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Pycococreator

Helper functions to create COCO datasets

From waspinator·Updated June 1, 2026·View on GitHub·

pycococreator is a set of tools to help create [COCO](http://cocodataset.org) datasets. It includes functions to generate annotations in uncompressed RLE ("crowd") and polygons in the format COCO requires. The project is written primarily in Python, distributed under the Apache License 2.0 license, first published in 2018. Key topics include: coco, computer-vision, dataset, machine-learning.

Latest release: 0.2.1
March 22, 2021View Changelog →

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pycococreator is a set of tools to help create COCO datasets. It includes functions to generate annotations in uncompressed RLE ("crowd") and polygons in the format COCO requires.

Read more here https://patrickwasp.com/create-your-own-coco-style-dataset/

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Install

pip install git+git://github.com/waspinator/pycococreator.git@0.2.0

If you need to install pycocotools for python 3, try the following:

sudo apt-get install python3-dev
pip install cython
pip install git+git://github.com/waspinator/coco.git@2.1.0

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