NVIDIA-optimized C++ pycocotools extension

[ElectronicElephant]

Hello mmlab,

It's great to see COCO and LVIS API merged into one repo.

However, the original python api still suffers from slow evaluation speed (~ minutes). AFAIK, NVIDIA has brought a C++ extension (https://github.com/NVIDIA/cocoapi/blob/nvidia/master/PythonAPI/pycocotools/ext.cpp) , which can print the mAP & mAR table in less than one second, nearly in a flash. Would you consider introducing the extension into this repo?

[hellock]

Looks great. @xvjiarui Please take a look.

[xvjiarui]

Hi @ElectronicElephant
Sorry for the late reply.
We are planning to support it soon.