Places: An Image Database for Deep Scene Understanding
The rise of multi million item dataset initiatives has enabled data hungry machine learning algorithms to reach near human semantic classification at tasks such as object and scene recognition. Here we describe the Places Database, a repository of 10 million scene photographs, labeled with scene semantic categories and attributes, comprising a quasi exhaustive list of the types of environments encountered in the world. Using state of the art Convolutional Neural Networks, we provide impressive baseline performances at scene classification. With its high coverage and high diversity of exemplars, the Places Database offers an ecosystem to guide future progress on currently intractable visual recognition problems.
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