val_utils/docs/TAO-format.txt

Taken from: https://github.com/TAO-Dataset/tao/blob/master/tao/toolkit/tao/tao.py

Annotation file format:
{
    "info" : info,
    "images" : [image],
    "videos": [video],
    "tracks": [track],
    "annotations" : [annotation],
    "categories": [category],
    "licenses" : [license],
}
info: As in MS COCO
image: {
    "id" : int,
    "video_id": int,
    "file_name" : str,
    "license" : int,
    # Redundant fields for COCO-compatibility
    "width": int,
    "height": int,
    "frame_index": int
}
video: {
    "id": int,
    "name": str,
    "width" : int,
    "height" : int,
    "neg_category_ids": [int],
    "not_exhaustive_category_ids": [int],
    "metadata": dict,  # Metadata about the video
}
track: {
    "id": int,
    "category_id": int,
    "video_id": int
}
category: {
    "id": int,
    "name": str,
    "synset": str,  # For non-LVIS objects, this is "unknown"
    ... [other fields copied from LVIS v0.5 and unused]
}
annotation: {
    "image_id": int,
    "track_id": int,
    "bbox": [x,y,width,height],
    "area": float,
    # Redundant field for compatibility with COCO scripts
    "category_id": int
}
license: {
    "id" : int,
    "name" : str,
    "url" : str,
}