Video Annotation BASICS

It's designed for beginners. No prior AI knowledge or coding required. Video labeling assumes some intuition about image annotation, but you don't need to have completed Image Annotation Basics first; this course covers the foundations from scratch.

The added dimension is time. Instead of answering 'what's in this frame?', you're answering 'what's in this frame, and what happens across frames'. You track objects as they move, mark when events start and end, and keep identity consistent so the model knows object #3 in frame 30 is the same one from frame 10. That temporal consistency is the skill that separates video annotators from image ones.

Self-paced theory lessons and an online knowledge assessment on the e-learning platform. The Basics tier is focused on understanding the conventions of video annotation: classification, temporal segmentation, object tracking across frames, and activity annotation. There is no hands-on work with annotation tools in this course; that comes in the paid Video Labeling Essentials course.

The course is free, but the certificate is not — claiming it is optional and costs a small fee. It's verifiable proof that you've completed the self-paced course and passed the online knowledge assessment. Useful as foundation evidence on a CV or LinkedIn profile. It does not mean you've been trained to production standards; the paid Video Labeling Essentials course is the hands-on path toward that. Essentials-level courses make up the Certified Data Annotator (CDA) programme.

Two natural directions from here. To broaden your foundation, the Data Annotation Basics (DAB) programme has free courses on image, audio, text, segmentation, and 3D point cloud, all at the same level as this one. To go deeper into video annotation specifically, the paid Video Labeling Essentials course is the next level up: online sessions with an industry trainer, access to the labeling tools used in production, ongoing support, and a graded final assessment. The Essentials-level courses make up the Certified Data Annotator (CDA) programme.

You have three months to complete the course, counted from the end date of your first course run. The deadline is fixed and doesn't reset if you move to a later run.

Yes — you're automatically enrolled in the run you choose, and you can move to another scheduled run of the same course up to twice from your dashboard. Your payment carries over and your completion deadline stays pinned to your first run's end date.