How to create custom COCO data set for object detection | DLology blog

Quick start

Then you can run the voc2coco.py script to generate a COCO data formatted JSON file for you.

python voc2coco.py ./data/VOC/Annotations ./data/coco/output.json

Then you can run the following Jupyter notebook to visualize the coco annotations. COCO_Image_Viewer.ipynb

Further instruction on how to create your own datasets, read the tutorial.