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.

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