ROBOTICS INSTITUTE
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

16-721: Learning-based Methods in Vision

Spring 2007

 

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

·       Faces in the Wild

·       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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