Microsoft Common Objects in Context (COCO) is a competition with Microsoft’s 2014 Microsoft COCO dataset, which is the one of the most popular and authoritative game in computer vision. After the closure of the ImageNet competition, the COCO competition has become the most authoritative and important Benchmark in the field of object recognition and detection. This is the only competition that can bring together technology companies such as Google, Microsoft, Facebook or other innovative companies and top universities in many countries.

The specific tasks of the COCO 2018 Challenge include Object Detection Task, Panoptic Segmentation Task, Person Keypoints Detection Task, DensePose Task.