MPII Dataset Preparation

November 19, 2025 · View on GitHub

Follow the steps below to prepare the MPII Dataset for SAM-3D-Body Data.

Set the following environment variables to simplify directory references:
```
export COCO_IMG_DIR=/path/to/coco/images
```

Download and extract the COCO2014 dataset.

wget https://datasets.d2.mpi-inf.mpg.de/andriluka14cvpr/mpii_human_pose_v1.tar.gz
tar zxvf mpii_human_pose_v1.tar.gz -C $MPII_IMG_DIR 
rm mpii_human_pose_v1.tar.gz

$COCO_IMG_DIR should follow the directory structure below.
```
$MPII_IMG_DIR
└── images
```