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
· The Computer Vision Homepage contains an extensive list of other 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)
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A9.com
has a large collection of images of streets in major
· 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
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Aerial images of the entire
Most recently updated on January. 16, 2006 by David Bradley
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