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Image Data for Multi-Instance Multi-Label Learning

1. Summary

This package contains two parts:

   - The "original" part contains 2000 natural scene images.

      This part is somewhat big, about 35.9Mb (24.2Mb after compression).

   - The "processed" part contains data sets for multi-instance multi-label learning.

      This part is not big, about 618Kb (608Kb after compression).



The data set has been used in:

 

ATTN:   You can feel free to use the package (for academic purpose only) at your own risk. An acknowledge or citation to the above paper is required. For other purposes, please contact Prof. Zhi-Hua Zhou (zhouzh@nju.edu.cn).



Download:   [datafile] (24.7Mb)

 

2. Details

The image data set consists of 2,000 natural scene images, where a set of labels is artificially assigned to each image. The following table gives the detailed description of the number of images associated with different label sets, where all the possible class labels are desert, mountains, sea, sunset and trees. The number of images belonging to more than one class (e.g. sea+sunset) comprises over 22% of the data set, many combined classes (e.g. mountains+sunset +trees) are extremely rare. On average, each image is associated with 1.24 class labels.

                                                            Table 1. Characteristics of the natural scene image data
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   Label  Set                   #Images      |          Label  Set                       #Images       |        Label  Set                                     #Images
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      desert                        340          |         desert+sunset                      21           |        sunset+trees                                    28
      mountains                 268          |         desert+trees                         20            |        desert+mountains+sunset                 1 
      sea                     
       341          |          mountains+sea                   38            |        desert+sunset+trees                          3
      sunset                
        216          |         mountains+sunset                19            |        mountains+sea+trees                        6
      trees                     
     378          |           mountains+trees              106           |        mountains+sunset+trees                   1
      desert+mountains      
19          |          sea+sunset                        172          |        sea+sunset+trees                              4
      desert+sea
                     5          |          sea+trees                            14           |                   Total                                    2,000
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The "original" part of this package contains all these 2,000 natural scene images, which are named in numbers from 1 to 2,000.



The "processed" part of this package contains the multi-instance multi-label data (in MATLAB format) obtained from the natural scene images. Specifically, each image is represented as a bag of nine instances generated by the SBN method [1]. Concretely, each image is smoothed by a Gaussian filter and subsampled to an 8x8 matrix of color blobs where each blob is a 2x2 set of pixels within the 8x8 matrix. An SBN is defined as the combination of a single blob with its four neighboring blobs (up, down, left, right). The sub-image is described as a 15-dimensional vector, where the first three attributes represent the mean R, G, B values of the central blob and the remaining twelve attributes correspond to the differences in mean color values between the central blob and other four neighboring blobs respectively. Therefore, each image bag is represented by a collection of nine 15-dimensional feature vectors obtained by using each of the nine blobs not along the border as the central blob. Furthermore, each image is also manually assigned with a set of labels.



After reading the processed data into MATLAB environment, for the i-th natural scene image in the "original" part, the image bag corresponding to this image is stored in bags{i,1} while its associated labels are stored in target(:,i). For illustration purpose, suppose target(:,i)' equals [1 -1 -1 1 -1], it means that the i-th image belongs to the 1st and 4th classes but do not belong to the 2nd, 3rd and 5th classes. The variable "class_name" gives the name of each class.



[1] O. Maron and A. L. Ratan. Multiple-instance learning for natural scene classification. In: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 341-349, Madison, WI, 1998.


 

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