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The Cars Overhead With Context (COWC) dataset is a large set of annotated cars from overhead. It is useful for training a device such as a deep neural network to learn to detect and/or count cars. The COWC dataset has the following attributes: 1. Data from overhead at 15 cm per pixel resolution at ground (all data is EO). 2. Data from six distinct locations: Toronto Canada, Selwyn New Zealand, Potsdam and Vaihingen Germany, Columbus and Utah United States. 3. 32,716 unique annotated cars. 58,247 unique negative examples. 4. Intentional selection of hard negative examples. 5. Established baseline for detection and counting tasks. 6. Extra testing scenes for use after validation. The data includes wide area imagery with annotations as well as precompiled image sets for training/validation of classification and counting. Examples of the precompiled image sets are provided. A newer subset (COWC-M) also differentiates between four different types of automobiles. a) Sedan b) Pickup c) Other d) Unknown The dataset and research to create this data was done by members of the Computer Vision group within the Computation Engineering Division at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under grant from NA-22 in the Global Security Directorate. No Llamas were harmed in the creation of this set. Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/rdcp) Mundhenk, T. Nathan; Konjevod, Goran; Sakla, Wesam A.; Boakye, Kofi (2020). Cars Overhead with Context (COWC). In Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LNLL) Open Data Initiative. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. https://doi.org/10.6075/J0CN72BC Is Supplement To: Mundhenk T.N., Konjevod G., Sakla W.A., Boakye K. (2016) A Large Contextual Dataset for Classification, Detection and Counting of Cars with Deep Learning. In: Leibe B., Matas J., Sebe N., Welling M. (eds) Computer Vision – ECCV 2016. ECCV 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 9907. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46487-9_48
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Detection Automobile Classification Cars Overhead with Context (COWC) Counting Cars Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) Context Deep learning
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