Table 2.

List of supported annotation formats

Data	Problem	Input format	Output format
2D Images	Classification	A folder for each class of image	A folder for each class of image
			An HDF5 file [26]
			A Keras generator [12]
	Localization	Pascal VOC format [21]	Pascal VOC format
			An HDF5 file
	Detection	Pascal VOC format	Pascal VOC format
		YOLO format [27]	YOLO format
	Segmentation	A folder containing the images and their associated masks	A folder containing the images and their associated masks
			An HDF5 file
			A Keras generator
	Instance segmentation	COCO format [23]	COCO format
		JSON format from ImageJ	JSON format from ImageJ
Multi-dimensional Images	Video Classification	A folder for each class of video	A folder for each class of video
	Video Detection	Youtube BB format [28]	Youtube BB format
	Stack segmentation	Pairs of tiff files containing the stack and the associated mask	Pairs of tiff files containing the stack and the associated mask