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-sloth is a tool for labeling image and video data for computer vision research.
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-The documentation can be found at http://sloth.readthedocs.org/
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+sloth is a tool for labeling image and video data for computer vision research.
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+The documentation can be found at http://sloth.readthedocs.org/
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+Latest Releases
+===============
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+2013/11/29 v1.0: 2e69fdae40f89050fbaeef22491eee2a92e78b4f [.zip](https://github.com/cvhciKIT/sloth/archive/v1.0.zip) [.tar.gz](https://github.com/cvhciKIT/sloth/archive/v1.0.tar.gz)
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+For a full list, visit https://github.com/cvhciKIT/sloth/releases