ROBOTICS INSTITUTE
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

16-721: Advanced Perception

Spring 2006

 

DATABASES

·        LabelMe – a large database of over 10,000 annotated images with over 2,000 different object descriptions.  Plus there is a fun labeling game to get the database.

·        The PASCAL Object Recognition Database Collection

·        Caltech 101 – labeled pictures of objects belonging to 101 categories.

·        ESP game

·        Peekaboom

·        The Computer Vision Homepage contains an extensive list of other databases

·        CMU face databases

·        MIT databases for faces, pedestrians and cars

·        GRAZ 02 database of segmentation masks for bikes people and cars

·        UIUC Image Database for Car Detection

·        ETH-80 database for object categorization

·        Wordnet – Large searchable database of the relationships between different words.  Useful for automatically determining what image annotations mean.

OTHER INTERESTING IMAGE SOURCES

·        Flickr has a large collection of searchable images which can be automatically downloaded using these Matlab scripts (requires the open-source command-line browser Lynx)

·        A9.com has a large collection of images of streets in major U.S. cities, which is searchable by street address.

·        Webcams are another great source of freely available image data.  Some tools for using them are available here:

o       A script for logging webcams automatically using the Lynx browser

o       A cron script that runs the webcam logging script every 10 minutes

o       A script for using mencoder to make avi files from the captured images

·        Aerial images of the entire California coastline are available here.


Most recently updated on January. 16, 2006 by David Bradley

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