Importing COCO project
Import a dataset and annotations which are stored in COCO format on your local file system.
Make sure you have installed Encord Active with the coco extras.
If you already have a project on your local machine using the COCO data format, you can import that project with the following command:
encord-active import project --coco -i ./images -a ./annotations.json
This will create a new Encord Active project inside a new directory in you current working directory.
The command above assumes the following structure but is not limited to it.
coco-project-foo
├── images
│ ├── 00000001.jpeg
│ ├── 00000002.jpeg
│ ├── ...
└── annotations.json
You can provide any path to each of the arguments as long as the first one is a directory of images and the second is an annotations file following the COCO data format.
Running the importer will do the following things.
- Create a local Encord Active project.
- Compute all the metrics.
Step 1 will by default make a hard copy of the images used in your dataset.
Optionally, you can add the --symlinks argument
encord-active import project --coco -i ./images -a ./annotations.json --symlinks
to tell Encord Active to use symlinks instead of copying files. But be aware that if you later move or delete your original image files, Encord Active will stop working!
The whole flow might take a while depending on the size of your dataset. Bare with us, it is worth the wait.
When the process is done, follow the printed instructions to open the app or see more details here.
If you want the dataset to be available on the Encord platform, please refer to the Export documentation.