Dataset: Variable Message Signal Annotated Images for Object Detection

Abstract

This publication presents a dataset consisting of Spanish road images taken from inside a vehicle, as well as annotations in XML files in PASCAL VOC format that indicate the location of Variable Message Signals within them. Additionally, a CSV file is attached with information regarding the geographic position, the folder where the image is located and the text in Spanish. This can be used to train supervised learning computer vision algorithms such as convolutional neural networks. Throughout this work, the process followed to obtain the dataset, image acquisition and labeling and its specifications are detailed. The dataset constitutes 1216 instances, 888 positives and 328 negatives, in 1152 jpg images with a resolution of 1280 × 720 pixels. These are divided into 756 real images and 756 images created from the data-augmentation technique. The purpose of this dataset is to help in road computer vision research since there is not one specifically for VMSs.