Coco format support

[talmo]

This is available in core SLEAP and would be super useful, especially for experimenting with other training backbends.

Some references:

• https://cocodataset.org/#format-data
• https://cocodataset.org/#keypoints-2020
• https://docs.voxel51.com/integrations/coco.html
• https://mmpose.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dataset_zoo/2d_animal_keypoint.html

[dahhei]

By any chance is there a timeline on support for a SLEAP --> Coco format converter? I would be very interested in the ability to experiment with MMPose

[talmo]

Sorry @dahhei!! Totally missed the notification of your message!

Right now the blocker is that we need to implement image sets as another Video backend.

It's in the works, but can't promise a timeline just yet :(

Not quite the same as COCO, but here's an example notebook using sleap-io to convert to the Ultralytics pose format.

[dahhei]

I'll look forward to it 😁 Thanks for taking the time to respond. I think there is also a label studio --> COCO conversion I can take a look at since sleap already has the save_labelstudio() function.