Download !!install!! Coco Dataset Python <Firefox>

This script downloads only 100 samples containing "person" or "dog" from the 2017 validation set.

The official COCO API ( pycocotools ) is best if you have already downloaded the ZIP files and need to parse the JSON annotations. download coco dataset python

Instead of the full 25GB+, you can download only the specific classes (e.g., just "person" and "car") or a smaller sample for testing. This script downloads only 100 samples containing "person"