Post-annotator menus makeover (logic of filtering & displaying)
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"Video Analysis" aka "Magic Menu": From my point of view it can (or even should) remain as simple as it is. The question here is more if it has some influence on the rest of the UI. If I toggle the bounding boxes or the pose recogition I can immediately see the video overlay but not the data visualisation in the swimlane. In the last system dev meeting we said that the siwmlane should autmatically show up with the corresponding data visualisation (for example: people detection --> bboxes are shown as overlays in the video + people count lane is shown as well).
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Swimlane menu: I suppose that this menu should become simpler and we all agreed on that in the last system dev meeting.
First, in regard to the video analysis features I would suggest to use the same icons and also group lanes that you can toggle under each feature (e.g. Kinesphere --> 1. Follow selected person; 2. All IDs). These features could also be grouped under one main "data visualisation" menu item, which can also contain the annotation density lane. In the swimlane menu only those menu items should be visible that are already available. If kinesphere hasn't been processed yet it should not show up as an option in the swimlane menu.
Second, I would suggest to think about one menu item that is simply called "new custom lane" which opens an overlay where you can configure a new lane. This configuration could include the decision if the custom lane combines the annotations of all users or if it is split per user. It could also allow you to set a filter for this new lane.
But maybe @maximilian.mittermei can think of an even smarter solution based on the discussion in the last system dev meeting.
- Filter menu: in general it could remain the same. The text filter should also have an effect for all lanes in the swim lane with annotations no matter if split by user or combined in one lane. If we allow people to create custom lanes with a text filter applied (see 2.), they should nevertheless be affected as well, so it's clear that the filter in the annotation list will always have an effect on all annotation lanes in the swimlane.
There is still an open question for me in regard to automatically generated annotations (at the moment transcript, but it might also include Kinesphere labels or others in the future). They always get a seperate lane by default but are always shown together with alll other annotations in the annotation list by default. So they are handled differently in the list and in the swimlane. But this is maybe another issue.
Here is screenshot with all 3 menus visible: