What is missing from current CV dataset and annotation workflows?
I’m working on Daqa, a waitlist-stage workspace for teams preparing AI training datasets, and I’m trying to sanity-check the computer vision side with people who actually build image/video datasets.
The workflow I’m looking at is everything around annotation: sourcing or uploading data, profiling quality issues, cleaning/deduping, generating missing cases, labeling/reviewing, tracking provenance/license evidence, validating the dataset, and exporting in formats like COCO, YOLO, or image manifests.
I’d really value feedback on four things:
- What feature would you most want to see in a tool for this workflow?
- Does the pricing on https://daqa.ai/ make sense for CV dataset prep?
- What would you need to see before joining a waitlist or trying it?
- What tools do you use today for this use case, such as CVAT, Roboflow, Label Studio, FiftyOne, scripts/notebooks, etc., and what do they still lack?
I’m especially trying to understand whether the pain is annotation itself, or the surrounding workflow: source tracking, review, dataset versioning, validation, and clean export.