Hi you guys, If you are a designer, developer, or simply passionate about AI and Assistive technologies, I would like share that we have created a free public access AI dataset for training object recognition technologies. This dataset is called ORBIT-India dataset and is published here: https://zenodo.org/records/12608444
Basically object recognition apps are any apps like Seeing AI, Lookout, SuperSense etc that have a feature where they recognise and tell you the objects in your surroundings. Such applications are trained on images of different objects so they can recognise them and currently most of such images are taken by sighted people. This is slowly changing, like our dataset is carefully created by our data collectors with visual impairment, living in different parts of India. They have captured objects like white cane, handbags, keys, mobile charger, belan, and many things. It's a realistic dataset, like shows how our Indian homes truly look like, and different from western homes, and how our objects look like, their brands, shape, how and where we keep them in our houses. Training applications with this data has chances of improving their performance for users in India. It's free to use, so feel free to share with someone you know might be interested. If you are curious about how this data was collected and contents of the dataset, we published a research paper this year, you can read it here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3772318.3791099 This was a part of my PhD project, and my collaborators were from Microsoft Research and Swansea University. If you are using it or have any questions/ideas, please let me know. Thanks for your attention! Hope you have a great rest of the week. Best regards, Gesu India -- Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list.. Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AccessIndia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/a/accessindia.org.in/d/msgid/accessindia/CAN-VCsk-PVfokJPQ%3D4qbXxLv4MszvSnCBFQ_0NW3iFgMZXh2MQ%40mail.gmail.com.
