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Video Annotation Automotive Automation

Accelerating Robotics Innovation with Video Annotation

The Challenge

Our client, a long-standing partner and leader in the robotics and automotive industries, turned to DataForce to enhance its robotic assembly line through advanced video annotation. The project involved 127 videos featuring two robotic arms in operation. Each video required detailed identification of:

  • The current action performed by each robotic arm
  • The objective of that action
  • Block attributes and sub-tasks

In addition, annotators needed to predict the possible outcomes of each movement—whether the arm was approaching a component, grasping and lifting it, or placing it into position.

• • • •The Solution• • • •

DataForce leveraged its proprietary platform, a dedicated project management team, and 30 expert video labelers with prior experience in high-volume video annotation. To ensure accuracy and efficiency at scale, the team introduced several key processes:

  1. Close Client Collaboration: Established early alignment on guidelines through detailed reviews and discussions to minimize gray areas, prevent scope creep, and reduce the need for mid-project updates.
  2. Training and Qualification process: Annotators, reviewers, and project managers completed structured training that included guideline quizzes and practice annotation sets. Ongoing Q&A sessions provided continuous clarification and support.
  3. Source Data review: Conducted pre-production dataset screening to identify and remove low-quality or irrelevant videos, ensuring only suitable material was annotated.
  4. Sanity Checks and Quality Metrics: Developed automated scripts to compare annotation and review outputs, tracking errors in real time. Annotators received quality metrics for each video, enabling immediate corrections and minimizing rework.

Results

DataForce exceeded client expectations by delivering consistent, high-quality annotations with a 100% acceptance rate and no rework or revisions required. Following the completion of the initial 127-video project, the client commissioned an additional 500 videos with expanded requirements.

Thanks to DataForce’s advanced annotation process and efficient workflows, the client enhanced their algorithms, accelerated development timelines, and frequently praised our team’s problem-solving and results-driven approach—ultimately advancing their ability to navigate complex traffic scenarios.

“Thank you for the summary and for everyone’s hard work and dedication. It’s always a pleasure working with this team, and I look forward to future collaboration.”

–Associate Scientist

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