diff --git a/download_and_convert_data.py b/download_and_convert_data.py
index 8a1b95a..a6f8ff2 100755
--- a/download_and_convert_data.py
+++ b/download_and_convert_data.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 from __future__ import division
 from __future__ import print_function
 
+import os
 import tensorflow as tf
 
 from libs.datasets import download_and_convert_coco
@@ -21,6 +22,8 @@
 
 
 def main(_):
+  if not os.path.isdir('./output/mask_rcnn'):
+    os.makedirs('./output/mask_rcnn')
   if not FLAGS.dataset_name:
     raise ValueError('You must supply the dataset name with --dataset_name')
   if not FLAGS.dataset_dir: