COCO-Assistant

Helper for dealing with MS-COCO annotations.

Overview

The MS COCO annotation format along with the pycocotools library is quite popular among the computer vision community. Yet I for one found it difficult to play around with the annotations. Deleting a specific category, combining multiple mini datasets to generate a larger dataset, viewing distribution of classes in the annotation file are things I would like to do without writing a separate script for each scenario.

The COCO Assistant is designed (or being designed) to assist with this problem. Please note that currently, the Assistant can only help out with object detection datasets. Any contributions and/or suggestions are welcome.

Package features

COCO-Assistant currently supports the following features:

• Merge datasets.
• Remove specfiic category from dataset.
• Generate annotations statistics - distribution of object areas and category distribution.
• Annotation visualiser for viewing the entire dataset.