Community photo collections
Michael Gösele · 2010
With the recent rise in popularity of Internet photo sharing sites, community photo collections-collections of images contributed by users online-have emerged as a powerful new type of image data set for computer vision and computer graphics research. Community photo collections are both a challenge and an opportunity: Compared to standard data sets captured under laboratory conditions, community photo collections show an extreme variability since the images were captured by a large number of photographers with various cameras and at different times. On the other hand, they are a tremendous resource since they give us access to a wide variety of images and associated meta information.