Extended COCO API (xtcocotools) is a fork of the original COCO API with enhanced functionality for keypoint detection and human pose estimation. Current version: 1.14.3. Release cadence is irregular, primarily updated for bug fixes and compatibility improvements.
pip install xtcocotoolsNo compatibility data collected yet for this library.
Verified import paths — ran on the pinned version, not inferred.
Quick start: load a COCO keypoint annotation file and list image IDs for the 'person' category.
Uninstall pycocotools: pip uninstall pycocotools -y; then install xtcocotools.
Install via conda if available, or use a precompiled wheel from PyPI with Python 3.6+.
Use COCO() object and COCOeval() with iouType='keypoints' instead.