Comment by voxleone

Great idea and insight. If i understand, it will allow you to embed metadata such as bounding box coordinates and class names, something I have also been working on[0] -- embedding computer vision annotation data directly into an image's EXIF tags, rather than storing it in separate sidecar text files. The idea is simplifying the dataset's file structure. It could offer unexpected advantages — especially for smaller or proprietary datasets, or for fine-tuning tasks where managing separate annotation files adds unnecessary overhead.

[0] https://github.com/VoxleOne/XLabel

Edited for clarity