---
license: unknown
tags:
- anomaly-detection
- steel
- pointer-card
pretty_name: Severstal Steel Defect Detection (pointer card)
---

# Severstal Steel Defect Detection — pointer card, not a data mirror

Metadata/citation card only. This was a **Kaggle competition** dataset; competition data terms
typically restrict redistribution outside Kaggle, and that could not be confirmed as permitted
here (Kaggle's rules page is JS-rendered and could not be verified programmatically). No files
are re-hosted in this repo.

## Access
- Official competition: https://www.kaggle.com/c/severstal-steel-defect-detection
- A pre-existing third-party HF mirror exists (unverified redistribution terms, use at your own
  discretion): `Voxel51/severstal_steel_defects`

## Contents
12,568+ grayscale images (512x256), 4 unlabeled defect classes, pixel-level (RLE) masks. Bare
flat steel, not painted — useful only as a defect-detection-methods reference, not a domain
match for the paint pilots.

**Action needed:** verify Kaggle competition rules directly (log in, check "Rules" tab) before
using for anything beyond personal research exploration.