Synset Boulevard: Synthetic image dataset for Vehicle Make and Model Recognition (VMMR)

The Synset Boulevard dataset contains a total of 259,200 synthetically generated images of cars from a frontal traffic camera perspective, annotated by vehicle makes, models and years of construction for machine learning methods (ML) in the scope (task) of vehicle make and model recognition (VMMR). The data set contains 162 vehicle models from 43 brands with 200 images each, as well as 8 sub-data sets each to be able to investigate different imaging qualities. In addition to the classification annotations, the data set also contains label images for semantic segmentation, as well as information on image and scene properties, as well as vehicle color. The dataset was presented in May 2024 by Anne Sielemann, Stefan Wolf, Masoud Roschani, Jens Ziehn and Jürgen Beyerer in the publication: Sielemann, A., Wolf, S., Roschani, M., Ziehn, J. and Beyerer, J. (2024). Synset Boulevard: A Synthetic Image Dataset for VMMR. In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). The model information is based on information from the ADAC online database (www.adac.de/rund-ums-fahrzeug/autokatalog/marken-modelle). The data was generated using the simulation environment OCTANE (www.octane.org), which uses the Cycles ray tracer of the Blender project. The dataset's website provides detailed information on the generation process and model assumptions. The dataset is therefore also intended to be used for the suitability analysis of simulated, synthetic datasets. The data set was developed as part of the Fraunhofer PREPARE program in the "ML4Safety" project with the funding code PREPARE 40-02702, as well as funded by the "Invest BW" funding program of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Tourism as part of the "FeinSyn" research project.