EXTRACTOBJECTS Procedure

PROC EXTRACTOBJECTS Statement

PROC EXTRACTOBJECTS DATA=libref.data-table <options>;

The PROC EXTRACTOBJECTS statement invokes the procedure.

You must specify the following option:

DATA=libref.data-table

names the input data table for PROC EXTRACTOBJECTS to use. The default is the most recently created data table. libref.data-table is a two-level name, where

libref: refers to a collection of information that is defined in the LIBNAME statement and includes the library, which includes a path to the data. For more information about libref, see the section Using SAS Viya Workbench.
data-table: specifies the name of the input data table.

You can also specify the following options:

COORDINATEFORMAT=COCO |RECT |YOLO CF=COCO |RECT |YOLO

specifies the format of input annotations that are used to define the boundaries of the detected objects. By default, COORDINATEFORMAT=RECT. For more information, see the section Supported Image Annotation Formats.

MAXOBJECTS=number

specifies the maximum number of detected objects to extract from the image data in the input table, where number is a positive integer. By default, MAXOBJECTS=10.

METHOD=CROP |HIGHLIGHT

specifies the method of object detection. You can specify the following types:

CROP: creates rectangular patches of detected regions from the input image.
HIGHLIGHT: draws bounding boxes around the detected objects in the input image.

By default, METHOD=HIGHLIGHT.

Last updated: September 30, 2026