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

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On Jul 7, 2011, at 7:10 AM, C.Alejandro Parraga wrote:

> 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
> 
> ===================================
> 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 
> ===================================
> 
> -----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
> 
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