diff --git a/python/paddle/v2/dataset/__init__.py b/python/paddle/v2/dataset/__init__.py
index 2e4beb6882789..90830515c1e8e 100644
--- a/python/paddle/v2/dataset/__init__.py
+++ b/python/paddle/v2/dataset/__init__.py
@@ -26,8 +26,9 @@
 import wmt14
 import mq2007
 import flowers
+import voc2012
 
 __all__ = [
     'mnist', 'imikolov', 'imdb', 'cifar', 'movielens', 'conll05', 'sentiment'
-    'uci_housing', 'wmt14', 'mq2007', 'flowers'
+    'uci_housing', 'wmt14', 'mq2007', 'flowers', 'voc2012'
 ]
diff --git a/python/paddle/v2/dataset/tests/voc2012_test.py b/python/paddle/v2/dataset/tests/voc2012_test.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..31e72ebf5eac0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/paddle/v2/dataset/tests/voc2012_test.py
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2016 PaddlePaddle Authors. All Rights Reserved
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import paddle.v2.dataset.voc2012
+import unittest
+
+
+class TestVOC(unittest.TestCase):
+    def check_reader(self, reader):
+        sum = 0
+        label = 0
+        for l in reader():
+            self.assertEqual(l[0].size, 3 * l[1].size)
+            sum += 1
+        return sum
+
+    def test_train(self):
+        count = self.check_reader(paddle.v2.dataset.voc_seg.train())
+        self.assertEqual(count, 2913)
+
+    def test_test(self):
+        count = self.check_reader(paddle.v2.dataset.voc_seg.test())
+        self.assertEqual(count, 1464)
+
+    def test_val(self):
+        count = self.check_reader(paddle.v2.dataset.voc_seg.val())
+        self.assertEqual(count, 1449)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    unittest.main()
diff --git a/python/paddle/v2/dataset/voc2012.py b/python/paddle/v2/dataset/voc2012.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..617e212d67fbe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/paddle/v2/dataset/voc2012.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2016 PaddlePaddle Authors. All Rights Reserved
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+"""
+Image dataset for segmentation.
+The 2012 dataset contains images from 2008-2011 for which additional
+segmentations have been prepared. As in previous years the assignment
+to training/test sets has been maintained. The total number of images
+with segmentation has been increased from 7,062 to 9,993.
+"""
+
+import tarfile
+import io
+import numpy as np
+from paddle.v2.dataset.common import download
+from paddle.v2.image import *
+from PIL import Image
+
+__all__ = ['train', 'test', 'val']
+
+VOC_URL = 'http://host.robots.ox.ac.uk/pascal/VOC/voc2012/\
+VOCtrainval_11-May-2012.tar'
+
+VOC_MD5 = '6cd6e144f989b92b3379bac3b3de84fd'
+SET_FILE = 'VOCdevkit/VOC2012/ImageSets/Segmentation/{}.txt'
+DATA_FILE = 'VOCdevkit/VOC2012/JPEGImages/{}.jpg'
+LABEL_FILE = 'VOCdevkit/VOC2012/SegmentationClass/{}.png'
+
+CACHE_DIR = 'voc2012'
+
+
+def reader_creator(filename, sub_name):
+
+    tarobject = tarfile.open(filename)
+    name2mem = {}
+    for ele in tarobject.getmembers():
+        name2mem[ele.name] = ele
+
+    def reader():
+        set_file = SET_FILE.format(sub_name)
+        sets = tarobject.extractfile(name2mem[set_file])
+        for line in sets:
+            line = line.strip()
+            data_file = DATA_FILE.format(line)
+            label_file = LABEL_FILE.format(line)
+            data = tarobject.extractfile(name2mem[data_file]).read()
+            label = tarobject.extractfile(name2mem[label_file]).read()
+            data = Image.open(io.BytesIO(data))
+            label = Image.open(io.BytesIO(label))
+            data = np.array(data)
+            label = np.array(label)
+            yield data, label
+
+    return reader
+
+
+def train():
+    """
+    Create a train dataset reader containing 2913 images in HWC order.
+    """
+    return reader_creator(download(VOC_URL, CACHE_DIR, VOC_MD5), 'trainval')
+
+
+def test():
+    """
+    Create a test dataset reader containing 1464 images in HWC order.
+    """
+    return reader_creator(download(VOC_URL, CACHE_DIR, VOC_MD5), 'train')
+
+
+def val():
+    """
+    Create a val dataset reader containing 1449 images in HWC order.
+    """
+    return reader_creator(download(VOC_URL, CACHE_DIR, VOC_MD5), 'val')
diff --git a/python/setup.py.in b/python/setup.py.in
index b1041f6102a56..65a26940d4d70 100644
--- a/python/setup.py.in
+++ b/python/setup.py.in
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ setup_requires=["requests",
                 "matplotlib",
                 "rarfile",
                 "scipy>=0.19.0",
+                "Pillow",
                 "nltk"]
 
 if '${CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR}' not in ['arm', 'armv7-a', 'aarch64']: