COCO Captions is uniquely structured to provide high-quality linguistic descriptions of visual scenes.
For most researchers, manually downloading and parsing JSON files is unnecessary. Popular libraries provide built-in loaders: COCO dataset coco captions dataset download
The most reliable way to obtain the dataset is through the official COCO website. To use the captioning data, you typically need both the raw images and the specific annotation files. Direct Download 2014 Val Images (6GB): Direct Download 2014 Train/Val Annotations (241MB): Direct Download 2015 Testing Images (6GB): Direct Download COCO Captions is uniquely structured to provide high-quality