def _load_coco_annotation(self, index):
        """
        Loads COCO bounding-box instance annotations. Crowd instances are
        handled by marking their overlaps (with all categories) to -1. This
        overlap value means that crowd "instances" are excluded from training.
        """
        im_ann = self._COCO.loadImgs(index)[0]
        width = im_ann['width']
        height = im_ann['height']

        annIds = self._COCO.getAnnIds(imgIds=index, iscrowd=None)
        objs = self._COCO.loadAnns(annIds)
        # Sanitize bboxes -- some are invalid
        valid_objs = []
        for obj in objs:
            x1 = np.max((0, obj['bbox'][0]))
            y1 = np.max((0, obj['bbox'][1]))
            x2 = np.min((width - 1, x1 + np.max((0, obj['bbox'][2] - 1))))
            y2 = np.min((height - 1, y1 + np.max((0, obj['bbox'][3] - 1))))
            if obj['area'] > 0 and x2 >= x1 and y2 >= y1:
                obj['clean_bbox'] = [x1, y1, x2, y2]
                valid_objs.append(obj)
        objs = valid_objs
        num_objs = len(objs)

        boxes = np.zeros((num_objs, 4), dtype=np.uint16)
        gt_classes = np.zeros((num_objs), dtype=np.int32)
        overlaps = np.zeros((num_objs, self.num_classes), dtype=np.float32)
        seg_areas = np.zeros((num_objs), dtype=np.float32)

        # Lookup table to map from COCO category ids to our internal class
        # indices
        coco_cat_id_to_class_ind = dict([(self._class_to_coco_cat_id[cls],
                                          self._class_to_ind[cls])
                                         for cls in self._classes[1:]])

        for ix, obj in enumerate(objs):
            cls = coco_cat_id_to_class_ind[obj['category_id']]
            boxes[ix, :] = obj['clean_bbox']
            gt_classes[ix] = cls
            seg_areas[ix] = obj['area']
            if obj['iscrowd']:
                # Set overlap to -1 for all classes for crowd objects
                # so they will be excluded during training
                overlaps[ix, :] = -1.0
            else:
                overlaps[ix, cls] = 1.0

        ds_utils.validate_boxes(boxes, width=width, height=height)
        overlaps = scipy.sparse.csr_matrix(overlaps)
        return {'boxes' : boxes,
                'gt_classes': gt_classes,
                'gt_overlaps' : overlaps,
                'flipped' : False,
                'seg_areas' : seg_areas}

        Loads COCO bounding-box instance annotations. Crowd instances are
        handled by marking their overlaps (with all categories) to -1. This
        overlap value means that crowd "instances" are excluded from training.
        
lib/datasets/coco.py