COCO Keypoints


The COCO Keypoints format is designed specifically for human pose estimation tasks, where the objective is to identify and localize body joints or keypoints on a human figure within an image. This format is used with a variety of state-of-the-art models focused on pose estimation.

For more information, see:

COCO Keypoints export

  • Supported annotations: Skeletons
  • Attributes: Supported (stored in the custom attributes field of the annotation).
  • Tracks: Supported (via the track_id custom attribute).

Downloaded file is a .zip archive with the following structure:

├── images/
│   └── <subset_name>/
│       ├── <image_name1.ext>
│       ├── <image_name2.ext>
│       └── ...
└── annotations/
   ├── person_keypoints_<subset_name>.json
   └── ...

COCO Keypoints import

  • Supported annotations: Skeletons
  • Attributes: Supported (via the custom attributes field of the annotation).
  • Tracks: Supported (via the track_id custom attribute).

Uploaded file: a single unpacked .json or a .zip archive with the structure described above or here (without images).