Tool for creating custom coco keypoint dataset

[chungusmungus555]

Hey all, I'm trying to generate a custom human pose dataset to finetune a pretrained model. Are there any tools that are really good but is also open-source?

[ly015]

LabelBee or LabelMe is probably what you need.

[chungusmungus555]

Hey, thanks for replying, so I would need to annotate both the bounding box and the keypoints for training, right?

[ly015]

Yes, usually both bbox and keypoint annotation are needed. You can also annotate only keypoints and use the minimum enclosing rectangle as a coarse approximation of the bounding box.

[chungusmungus555]

Yes, usually both bbox and keypoint annotation are needed. You can also annotate only keypoints and use the minimum enclosing rectangle as a coarse approximation of the bounding box.

That will make annotation faster but is there a tradeoff in training?