# Yolo-to-COCO-format-converter **Repository Path**: ccoding2021/Yolo-to-COCO-format-converter ## Basic Information - **Project Name**: Yolo-to-COCO-format-converter - **Description**: YOLO2COCO format - **Primary Language**: Python - **License**: MIT - **Default Branch**: master - **Homepage**: None - **GVP Project**: No ## Statistics - **Stars**: 0 - **Forks**: 0 - **Created**: 2021-11-30 - **Last Updated**: 2021-11-30 ## Categories & Tags **Categories**: Uncategorized **Tags**: None ## README # Yolo-to-COCO-format-converter When you use **Yolo-model**, you might create annotation labels with [Yolo-mark](https://github.com/AlexeyAB/Yolo_mark). For example, - `obj.names` - example of list with object names - `train.txt` - example with list of image filenames for training Yolo model - `train/` - example of folder that contain images and labels > - *.jpg : example of list of image > - *.txt : example of list of label **But, when you want to use another model(ex. efficientdet), you need another annotation format! :disappointed_relieved:** ### This code will help you make a COCO format annotations with Yolo format! ### Updates - Oct 13th, 2021 - We could support not only **`Yolo-mark`** outputs, but also **`OpenLabeling`** outputs! Also, We could make segmentation mask polygons information in json file. Thanks to [@NauchtanRobotics](https://github.com/NauchtanRobotics)! ## How to use ### Requirements - numpy - OpenCV You can make same environment with anaconda environment. - `conda create -n Yolo-to-COCO python=3.8` - `conda activate Yolo-to-COCO` - `pip install numpy` - `pip install opencv` Just clone this repository. - `git clone https://github.com/Taeyoung96/Yolo-to-COCO-format-converter.git` - `cd Yolo-to-COCO-format-converter` ### It will be easy to understand if you refer to the tutorial folder. When you have your own Yolo annotation format, just change a little bit! ### 1. Change `classes` with your own dataset. In `main.py`, there is a code that declare the classes. You will change this with your `obj.names`.

Next, follow step 2 if you have your annotations in separate text files, one for each image. Alternatively, follow step 3 if you wish to work from YOLO annotations which are concatenated into a single file. ### 2. Prepare COCO annotation file from multiple YOLO annotation files. #### 2a. Image and annotation files are side by side (Yolo-mark output: Seems like tutorial folder) Use this approach if your training data file structure looks like this:

    dataset_root_dir/
        Photo_00001.jpg
        Photo_00001.txt
        Photo_00002.jpg
        Photo_00003.txt

You don't need to specify `yolo-subdir` argument. - `python main.py --path --output ` - (For example)`python main.py --path /home/taeyoungkim/Desktop/Yolo-to-COCO-format-converter/tutorial/ --output train` #### 2b. Annotations are nested in a folder 'YOLO_darknet' (OpenLabeling output) Use this approach if your annotations are in nested a level below the image files like this:

    dataset_root_dir/
        YOLO_darknet/
            Photo_00001.txt
            Photo_00002.txt
        Photo_00001.jpg
        Photo_00002.jpg

Command to use: - `python main.py --yolo-subdir --path --output ` - `python main.py --yolo-subdir --box2seg --path --output ` --- The arg `--box2seg` initializes segmentation mask polygons that have box shapes. This is useful for when changing your modeling from object detection to image segmentation. These masks can then be reshaped using software such as the interface provided by makesense.ai ### 3. Prepare COCO annotation file from a single YOLO annotation file #### 3a. Check the absolute path in `train.txt`. Make sure that it points to the absolute path to the folder where the image and text files are located. You can easily change the path with `Text Editor`(Ubuntu 18.04) or `NotePad` (Window 10).

#### 3.1 How To Use `path_replacer.py` **If you want to quickly create a train.txt file in Ubuntu, you can use path_replacer.py.** Works with 2 simple arguments. - path_image_folder: File path where the images are located. - path_txt: File path of the 'txt' file you want to create. When you want to use - `python path_replacer.py --path_image_folder --path_txt ` - (For example)`python path_replacer.py --path_image_folder /home/taeyoungkim/Desktop/Yolo-to-COCO-format-converter/tutorial/train --path_txt /home/taeyoungkim/Desktop/Yolo-to-COCO-format-converter/tutorial/train.txt` #### 3.2 Now run the code. You need to provide 2 argments(essential) & 3 argments(optional). **essential** - path : Absolute path of train.txt - output : Name of the json file **optional** - yolo-subdir : If your annotation label have OpenLabeling output. - box2seg : If you want to make segmentation mask polygons that have box shapes. - debug : If you want to check the bounding boxes or annotation information. When you want to make json file, - `python main.py --path --output ` - (For example)`python main.py --path /home/taeyoungkim/Desktop/Yolo-to-COCO-format-converter/tutorial/train.txt --output train` Or when you want to check the bounding boxes, - `python main.py --path --output --debug` - (For example)`python main.py --path /home/taeyoungkim/Desktop/Yolo-to-COCO-format-converter/tutorial/train.txt --output train --debug` #### Tips If you want to read json files more clearly, you should use `JQ`! - [JQ Manual](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/) - (For example) `cd output` - `jq . train.json > train_jq.json` ## Results

Result of Json file

On debug mode, you can check bounding boxes

On debug mode, you can check annotation information on terminal

## Contributors - I created a repository by referring to [chrise96/image-to-coco-json-converter](https://github.com/chrise96/image-to-coco-json-converter). - **GeeJae Lee** helped to make it. ## License ``` Copyright (c) 2021 Tae Young Kim Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. ```