ROBOTICS INSTITUTE
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

16-721: Learning-based Methods in Vision

Spring 2007

DATABASES

ƒL 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.

ƒL The PASCAL Object Recognition Database Collection

ƒL Caltech 101 ? labeled pictures of objects belonging to 101 categories.

ƒL ESP game

ƒL Peekaboom

ƒL Faces in the Wild

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

ƒL CMU face databases

ƒL MIT databases for faces, pedestrians and cars

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

ƒL UIUC Image Database for Car Detection

ƒL ETH-80 database for object categorization

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

OTHER INTERESTING IMAGE SOURCES

ƒL 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)

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

ƒL 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

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

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

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