Dataset Card: CAD + Retrieval Tables + SAM Embedding Databases
Dataset Summary
This dataset release provides supporting data and precomputed features for composition-aware image cropping research. It contains three main components:
- CAD Dataset: Weakly annotated images generated via ControlNet-based outpainting.
- Precomputed Retrieval Tables:
.ptfiles mapping each query image to its top-32 retrieved references from AVA and CGL. - Pre-extracted SAM Embedding Databases: Parquet files containing SAM image embeddings for efficient evaluation on GAIC, FLMS, and SACD.
The dataset is designed to support retrieval-augmented aesthetic image cropping, reference-based crop recommendation, and efficient benchmark evaluation without requiring users to recompute retrieval or SAM features from scratch.