Posts by Kari Kinnunen

In its first 41 days, DeelabAcademy.com recorded 185 course signups from 112 learners, with weekly signups tripling in late July. Course ratings average 4.78/5 from 136 reviews. A summary of the first month: who signed up, what they took, and what they said.

Every chatbot reply, spam filter and translated sentence rests on text that a human once labelled. Text labeling marks entities, sentiment, intent and structure in raw language so a model can learn to work with it.

To a computer, sound is just numbers; audio labelling is how humans add the meaning machines learn from. Annotators segment recordings, transcribe speech and tag speakers, emotions and sound events, producing the training data behind voice assistants, captions and smart devices.

Video labeling teaches AI to track objects, mark event boundaries, and recognise actions across a timeline. It underpins autonomous vehicles, sports analytics, security systems, and quality control on production lines.

Point cloud labeling is one of the fastest-growing skills in data annotation — powering self-driving cars, robotics, and 3D mapping. This beginner's guide explains what point clouds are, how annotation works, the industries that rely on it, and the tools used to capture and label 3D data.

Image annotation turns ordinary pixels into training data machines can learn from. Here's what it is, where it's used, the skills and tools it takes — and how to get certified at DeeLab Academy.

Data Annotation Basics is DeeLab Academy's new free programme: six self-paced courses, one for each main type of annotation. Each teaches the principles of its discipline and is the no cost way to learn the field and find which type suits you.

Garbage in, garbage out. It sounds simple, but data quality failures have derailed billion-dollar AI projects. Here's what it means to build AI on solid annotation foundations.

Building a reliable annotation pipeline is harder than most enterprise AI teams expect. Here are seven lessons drawn from common patterns we see across the industry.