Computer Vision Test images

AVHRR Pathfinder - datasets

Brown University Stimuli - A variety of datasets including geons, objects, and "greebles". Good for testing recognition algorithms. (Formats: pict)

CCITT Fax standard images - 8 images) (Formats: gif)

CMU CIL's Stereo Data with Ground Truth - 3 sets of 11 images, including color tiff images with spectroradiometry (Formats: gif, tiff)

CMU VASC Image Database - Images, sequences, stereo pairs (thousands of images) (Formats: Sun Rasterimage)

Caltech Image Database - about 20 images - mostly top-down views of small objects and toys. (Formats: GIF)

Columbia-Utrecht Reflectance and Texture Database - Texture and reflectance measurements for over 60 samples of 3D texture, observed with over 200 different combinations of viewing and illumination directions. (Formats: bmp)

Digital Embryos - Digital embryos are novel objects which may be used to develop and test object recognition systems. They have an organic appearance. (Formats: various formats are available on request) ( Univerity of Minnesota Vision Lab / University of Minnesota)

EarthRISE - images of Earth from the space shuttle - good search engine

Georgia Tech images - many images (Formats: unknown)

Graz University of Technology - stereo pairs (2 image pairs) (Formats: TIFF)

Groningen Natural Image Database - 4000+ 1536x1024 (16 bit) calibrated outdoor images (Formats: homebrew)

Hyperspectral dataset of natural scenes - Hyperspectral images of 29 natural scenes with 31 bands each collected by Bristol University for DRA UK. (Formats: radiometric pixels & gif preview)

IEN Image Library - 1000+ images, mostly outdoor sequences (Formats: raw, ppm)

INRIA's Robotvis Images - many images (Formats: PGM, homebrew) (INRIA)

INRIA's Syntim images database - 15 color image of simple objects (Formats: gif) ( Syntim / INRIA)

INRIA's Syntim stereo databases - 34 calibrated color stereo pairs: (Formats: gif) ( Syntim / INRIA)

Image Database - An image database including some textures

JISCT Stereo Evaluation - 44 image pairs. These data have been used in an evaluation of stereo analysis, as described in the April 1993 ARPA Image Understanding Workshop paper ``The JISCT Stereo Evaluation'' by R.C.Bolles, H.H.Baker, and M.J.Hannah, 263--274. (Formats: SSI) (SRI)

Johns Hopkins polarization images - several sets of four images (Formats: compressed Sun Rasterimage) (Johns Hopkins)

KIEL Appearance Image Library dataset - dozens of images (Formats: PNG)

Linköping University - image database (including a calibrated outdoor stereo scene; see README and Stereo.txt) (Formats: homebrew)

Los Alamos fingerprint images - many images (Formats: raw 8-bit)

MIT Vision Texture - Image archive (100+ images) (Formats: ppm)

MIT face images and more - hundreds of images (Formats: homebrew) (MIT)

Machine Vision - Images from the textbook by Jain, Kasturi, Schunck (20+ images) (Formats: GIF TIFF)

Mammography Image Databases - 100 or more images of mammograms with ground truth. Additional images available by request, and links to several other mammography databases are provided. (Formats: homebrew)

Michigan State images - many images (Formats: unknown)

NIST Fingerprint and handwriting - datasets - thousands of images (Formats: unknown)

NIST Fingerprint data - compressed multipart uuencoded tar file (Columbia)

NLM HyperDoc Visible Human Project - Color, CAT and MRI image samples - over 30 images (Formats: jpeg)

OSU (MSU) 3D Object Model Database - several sets of 3D object models collected over several years to use in object recognition research (Formats: homebrew, vrml)

OSU (MSU/WSU) Range Image Database - Hundreds of real and synthetic images (Formats: gif, homebrew)

OSU/SAMPL Database: Range Images, 3D Models, Stills, Motion Sequences - Over 1000 range images, 3D object models, still images and motion sequences (Formats: gif, ppm, vrml, homebrew) ( Signal Analysis and Machine Perception Laboratory / The Ohio State University)

Olivetti face database - 400 images (Formats: pgm)

Optical flow test image sequences - see Performance of Optical Flow Techniques under RESEARCH CODE (6 synthetic and 4 real image sequences) (Formats: Sun Rasterimage)

Particle image sequences - Real and synthetic image sequences used for testing a Particle Image Velocimetry application. These images may be used for the test of optical flow and image matching algorithms. (Formats: pgm (raw)) ( LIMSI-CNRS/CHM/IMM/vision / LIMSI-CNRS)

RADIUS project test imagery (Formats: IU Testbed)

SEQUENCES FOR OPTICAL FLOW ANALYSIS (SOFA) - 9 synthetic sequences designed for testing motion analysis applications, including full ground truth of motion and camera parameters. (Formats: gif) ( Computer Vision Group / Dept of Computing and Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University)

Sequences for Flow Based Reconstruction - synthetic sequence for testing structure from motion algorithms (Formats: pgm) ( CVAP)

Stereo Images with Ground Truth Disparity and Occlusion - a small set of synthetic images of a hallway with varying amounts of noise added. Use these images to benchmark your stereo algorithm. (Formats: raw, viff (khoros), or tiff)

Stuttgart ISPRS Image Understanding datasets - stereo and/or infrared images with approximate ground truth (4 compressed datasets) (Formats: PGM)

The AR Face Database - Contains over 4,000 color images corresponding to 126 people's faces (70 men and 56 women). Frontal views with variations in facial expressions, illumination, and occlusions. (Formats: RAW (RGB 24-bit)) ( Purdue Robot Vision Lab)

Traffic Image Sequences and 'Marbled Block' Sequence - thousands of frames of digitized traffic image sequences as well as the 'Marbled Block' sequence (grayscale images) (Formats: GIF) ( IAKS/KOGS / Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH))

U Bern Face images - hundreds of images (Formats: Sun rasterfile)

U Michigan textures (Formats: compressed raw)

U Oulu wood and knots database - Includes classifications - 1000+ color images (Formats: ppm)

U Plymouth Image Archive - 1800 views of 5 synthetic 3D objects, the views being collected from the whole upper viewing hemisphere

UMass Vision Image Archive - Large image database with aerial, space, stereo, medical images and more. (Formats: homebrew)

UNC's 3D image database - many images (Formats: GIF)

USF Range Image Data with Segmentation Ground Truth - 80 image sets (Formats: Sun rasterimage)

University of Oulu Physics-based Face Database - contains color images of faces under different illuminants and camera calibration conditions as well as skin spectral reflectance measurements of each person. ( Machine Vision and Media Processing Unit / University of Oulu)

Usenix face database - (European access via London) (hundreds of images in several formats)

Utah Range Image database - 33 images (Formats: homebrew formats)

Vision-list Imagery Archive - Many images, many formats

Yale Face Database - 165 images (15 individuals) with different lighting, expression, and occlusion configurations.