Car Data Readme DOWNLOAD Cars ---The database of color car images was generated from video sequences

ta en in Boston and Cambridge over the course of a couple of days in 1999. Our goal was to demonstrate the rapid portability of the trainable object detection system described in [2], [3] to a new domain; this data was used in [1], [4], [5]. The pose of the cars in the dataset is limited to frontal and rear views. Each image was extracted from raw data and was scaled to the size 128x128 and aligned so that the car was in the center of the image; the size of the cars is such that the front or rear bumper is approximately 64 pixels across. The data is presented without any normalization; for details on how these images were processed, see the publications below. [1] @TechReport{PapPog99b, author = {C. Papageorgiou and T. Poggio}, title = {A Trainable Object Detection System: Car Detection in Static Im ages}, institution = mitai, year = 1999, number = 1673, month = {October}, note = {(CBCL Memo 180)} } [2] @INPROCEEDINGS{OrePap97, AUTHOR = {M. Oren and C.P. Papageorgiou and P. Sinha and E. Osuna and T. Poggio}, TITLE = {Pedestrian Detection Using Wavelet Templates}, BOOKTITLE = cvpr, YEAR = {1997}, PAGES = {193-99} } [3] @INPROCEEDINGS{PapOre98, AUTHOR = {C.P. Papageorgiou and M. Oren and T. Poggio}, TITLE = {A General Framewor for Object Detection}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Computer Vis ion}, YEAR = {1998} } [4] @TechReport{Pap00, author = {C. Papageorgiou}, title = {A Trainable System for Object Detection in Images and Video Seq uences}, institution = mitai, year = 2000,

type = {Technical Report}, number = 1685 } [5] @Article{PapPog00, author = {C. Papageorgiou and T. Poggio}, title = {A Trainable System for Object Detection}, journal = ijcv, year = 2000, note = {In press} }

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