Dear Professors,

   I downloaded the training data set "training.tar" from LabelMe download-webpage. But I can not unzip the files. Maybe there are some problems when zipping the files. I also downloaded the test files. There are no problems when unzipping them.

LabelMe Authors,

After filling out the form to do so, I have set about trying to run a copy of the tool locally to annotate some images as part of a project we're doing. I've spent a fair while fiddling around with the tool and setting up the web server, but when I point my browser at myserver/tool.html I only ever get the "Loading Image" message and the image itself never displays. The same thing happens if I point my browser at the local copy of the webpage. My first suspicion was a permissions issue, but I'm now fairly confident it's not that. Any suggestions as to what's causing this would be greatly appreciated.

Even I got the same problem while using LableMe as a part of my project . I solved the problem by editing apache configuration . You should allow htaccess to that site (lable Me) . Edit your apache2.conf (for ubuntu) by adding a line

"LoadModule rewrite_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_rewrite.so" and add

"<Directory [PATH OF UR LABLEME DIRECTORY] >
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews +Includes
        AllowOverride all
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
        AddType text/html .shtml
        AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml
        DirectoryIndex index.shtml
    </Directory>
"
to the file "/var/www/apache2/sites-available/default" file.


I think this should work for you (it worked for me!!) on Ubuntu . Try doing it and let me know the error in the log file , if you don't get the desired outpu!!

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:30 PM, QT - Ben Allison <
qtopic-37-E4xRZ7fZZhh@quicktopic.com> wrote:

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Edited by author 05-17-2009 02:08 PM
Hmm... I think my situation may be slightly complicated by the fact that I'm running on a machine where I don't have root access (University machine), so playing with default Apache settings isn't really an option. Assuming, however, you mean editing the httpd.conf file for my server, adding the lines of what you suggested doesn't seem to have any effect whatsoever (there are also no error messages in the logs). Furthermore, I'm confused - why enable access to the labelme site if all images, annotations and the tool are stored and running locally? It may be I just don't understand this properly!

Thanks for the help in any case.

I can understand your situation but it is quite compulsory that you should allow "htaccess" for this application to run because we are provided a file ".htaccess" in our source code which means that this tool uses its own apache settings and these will work only when u add those lines and this requires ROOT permission . I did all of this on my own laptop and this worked .

You may get error mesgs if you dont include the module mod_rewrite.so and allow htaccess . Try contacting ur college sysadmin . He may help you !!

I did some testing, and it turns out this is set up so that the tool can see the .htaccess file - I tested by putting junk in the .htaccess file and restarting the server, and lo and behold when I did I got server errors when I browsed back to the tool. So I'm running out of ideas... To confirm, there are no error messages either when running the tool, or in the apache logs. It just fails to display pictures.

Edit: after doing all this playing around, I somehow noticed that the labelme.txt file was blank. After seeing this I reinstalled the tool, and all now works! Thanks again for the assistance.

Hi- I notice that the annotation tool at the MIT site (http://labelme.csail.mit.edu/tool.html) has the great new feature that allows editing of the individual polygon vertices, but the version I just downloaded (1-14) does not. Will that feature be available for general release soon? Thanks in advance for the info, and thanks for sharing the tool.

We have recently posted the latest version of the source code for the annotation tool:

http://labelme.csail.mit.edu/Documentation/LabelMe-1-91.tar.gz

For installation instructions, please refer to the following web page:

http://labelme.csail.mit.edu/Documentation/sourceCode.html

Hi- I'm wondering if there is something different about version 1-91 that is tripping me up. I had 1-14 working fine. When I try to submit the label for a drawn polygon I get the following message "There was a problem retrieving the XML data: Internal Server Error". I've checked permissions on everything (I think) including the Annotations directory. It looks like the message comes from canvas.js, indicating that the HTTP request for XML data to submit.cgi has returned a 200 error. But I'm blanking on why that should be the case. Can you suggest anything that would help me track down what I have done wrong? Thanks.

I am now trying to extract the gist descriptor. I would like to know how to process image that are not in square size?

Rob, Did you get any leads on "There was a problem retrieving the XML data: Internal Server Error" message? I had an older version working but I am getting the same message with the 1-91 update.