pycococreator is a set of tools to help create COCO datasets. It includes functions to generate annotations in uncompressed RLE ("crowd") and polygons in the format COCO requires.
Read more here https://patrickwasp.com/create-your-own-coco-style-dataset/
pip install git+git://github.com/waspinator/pycococreator.git@0.2.0
If you need to install pycocotools for python 3, try the following:
sudo apt-get install python3-dev
pip install cython
pip install git+git://github.com/waspinator/coco.git@2.1.0