Datasets with ground truth have driven many of the recent advances in computer vision. They allow evaluation and comparison so the field knows what works. They also provide training data to machine learning methods that are hungry for data. Creating good datasets that are valuable to the community and have a reasonable lifespan is hard work. Key issues are the quality and quantity of the data, how well that data addresses a specific problem in the field, and whether it is well curated with a good evaluation.
We have played central roles in many influential datasets and evaluations in the field including
Note that Perceiving Systems is involved in all three of the standard benchmarks in optical flow (Middlebury, KITTI and Sintel).
We are committed to releasing data whenever possible including
Bogo, F., Romero, J., Pons-Moll, G., Black, M. J.
In Proceedings IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2017, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, July 2017 (inproceedings)
(Dataset Award, Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP), 2016)
Bogo, F., Romero, J., Loper, M., Black, M. J.
In Proceedings IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pages: 3794 -3801, Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 2014 (inproceedings)
Andriluka, M., Pishchulin, L., Gehler, P., Schiele, B.
In Proceedings IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pages: 3686 - 3693, IEEE, June 2014 (inproceedings)
Jhuang, H., Gall, J., Zuffi, S., Schmid, C., Black, M. J.
In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pages: 3192-3199, IEEE, Sydney, Australia, December 2013 (inproceedings)
Geiger, A., Lenz, P., Stiller, C., Urtasun, R.
International Journal of Robotics Research, 32(11):1231 - 1237 , Sage Publishing, September 2013 (article)
Butler, D. J., Wulff, J., Stanley, G. B., Black, M. J.
In European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV), pages: 611-625, Part IV, LNCS 7577, (Editors: A. Fitzgibbon et al. (Eds.)), Springer-Verlag, October 2012 (inproceedings)
Wulff, J., Butler, D. J., Stanley, G. B., Black, M. J.
In ECCV Workshop on Unsolved Problems in Optical Flow and Stereo Estimation, pages: 168-177, Part II, LNCS 7584, (Editors: A. Fusiello et al. (Eds.)), Springer-Verlag, October 2012 (inproceedings)
Andriluka, M., Sigal, L., Black, M. J.
In Visual Analysis of Humans: Looking at People, pages: 253-274, (Editors: Moesland and Hilton and Kr"uger and Sigal), Springer-Verlag, London, 2011 (incollection)
Baker, S., Scharstein, D., Lewis, J. P., Roth, S., Black, M. J., Szeliski, R.
International Journal of Computer Vision, 92(1):1-31, March 2011 (article)
Fritz, M., Black, M., Bradski, G., Karayev, S., Darrell, T.
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22, NIPS, pages: 558-566, MIT Press, 2009 (inproceedings)