diff --git a/.github/workflows/CI-responsibleai-text-vision-pytest.yml b/.github/workflows/CI-responsibleai-text-vision-pytest.yml
index e829e06df6..9e217ddb21 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/CI-responsibleai-text-vision-pytest.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/CI-responsibleai-text-vision-pytest.yml
@@ -80,6 +80,12 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
 
+      - if: ${{ (matrix.packageDirectory == 'responsibleai_vision') }}
+        name: Install pycocotools dependency
+        shell: bash -l {0}
+        run: |
+          conda install pycocotools==2.0.4 -c conda-forge
+
       - if: ${{ (matrix.packageDirectory == 'responsibleai_vision') && (matrix.pythonVersion == '3.8') }}
         name: Install automl dependencies
         shell: bash -l {0}