Reference for ultralytics/data/annotator.py

def auto_annotate(data, det_model="yolov8x.pt", sam_model="sam_b.pt", device="", output_dir=None):
    """
    Automatically annotates images using a YOLO object detection model and a SAM segmentation model.

    This function processes images in a specified directory, detects objects using a YOLO model, and then generates
    segmentation masks using a SAM model. The resulting annotations are saved as text files.

    Args:
        data (str): Path to a folder containing images to be annotated.
        det_model (str): Path or name of the pre-trained YOLO detection model.
        sam_model (str): Path or name of the pre-trained SAM segmentation model.
        device (str): Device to run the models on (e.g., 'cpu', 'cuda', '0').
        output_dir (str | None): Directory to save the annotated results. If None, a default directory is created.

    Examples:
        >>> from ultralytics.data.annotator import auto_annotate
        >>> auto_annotate(data="ultralytics/assets", det_model="yolo11n.pt", sam_model="mobile_sam.pt")

    Notes:
        - The function creates a new directory for output if not specified.
        - Annotation results are saved as text files with the same names as the input images.
        - Each line in the output text file represents a detected object with its class ID and segmentation points.
    """
    det_model = YOLO(det_model)
    sam_model = SAM(sam_model)

    data = Path(data)
    if not output_dir:
        output_dir = data.parent / f"{data.stem}_auto_annotate_labels"
    Path(output_dir).mkdir(exist_ok=True, parents=True)

    det_results = det_model(data, stream=True, device=device)

    for result in det_results:
        class_ids = result.boxes.cls.int().tolist()  # noqa
        if len(class_ids):
            boxes = result.boxes.xyxy  # Boxes object for bbox outputs
            sam_results = sam_model(result.orig_img, bboxes=boxes, verbose=False, save=False, device=device)
            segments = sam_results[0].masks.xyn  # noqa

            with open(f"{Path(output_dir) / Path(result.path).stem}.txt", "w") as f:
                for i in range(len(segments)):
                    s = segments[i]
                    if len(s) == 0:
                        continue
                    segment = map(str, segments[i].reshape(-1).tolist())
                    f.write(f"{class_ids[i]} " + " ".join(segment) + "\n")