Data annotation services your models can learn from Agents label the volume, and a trained person checks every edge case
Data annotation for machine learning, start to finish What Damco does, from the labeling guide to the delivered dataset
Data annotation services by data type and technique Each page covers one kind of data or one technique
- Data labeling servicesClasses and tags for vision, language, and speech models.
- Image annotation servicesBoxes, polygons, segmentation masks, and keypoints on still images.
- Video annotation servicesObjects tracked frame by frame, with poses and actions.
- Text annotation servicesEntities, categories, sentiment, and relations in documents and chat.
- 2D bounding box annotationTight rectangles around every object your detector must find.
- 3D point cloud annotationCuboids and point labels on lidar scans for driving and robotics.
- Content moderation servicesPosts, images, and videos reviewed against your community rules.
How our data annotation outsourcing works Five steps from a sample of your data to batches on schedule
- Week 1Agree the guideWe label a sample with you and write down the rules it teaches.
- Week 2Run a pilot batchYou review a pilot batch, and we fix the guide where it was unclear.
- From week 3Label at volumeAgents pre-label every item, and reviewers decide each one they flag.
- Every batchCheck and sign offA second reviewer audits a sample, and the batch owner signs off.
- Every batchLearn from correctionsEach correction becomes an example, so fewer items need a person next time.
When outsourcing data annotation is the right fit And when an annotation tool or your own team is the better choice
A good fit when
- Your engineers spend days labeling instead of training models
- You need thousands of items a week, labeled the same way
- Your data needs reviewers who know the domain, such as claims or invoices
Look elsewhere when
- You label a few hundred items once, and a tool is enough
- Only your own specialists may see the data, by law or contract
- You want labels without a written guide or a way to check them
Data annotation for AI and machine learning in detail Why it matters, the techniques we use, and the industries we serve
Why data annotation decides model accuracy
A supervised model learns only what its labels teach it. If two annotators box the same car differently, the model learns that both are right, and its predictions drift.
Annotated data is the ground truth your team measures the model against. It decides whether search results are relevant, a voice assistant hears the right word, or a claims model reads the right field.
Data annotation techniques that power your models
We pick the technique from what the model has to do, not from what the tool offers. A detector needs boxes, a driving model needs exact edges, and a support bot needs intents and entities.
- Bounding boxes to locate objects
- Semantic segmentation to classify every pixel
- Polygons for irregular shapes such as trees and signs
- Named entity recognition for names, places, and dates in text
- Sentiment tags for opinions in reviews and chat
- Audio transcription with speaker and sound tags
How agents and people share the annotation work
Agents now draw most first-pass labels well, and they're fast. They still miss the item that sits outside the guide, such as a half-hidden pedestrian, a sarcastic review, or a form with two names on it.
So every item an agent is unsure of goes to a trained reviewer, who decides it and writes down the reason. One named batch owner on our team checks the audit sample and answers for the batch's accuracy.
Data annotation services for each industry
We annotate data for teams building models in automotive and robotics, retail and ecommerce, healthcare, finance, insurance, legal work, and GIS mapping. Each has its own edge cases, so each guide is written with your domain experts.
- Traffic signals, lanes, and pedestrians for driver assistance
- Products and attributes for retail search and recommendations
- Fields in claims and policies for insurance models
- Clauses and parties in contracts for legal review
- Transactions tagged for fraud and credit risk models
- Roads, buildings, and land use in aerial images for GIS maps
The case for outsourcing data annotation services
An in-house annotation team means hiring, training, and managing people for work that rises and falls with each model release. Outsourcing turns that into a price per label and a delivery date.
You keep control through the guide and the audit. Your engineers spend their week on the model, and the labeled data arrives in the format your pipeline reads, such as COCO JSON, YOLO, or CSV.
Keeping your training data secure
We agree with you where the data is stored, who may see it, and when it's deleted. Access is limited to the people working on your batch, and you can ask for the access log at any time.
Questions about data annotation services What buyers ask before they send us their first batch
How quickly can I get annotated data?
It depends on the volume, the technique, and how many edge cases your data has. We agree the date for a pilot batch before we start, and a weekly volume once you've checked the pilot.
Do you offer industry-specific data annotation services for machine learning?
Yes. We write a guide for your domain with your experts, and the reviewers who decide edge cases are trained on it. Insurance claims, retail catalogs, and driving scenes each get their own guide.
Do you take on large-scale data annotation projects?
Yes. Agents carry most of the volume, so a larger project mostly adds reviewers for the items they flag. We split the work into batches, and each batch has one owner who answers for it.
How is pricing structured for data annotation projects?
We price per label, per item, or per hour for expert review, depending on the technique. The price comes from your pilot batch, so it reflects how hard your data really is.
What's the difference between data annotation and data labeling?
The terms overlap. Labeling usually means giving an item a class or a tag, and annotation also covers drawing boxes, masks, and points or marking spans of text. We do both, and our data labeling page covers classification work in more depth.
Send us a sample of the data to label
Tell us what the model must learn, and we'll reply with how we'd run the pilot batch and the price per label.