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Introduction

The main goal of this challenge is to recognize objects from a number of visual object classes in realistic scenes (i.e. not pre-segmented objects). It is fundamentally a supervised learning learning problem in that a training set of labelled images is provided. The twenty object classes that have been selected are:

Person: person Animal: bird, cat, cow, dog, horse, sheep Vehicle: aeroplane, bicycle, boat, bus, car, motorbike, train Indoor: bottle, chair, dining table, potted plant, sofa, tv/monitor

Data

To download the training/validation data, see the development kit.

The training data provided consists of a set of images; each image has an annotation file giving a bounding box and object class label for each object in one of the twenty classes present in the image. Note that multiple objects from multiple classes may be present in the same image. Annotation was performed according to a set of guidelines distributed to all annotators.

A subset of images are also annotated with pixel-wise segmentation of each object present, to support the segmentation competition.

Images for the action classification task are disjoint from those of the classification/detection/segmentation tasks. They have been partially annotated with people, bounding boxes, reference points and their actions. Annotation was performed according to a set of guidelines distributed to all annotators.

Images for the person layout taster, where the test set is disjoint from the main tasks, have been additionally annotated with parts of the people (head/hands/feet).

The data will be made available in two stages; in the first stage, a development kit will be released consisting of training and validation data, plus evaluation software (written in MATLAB). One purpose of the validation set is to demonstrate how the evaluation software works ahead of the competition submission.

In the second stage, the test set will be made available for the actual competition. As in the VOC2008-2011 challenges, no ground truth for the test data will be released.

The data has been split into 50% for training/validation and 50% for testing. The distributions of images and objects by class are approximately equal across the training/validation and test sets. Statistics of the database are online.