Data annotation for autonomous vehicles
Data annotation for autonomous vehicles lets a driving system see cars, people, lanes and signs by labeling camera frames and LiDAR scans. Boxes, tracks and 3D cuboids are combined in most projects.
Estimating what a driving-data job costs
75,000 cuboids overall, drawn as squares of 10,000 cuboids
That makes 75,000 cuboids across 3,000 LiDAR frames. What a team outside the US would charge, roughly:
$7,500 to $37,500
Teams abroad list between $0.10 and $0.50 for each cuboid.
Get quotes for this jobThe calculation behind this
The published low and high price for that label type gets multiplied by the label count. Another review adds 20 to 50 percent, while a US team costs two to four times the outside-US range.
Prices for lidar cuboids come from Habile Data.
Prices for bounding boxes come from Label Your Data for the low end and Habile Data for the high end.
Prices for video tracking come from Habile Data.
Prices for pixel masks come from Habile Data for the low end and GDS Online for the high end.
Prices for polygons come from AnnotationBox for the low end and Habile Data for the high end.
Driving dataset requirements
- Camera frames get boxes or masks.
- Every road user is followed across frames by tracks.
- The LiDAR point cloud gets 3D cuboids, each one matched to what the camera shows.
Vendors listing this work
Audit names explained
- SOC 2 a check by an outside auditor of how a company protects its clients' files. Type I checks a single day; Type II checks several months, so it tells you more.
- ISO 27001 a worldwide data-safety standard; an independent auditor confirms the company follows it.
- ISO 9001 checks the steps a company uses to keep its work consistent. It does not cover keeping your files safe.
- HIPAA a US law that protects patients' medical records.
- TISAX a security check that car manufacturers ask their suppliers to pass.
- GDPR the EU's data protection law.
| Company | Based in | Kinds of files | Audits and laws it names | How it prices |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scale AIscale.com | San Francisco, California | Photos, Video, Text, 3D laser scans (LiDAR), Satellite and map images, Rating AI chatbot answers | SOC 2 Type II | Per project |
| Appenappen.com | Sydney, Australia and Kirkland, Washington | Photos, Video, Text, Sound, 3D laser scans (LiDAR), Medical scans, Rating AI chatbot answers | SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR | Per project |
| TELUS Digitaltelusdigital.com | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | Photos, Text, Sound, 3D laser scans (LiDAR), Rating AI chatbot answers | SOC 2, TISAX, ISO 27001 | Per project |
| iMeritimerit.ai | San Jose, California | Photos, Video, Text, Sound, 3D laser scans (LiDAR), Medical scans, Rating AI chatbot answers | SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 9001, HIPAA, GDPR, TISAX | Per project |
| Samasama.com | San Francisco, California | Photos, Video, Text, 3D laser scans (LiDAR) | ISO 9001, ISO 27001, TISAX, GDPR | Per project |
| CloudFactorycloudfactory.com | Reading, England | Photos, Video, Text, Satellite and map images | ISO 9001, ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR | You agree a yearly budget with them and pay only for the work they finish; a few of your files labeled free as a test |
| Mindy Supportmindy-support.com | Limassol, Cyprus | Photos, Video, Text, Sound, 3D laser scans (LiDAR), Rating AI chatbot answers | SOC 2, GDPR | Per project; teams start at about 5 people working full time on your files |
| Keymakrkeymakr.com | New York, New York | Photos, Video, 3D laser scans (LiDAR) | ISO 9001, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA | Per project; a few labeled examples you can check first |
Most companies first look at a sample of your files, then give you one price for the whole job ("per project"). Fill in the short form one time and get prices back from three of them.
Common questions about data annotation for autonomous vehicles
Which vendors do labeling for driving data?
Scale AI, Appen, TELUS Digital and iMerit list driving or automotive work; so do Sama, CloudFactory, Mindy Support and Keymakr.
Can I try a vendor out before signing?
Yes. At no cost, CloudFactory will analyze a sample set, and Keymakr sends over a sample batch you can correct ahead of the full runs. Ask the others for a small paid trial job in your brief; that's standard practice with them.
Which of these vendors state ISO 27001 or SOC 2?
On their own pages, 6 out of the 8 name a SOC 2 report and 6 name ISO 27001. ISO 27001 is the international standard for managing information security; SOC 2 is an outside audit reviewing how client data is protected by a company.
Send one brief, hear from three vendors
Describe your data once and we pass it to three annotation vendors that label that kind of data, so you can compare quotes side by side.
- One short form instead of three sales calls
- Matched on data type, volume and security needs
- You choose who to talk to