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Description Progress on object detection is enabled by datasets that focus the research community's attention on open challenges. This process led us from simple images to complex scenes and from bounding boxes to segmentation masks. LVIS is ~2 million high-quality instance segmentation masks for over 1000 entry-level object categories in 164k images. Due to the Zipfian distribution of categories in natural images, LVIS naturally has a long tail of categories with few training samples. Given that state-of-the-art deep learning methods for object detection perform poorly in the low-sample regime, we believe that our dataset poses an important and exciting new scientific challenge.
Folder /datasets/ai/LVIS
Discipline AI / computer vision / Segmentation
DOI 10.48550/arXiv.1908.03195
Link Access Data
Public True
Publication Date 2019-08-08
Downloaded 2026-01-07
Data Type LMDB, SquashFS, Extracted JPG files on Ceph
Dataset Size 33G (extracted)
Number of Files 204631 (extracted)
Usage 
$ module avail
$ module load datasets
$ module load ai/LVIS/2019-08-08
Usage Policy Link https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Usage Policy The LVIS annotations along with this website are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. All LVIS dataset images come from the COCO dataset which those are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Citation Gupta, A., Dollar, P., & Girshick, R. (2019). LVIS: A dataset for large vocabulary instance segmentation. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (pp. 5356–5364).
BibTeX
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@inproceedings{gupta2019lvis,
  title={LVIS: A Dataset for Large Vocabulary Instance Segmentation},
  author={Gupta, Agrim and Dollar, Piotr and Girshick, Ross},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the {IEEE} Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
  year={2019}
}

Ceph access

This dataset is also available in raw/extracted form on RCAC Ceph/S3-compatible object storage.

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Endpoint https://s3.anvil.rcac.purdue.edu
Bucket ai-datasets
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