# ref : https://www.immersivelimit.com/create-coco-annotations-from-scratch

def create_sub_mask_annotation(sub_mask, image_id, category_id, annotation_id, is_crowd):
    # Find contours (boundary lines) around each sub-mask
    # Note: there could be multiple contours if the object
    # is partially occluded. (E.g. an elephant behind a tree)
    sub_mask = np.array(sub_mask) # <- ref code not consider shape function. so, convert numpy array for shape function 
    contours = measure.find_contours(sub_mask, 0.5, positive_orientation='low')

    segmentations = []
    polygons = []
    for contour in contours:
        # Flip from (row, col) representation to (x, y)
        # and subtract the padding pixel
        for i in range(len(contour)):
            row, col = contour[i]
            contour[i] = (col - 1, row - 1)

        # Make a polygon and simplify it
        poly = Polygon(contour)
        poly = poly.simplify(1.0, preserve_topology=False)
        polygons.append(poly)
        segmentation = np.array(poly.exterior.coords).ravel().tolist()
        segmentations.append(segmentation)

    # Combine the polygons to calculate the bounding box and area
    multi_poly = MultiPolygon(polygons)
    x, y, max_x, max_y = multi_poly.bounds
    width = max_x - x
    height = max_y - y
    bbox = (x, y, width, height)
    area = multi_poly.area

    annotation = {
        'segmentation': segmentations,
        'iscrowd': is_crowd,
        'image_id': image_id,
        'category_id': category_id,
        'id': annotation_id,
        'bbox': bbox,
        'area': area
    }

    return annotation