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ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database (with 5 co-authors)

Fei-Fei Li · 1 Jun 2009 · doi.org

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A new image database organizes 3.2 million clean pictures under thousands of word categories from a big dictionary of meanings, far larger and more accurate than earlier image sets. That scale and structure give researchers a shared resource for object recognition, image sorting, and automatic grouping. It is a dataset release that describes gathering pictures with paid online workers and shows three simple uses.

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  1. The explosion of image data on the Internet has the potential to foster more sophisticated and robust models and algorithms to index, retrieve, organize and interact with images and multimedia data.
  2. But exactly how such data can be harnessed and organized remains a critical problem.
  3. We show that ImageNet is much larger in scale and diversity and much more accurate than the current image datasets.
  4. We hope that the scale, accuracy, diversity and hierarchical structure of ImageNet can offer unparalleled opportunities to researchers in the computer vision community and beyond.