Download ImageNet

June 30, 2025
by Leonardo

1. The simple way to download ImageNet

Download the ImageNet dataset from the official website.

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wget https://image-net.org/data/ILSVRC/2012/ILSVRC2012_img_train.tar --no-check-certificate
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wget https://image-net.org/data/ILSVRC/2012/ILSVRC2012_img_val.tar --no-check-certificate

Download the preparation script

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wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/antoinebrl/7d00d5cb6c95ef194c737392ef7e476a/raw/dc53ad5fcb69dcde2b3e0b9d6f8f99d000ead696/prepare.sh

Run the script

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bash prepare.sh

If the files are not in the same folder you can specify their paths

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bash prepare.sh ~/Dataset/imagenet/ILSVRC2012_img_train.tar ~/Dataset/imagenet/ILSVRC2012_img_val.tar