MBARI's Video Annotation and Reference System (VARS)

Important

This project is deprecated in favor of MBARI's latest M3/VARS system. We are working on a project to allow researchers or organizations to use the current generation VARS system at https://github.com/mbari-media-management/m3-quickstart. The legacy version in this repository is being maintained for organizations who are still using it.

About

The Video Annotation and Reference System (VARS) is a suite of tools developed by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute for describing, cataloging, retrieving, and viewing the visual, descriptive, and quantitative data associated with video.

Originally designed for annotating underwater video, VARS can be applied to any video dataset that requires constrained, searchable annotations.

General Info

Documentation for VARS is at https://hohonuuli.github.io/vars/

Pre-built binaries can be downloaded from Github.

Building

For the impatient:

1. Checkout VARS git clone https://github.com/hohonuuli/vars.git
2. Configure a Github security token. This is need to access custom libraries written by MBARI. Instructions are here
3. Build mvn install -P dev

More details can be found in BUILD.md