diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5a2503c..b8944f8 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -103,3 +103,5 @@ ENV/
 \.DS_Store
 
 MANIFEST
+
+\.vscode/
diff --git a/pycococreatortools/pycococreatortools.py b/pycococreatortools/pycococreatortools.py
index 05550e2..aa6515c 100755
--- a/pycococreatortools/pycococreatortools.py
+++ b/pycococreatortools/pycococreatortools.py
@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@
 convert = lambda text: int(text) if text.isdigit() else text.lower()
 natrual_key = lambda key: [ convert(c) for c in re.split('([0-9]+)', key) ]
 
-def resize_array(array, new_size):
-    image = Image.fromarray(array)
+def resize_binary_mask(array, new_size):
+    image = Image.fromarray(array.astype(np.uint8)*255)
     image = image.resize(new_size)
-    return np.asarray(image)
+    return np.asarray(image).astype(np.bool_)
 
 def close_contour(contour):
     if not np.array_equal(contour[0], contour[-1]):
@@ -76,15 +76,21 @@ def create_image_info(image_id, file_name, image_size,
 
     return image_info
 
-def create_annotation_info(annotation_id, image_id, category_info, binary_mask, image_size, tolerance=0):
-    binary_mask = resize_array(binary_mask, image_size)
+def create_annotation_info(annotation_id, image_id, category_info, binary_mask, 
+                           image_size=None, tolerance=2, bounding_box=None):
+
+    if image_size is not None:
+        binary_mask = resize_binary_mask(binary_mask, image_size)
+
     binary_mask_encoded = mask.encode(np.asfortranarray(binary_mask.astype(np.uint8)))
-    bounding_box = mask.toBbox(binary_mask_encoded)
-    area = mask.area(binary_mask_encoded)
 
+    area = mask.area(binary_mask_encoded)
     if area < 1:
         return None
 
+    if bounding_box is None:
+        bounding_box = mask.toBbox(binary_mask_encoded)
+
     if category_info["is_crowd"]:
         is_crowd = 1
         segmentation = binary_mask_to_rle(binary_mask)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3120aca..578a67c 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -6,12 +6,12 @@
 setup(name='pycococreatortools',
     packages=['pycococreatortools'],
     package_dir = {'pycococreatortools': 'pycococreatortools'},
-    version='0.1.5',
+    version='0.2.0',
     description = 'Tools to create COCO datasets',
     url = 'https://github.com/waspinator/pycococreator',
     author = 'waspinator',
     author_email = 'patrickwasp@gmail.com',
-    download_url = 'https://github.com/waspinator/pycococreator/archive/0.1.5.tar.gz',
+    download_url = 'https://github.com/waspinator/pycococreator/archive/0.2.0.tar.gz',
     keywords = ['coco', 'dataset', 'machine-learning'],
     install_requires=[
         'numpy', 'pillow', 'scikit-image'