From 18b29be243ae5e87f53fba2ef9a96f5ec7ad4136 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aritra Roy Gosthipaty <aritra.born2fly@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2023 23:45:19 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Fixing conversion of box formats on the original boxes
 (#2213)

* chore: copy the original boxes and apply convert format

* chore: renaming variable
---
 keras_cv/bounding_box/converters.py | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/keras_cv/bounding_box/converters.py b/keras_cv/bounding_box/converters.py
index 8923527cbf..b671b6ff22 100644
--- a/keras_cv/bounding_box/converters.py
+++ b/keras_cv/bounding_box/converters.py
@@ -370,7 +370,8 @@ def convert_format(
             `"float32"`.
     """
     if isinstance(boxes, dict):
-        boxes["boxes"] = convert_format(
+        converted_boxes = boxes.copy()
+        converted_boxes["boxes"] = convert_format(
             boxes["boxes"],
             source=source,
             target=target,
@@ -378,7 +379,7 @@ def convert_format(
             image_shape=image_shape,
             dtype=dtype,
         )
-        return boxes
+        return converted_boxes
 
     if boxes.shape[-1] is not None and boxes.shape[-1] != 4:
         raise ValueError(