Dataset preparation

If you want to reproduce the results in the paper for benchmark evaluation and training, you will need to setup dataset.

COCO

• Download the images (2017 Train, 2017 Val, 2017 Test) from coco website.

• Download annotation files (2017 train/val and test image info) from coco website.

• Place the data (or create symlinks) to make the data folder like:

  ${CenterNet_ROOT}
  |-- data
  `-- |-- coco
      `-- |-- annotations
          |   |-- instances_train2017.json
          |   |-- instances_val2017.json
          |   |-- person_keypoints_train2017.json
          |   |-- person_keypoints_val2017.json
          |   |-- image_info_test-dev2017.json
          |---|-- train2017
          |---|-- val2017
          `---|-- test2017