COCO download script is broken

[lemairecarl]

In the resulting folder,

• annotations/instances_trainval35k.json.zip is corrupted (also why does the script downloads this but doesn't unzip it?)
• coco_labels.txt is missing (it can be found in ssd.pytorch/data)

There are no errors in the console output.

[seongkyun]

You can download that file on here.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/s3tw5zcg7395368/instances_valminusminival2014.json.zip
After download, just change file's name correctly(instances_trainval35k.json) and copy that to correct directory(annotations/).

Then, you can train with MS COCO dataset.

[rebeen]

I think we can only train this model on coco but we can not test and evaluate, am I correctly understood
Thank you

[elcolie]

@seongkyun
I have followed your answer on my MBP2022. I got this error.
OSX 13.4.1 (c) (22F770820d)
Python 3.11.3
My packages pip freeze.txt

/Users/sarit/data/coco
loading annotations into memory...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/sarit/study/ssd.pytorch/train.py", line 256, in <module>
    train()
  File "/Users/sarit/study/ssd.pytorch/train.py", line 81, in train
    dataset = COCODetection(root=args.dataset_root,
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/sarit/study/ssd.pytorch/data/coco.py", line 91, in __init__
    self.coco = COCO(osp.join(root, ANNOTATIONS,
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/sarit/anaconda3/envs/try_openai/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pycocotools/coco.py", line 82, in __init__
    dataset = json.load(f)
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/sarit/anaconda3/envs/try_openai/lib/python3.11/json/__init__.py", line 293, in load
    return loads(fp.read(),
                 ^^^^^^^^^
  File "<frozen codecs>", line 322, in decode
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xdc in position 69: invalid continuation byte

[elcolie]

You can download that file on here. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/s3tw5zcg7395368/instances_valminusminival2014.json.zip After download, just change file's name correctly(instances_trainval35k.json) and copy that to correct directory(annotations/).

Then, you can train with MS COCO dataset.

You forgot to mention extract and rename it 👎

[floopypoppy]

You can download that file on here. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/s3tw5zcg7395368/instances_valminusminival2014.json.zip After download, just change file's name correctly(instances_trainval35k.json) and copy that to correct directory(annotations/).

Then, you can train with MS COCO dataset.

Sorry but this link can't be found now. Can you please update it? Thanks!