shruti-shyam

It's a known issue that the oxford website is down quite often. You can use this mirror to download the VOC dataset. Just change the download link in the script...

You need to install the package pycocotools for the dataloader to work. If you are using conda, you can do it using: ``` conda install -c conda-forge pycocotools ```

see here: https://github.com/amdegroot/ssd.pytorch/issues/205#issuecomment-412762997