboids, <br />Skeletons, Ellipses, Masks, Tags. | All attributes | Supported |
| ICDAR<br /> Includes ICDAR Recognition 1.0, <br />ICDAR Detection 1.0, <br />and ICDAR Segmentation 1.0 <br />descriptions. | .txt | Text recognition, <br />Text detection, <br />Text segmentation | EAST: Efficient and Accurate <br />Scene Text Detector, CRNN, Mask TextSpotter, TextSnake, <br />and others. | Tag, Bounding Boxes, Polygons | Specific attributes | Not supported |
| ImageNet 1.0 | .jpg <br />.txt | Semantic Segmentation, <br />Classification, <br />Detection | VGG (VGG16, VGG19), Inception, YOLO, Faster R-CNN , U-Net, and others | Tags | No attributes | Not supported |
| KITTI 1.0 | .txt <br />.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, <br />Semantic Segmentation | U-Net, Mask R-CNN, Fast R-CNN,<br /> Faster R-CNN, DeepLab, YOLO, <br />and others. | Bounding Boxes, Polygons | Supported (Polygons) | Not supported |
| LFW 1.0 | .txt | Verification, <br />Face recognition | OpenFace, VGGFace & VGGFace2, <br />FaceNet, ArcFace, <br />and others. | Tags, Skeletons | Specific attributes | Not supported |
| Market-1501 1.0 | .txt | Re-identification | Triplet Loss Networks, <br />Deep ReID models, and others. | Bounding Boxes | Specific attributes | Not supported |
| MOT 1.0 | .txt | Video Tracking, <br />Detection | SORT, MOT-Net, IOU Tracker, <br />and others. | Bounding Boxes | Specific attributes | Supported |
| MOTS PNG 1.0 | .png<br />.txt | Video Tracking, <br />Detection | SORT, MOT-Net, IOU Tracker, <br />and others. | Bounding Boxes, Masks | Specific attributes | Supported |
| Open Images 1.0 | .csv | Detection, <br />Classification, <br />Semantic Segmentation | Faster R-CNN, YOLO, U-Net, <br />CornerNet, and others. | Bounding Boxes, Tags, Polygons | Specific attributes | Not supported |
| PASCAL VOC 1.0 | .xml | Classification, Detection | Faster R-CNN, SSD, YOLO, <br />AlexNet, and others. | Bounding Boxes, Tags, Polygons | Specific attributes | Not supported |
| Segmentation Mask 1.0 | .txt | Semantic Segmentation | Faster R-CNN, SSD, YOLO, <br />AlexNet, and others. | Polygons | No attributes | Not supported |
| VGGFace2 1.0 | .csv | Face recognition | VGGFace, ResNet, Inception, <br /> and others. | Bounding Boxes, Points | No attributes | Not supported |
| WIDER Face 1.0 | .txt | Detection | SSD (Single Shot MultiBox Detector), Faster R-CNN, YOLO, <br />and others. | Bounding Boxes, Tags | Specific attributes | Not supported |
| YOLO 1.0 | .txt | Detection | YOLOv1, YOLOv2 (YOLO9000), <br />YOLOv3, YOLOv4, and others. | Bounding Boxes | No attributes | Not supported |
| Ultralytics YOLO Detection 1.0 | .txt | Detection | YOLOv8 | Bounding Boxes | No attributes | Not supported |
| Ultralytics YOLO Segmentation 1.0 | .txt | Instance Segmentation | YOLOv8 | Polygons, Masks | No attributes | Not supported |
| Ultralytics YOLO Pose 1.0 | .txt | Keypoints | YOLOv8 | Skeletons | No attributes | Not supported |
| Ultralytics YOLO Oriented Bounding Boxes 1.0 | .txt | Detection | YOLOv8 | Bounding Boxes | No attributes | Not supported |
| Ultralytics YOLO Classification 1.0 | .jpg | Classification | YOLOv8 | Tags | No attributes | Not supported |
Exporting dataset in AnnotatePlus
Exporting dataset from Task
To export the dataset from the task, follow these steps:
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Open Task.
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Go to Actions > Export task dataset.
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Choose the desired format from the list of available options.
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(Optional) Toggle the Save images switch if you wish to include images in the export.
Note: The Save images option is a paid feature.

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Input a name for the resulting
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Click OK to initiate the export.
Exporting dataset from Job
To export a dataset from Job follow these steps:
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Navigate to Menu > Export job dataset.

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Choose the desired format from the list of available options.
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(Optional) Toggle the Save images switch if you wish to include images in the export.
Note: The Save images option is a paid feature.

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Input a name for the resulting
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Click OK to initiate the export.
Data export video tutorial
For more information on the process, see the following tutorial: