Improved Datasets

Lightly uses its data selection technology to compare against random and other subsampling methods on well-known academic datasets. We make the filenames of the samples in the curated datasets available here, for free, so that everyone can use the improved datasets for their own applications.

Note: We only run the training data through our data selection solution. The test set stays the same.

KITTI 2d Object Detection

A screenshot depicting bounding boxes around cars on a street
Using Lightly we can save 10% of the data labeling costs while improving the model accuracy!
Overview

Task: Object Detection (7 classes)

Total dataset: 7481 images

Training set: 5984 images

Curated training set (90%): 5386 images

Validation set: 1497 images

Evaluation Method

Scientific Dataset Studies

Learn more about how the Lightly subsampling method compares against random subsampling on well-known acadmic datasets.

Note: We only run the training data through our data selection solution. The test set stays the same. We do not recommend to do this in practice since train / test should have a similar distribution to properly evaluate a ML model. Additionally, these datasets went through a manual cleaning procedure to balance the dataset. We see on customer data much stronger impacts. Typically, we see the same test accuracy with 50% of the training data selected by Lightly as when using the full training dataset.

Kitti

Kitti is a well-known dataset for autonomous driving for object detection.
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Object detection plot using Lightly's sampling versus other sampling methods.

CamVid

CamVid is one of the first image segmentation datasets from 2007 and with little over 700 images for autonomous driving
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A graph depicting CamVid filtering evaluation using lightly subsamping method versus a random subsampling method

CIFAR-10

CIFAR-10 is a well-known image classification dataset consisting of 10 classes.
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A graph showing Cifar10 filtering evaluation using Lightly's subsampling method versus a random one

Cityscapes

Cityscapes has been released in 2016 and is commonly used for benchmarking segmentation models in autonomous driving. It consists of 5'000 images.
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A graph showing filtering evaluation for the cityscapes dataset using Lightly's subsampling method versus a random one
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Scientific Dataset Studies

Learn more about how the Lightly subsampling method compares against random subsampling on well-known academic datasets.

Note: We only run the training data through our data selection solution. The test set stays the same. We do not recommend to do this in practice since train / test should have a similar distribution to properly evaluate a ML model. Additionally, these datasets went through a manual cleaning procedure to balance the dataset. We see on customer data much stronger impacts. Typically, we see the same test accuracy with 50% of the training data selected by Lightly as when using the full training dataset.

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1) Connect to unlabeled data

Connect Lightly with your data in GCP, Azure, and AWS S3 buckets. Data always stays on your infrastructure, which keeps your data secured and privacy guaranteed

2) Define curation criteria

Use a combination of model predictions, embeddings, and metadata to reach your desired data distribution

3) Run the Lightly worker

Process your datasets on your infrastructure using our docker container. Lightly's highly optimized data curation engine can process millions of images by streaming them from the bucket without cluttering your disks

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4) Use curated data for labeling and model training

Get your curated dataset labeled, train your machine learning model, and check the accuracy improvement.

Object detection plot using Lightly's sampling versus other sampling methods.
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