diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 640f4cef..85150615 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+PythonAPI/venv/
+
 images/
 annotations/
 results/
@@ -14,3 +16,12 @@ PythonAPI/pycocotools/_mask.so
 PythonAPI/pycocotools/coco.pyc
 PythonAPI/pycocotools/cocoeval.pyc
 PythonAPI/pycocotools/mask.pyc
+PythonAPI/pycocotools/_mask.cpython-39-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
+PythonAPI/pycocotools.egg-info/top_level.txt
+PythonAPI/pycocotools.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
+PythonAPI/pycocotools.egg-info/requires.txt
+PythonAPI/pycocotools.egg-info/PKG-INFO
+PythonAPI/pycocotools.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
+PythonAPI/build/temp.linux-x86_64-cpython-39/pycocotools/_mask.o
+PythonAPI/build/lib.linux-x86_64-cpython-39/pycocotools/_mask.cpython-39-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
+PythonAPI/build/common/maskApi.o
diff --git a/PythonAPI/pyproject.toml b/PythonAPI/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7d06935b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/PythonAPI/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[build-system]
+requires=['setuptools', 'wheel', 'numpy', 'cython>=0.27.3']
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/PythonAPI/setup.cfg b/PythonAPI/setup.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e97578b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/PythonAPI/setup.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[options]
+install_requires =
+  matplotlib>=2.1.0
\ No newline at end of file