[visionlist] McGill calibrated color image database (and hosting offer)

[C.Alejandro Parraga]

Hi all, 

As a follow-up to Paul Ivanov's message I would like to make a little bit of
advertising about our online dataset of natural images (not as varied as
Fred Kingdom & Adriana Olmos' one) but a bit more recent. 

http://www.cvc.uab.es/color_calibration/

The website offers an explanation on the calibration methods.

We are thinking of updating the pictures in a few weeks and I would like to
encourage people to offer suggestions about the subject matter!

Best regards, 

Alejandro

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C. Alejandro Parraga
Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow,
Centre de Visió per Computador,
Computer Science Department,
Edifíci “O”, Campus UAB (Bellaterra),
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,
Barcelona, 08193, Spain.
Alejandro.Parraga at cvc.uab.es
work: +34 93 581 3416
fax:  +34 93 581 1670 
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-----Original Message-----
From: visionlist-bounces at visionscience.com
[mailto:visionlist-bounces at visionscience.com] On Behalf Of Paul Ivanov
Sent: 07 July 2011 01:49
To: cvnet at mail.ewind.com; visionlist at visionscience.com
Subject: [visionlist] McGill calibrated color image database (and hosting
offer)

Vision Scientists,

I wanted to bring to your attention the availability of a mirror
of the McGill calibrated color image database at the following
url:

http://pirsquared.org/research/mcgilldb/

The original server (http://tabby.vision.mcgill.ca/) is currently
down, and Fred Kingdom welcomed the establishment of a mirror.

Fred informed me that the citation for this database should be:
Olmos, A., Kingdom, F. A. A. (2004), A biologically inspired
algorithm for the recovery of shading and reflectance images,
Perception, 33, 1463 - 1473. 

Additionally, in the spirit of digital artifact preservation, I
want to offer free hosting (primary or as a mirror) for any other
vision-related datasets. I've hosted a copy of Hans van Hateren's
still image database since that server went down last February,
and in doing so have happily served ~900 GB of data.

best,
-- 
Paul Ivanov
Ph.D. candidate in Vision Science, UC Berkeley
http://pirsquared.org | GPG/PGP key id: 0x0F3E28F7