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Manual drawing Manual drawing 1

It is used for semantic / instance segmentation.

Before starting, you need to select Polygon on the controls sidebar and choose the correct Label.

Highlighted "Polygon" button and open "Draw new polygon" window

  • Click Shape to enter drawing mode. There are two ways to draw a polygon: either create points by clicking or by dragging the mouse on the screen while holding Shift.
Clicking points Holding Shift+Dragging
Example of creating a polygon by clicking points Example of creating a polygon by dragging with mouse
  • When Shift isn't pressed, you can zoom in/out (when scrolling the mouse wheel) and move (when clicking the mouse wheel and moving the mouse), you can also delete the previous point by right-clicking on it.
  • You can use the Selected opacity slider in the Objects sidebar to change the opacity of the polygon. You can read more in the {{< ilink "/docs/manual/basics/CVAT-annotation-Interface/objects-sidebar#appearance" "Objects sidebar" >}} section.
  • Press N again or click the Done button on the top panel for completing the shape.
  • After creating the polygon, you can move the points or delete them by right-clicking and selecting Delete point or clicking with pressed Alt key in the context menu.