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Dataset Card for SBU Captioned Photo Dataset
Dataset Summary
SBU Captioned Photo Dataset is a collection of associated captions and images from Flickr.
Dataset Preprocessing
This dataset doesn't download the images locally by default. Instead, it exposes URLs to the images. To fetch the images, use the following code:
from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
from functools import partial
import io
import urllib
import PIL.Image
from datasets import load_dataset
from datasets.utils.file_utils import get_datasets_user_agent
USER_AGENT = get_datasets_user_agent()
def fetch_single_image(image_url, timeout=None, retries=0):
for _ in range(retries + 1):
try:
request = urllib.request.Request(
image_url,
data=None,
headers={"user-agent": USER_AGENT},
)
with urllib.request.urlopen(request, timeout=timeout) as req:
image = PIL.Image.open(io.BytesIO(req.read()))
break
except Exception:
image = None
return image
def fetch_images(batch, num_threads, timeout=None, retries=0):
fetch_single_image_with_args = partial(fetch_single_image, timeout=timeout, retries=retries)
with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=num_threads) as executor:
batch["image"] = list(executor.map(fetch_single_image_with_args, batch["image_url"]))
return batch
num_threads = 20
dset = load_dataset("sbu_captions")
dset = dset.map(fetch_images, batched=True, batch_size=100, fn_kwargs={"num_threads": num_threads})
Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
image-to-text
: This dataset can be used to train a model for Image Captioning where the goal is to predict a caption given the image.
Languages
All captions are in English.
Dataset Structure
Data Instances
Each instance in SBU Captioned Photo Dataset represents a single image with a caption and a user_id:
{
'img_url': 'http://static.flickr.com/2723/4385058960_b0f291553e.jpg',
'user_id': '47889917@N08',
'caption': 'A wooden chair in the living room'
}
Data Fields
image_url
: Static URL for downloading the image associated with the post.caption
: Textual description of the image.user_id
: Author of caption.
Data Splits
All the data is contained in training split. The training set has 1M instances.
Dataset Creation
Curation Rationale
From the paper:
One contribution is our technique for the automatic collection of this new dataset – performing a huge number of Flickr queries and then filtering the noisy results down to 1 million images with associated visually relevant captions. Such a collection allows us to approach the extremely challenging problem of description generation using relatively simple non-parametric methods and produces surprisingly effective results.
Source Data
The source images come from Flickr.
Initial Data Collection and Normalization
One key contribution of our paper is a novel web-scale database of photographs with associated descriptive text. To enable effective captioning of novel images, this database must be good in two ways: 1) It must be large so that image based matches to a query are reasonably similar, 2) The captions associated with the data base photographs must be visually relevant so that transferring captions between pictures is useful. To achieve the first requirement we query Flickr using a huge number of pairs of query terms (objects, attributes, actions, stuff, and scenes). This produces a very large, but noisy initial set of photographs with associated text.
Who are the source language producers?
The Flickr users.
Annotations
Annotation process
Text descriptions associated with the images are inherited as annotations/captions.
Who are the annotators?
The Flickr users.
Personal and Sensitive Information
Considerations for Using the Data
Social Impact of Dataset
Discussion of Biases
Other Known Limitations
Additional Information
Dataset Curators
Vicente Ordonez, Girish Kulkarni and Tamara L. Berg.
Licensing Information
Not specified.
Citation Information
@inproceedings{NIPS2011_5dd9db5e,
author = {Ordonez, Vicente and Kulkarni, Girish and Berg, Tamara},
booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
editor = {J. Shawe-Taylor and R. Zemel and P. Bartlett and F. Pereira and K.Q. Weinberger},
pages = {},
publisher = {Curran Associates, Inc.},
title = {Im2Text: Describing Images Using 1 Million Captioned Photographs},
url = {https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2011/file/5dd9db5e033da9c6fb5ba83c7a7ebea9-Paper.pdf},
volume = {24},
year = {2011}
}
Contributions
Thanks to @thomasw21 for adding this dataset
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