COCO API

The COCO API (Common Objects in Context API) is a software toolkit designed for working with a large annotated image dataset used in computer vision. It provides tools to easily access, manipulate, and analyze images, object labels, and annotations such as bounding boxes and segmentations. Researchers and developers use it to train, evaluate, and improve algorithms for tasks like object detection and image segmentation. Essentially, the COCO API streamlines the process of working with complex image data, making it easier to develop and benchmark machine learning models in visual recognition.