Datasets:

matclint
/

vip-image-level

license: cc-by-4.0
pretty_name: VIP Image-Level
annotations_creators:
  - crowdsourced
task_categories:
  - other
tags:
  - image
  - computer-vision
  - pairwise-ranking

VIP Image-Level

VIP: Finding Important People in Images (CVPR 2015)

Dataset Summary

Pairwise ground-truth importance comparisons between two people in the same image.

Comparisons: 538
Data file: data/comparisons.jsonl

Each JSONL row is a complete comparison. The two relative_importance values are normalized within that row and sum to 1. They are not absolute scores and should not be compared directly across unrelated comparisons.

Data Fields

Field	Description
`comparison_id`	Stable identifier for the person pair.
`image.image_id`	VIP image identifier.
`image.source_filename`	Original source-image filename used by the optional downloader.
`image.media_path`	Relative path expected by the local viewer.
`image.width`, `image.height`	Dimensions of the task image in pixels.
`person_a.person_id`, `person_b.person_id`	Person identifiers within the image.
`person_a.bbox_xywh`, `person_b.bbox_xywh`	Face bounding boxes as `[x, y, width, height]` in task-image pixels.
`person_a.relative_importance`, `person_b.relative_importance`	Normalized pair-relative importance values that sum to 1.
`label`	More important side: `a`, `b`, or `tie`.

Bounding boxes identify faces. They preserve the original release coordinates and may extend beyond an image boundary when a face is partially outside the frame. Clip boxes to the corresponding image dimensions before cropping.

Example

{
  "comparison_id": "00001-2-3",
  "image": {
    "image_id": "00001",
    "source_filename": "506467518_537b81ce37_199_34189125@N00.jpg",
    "media_path": "task_flickr/00001.jpg",
    "width": 600,
    "height": 401
  },
  "person_a": {
    "person_id": 2,
    "bbox_xywh": [
      256.0,
      73.0,
      121.0,
      122.0
    ],
    "relative_importance": 0.9
  },
  "person_b": {
    "person_id": 3,
    "bbox_xywh": [
      393.0,
      156.0,
      44.0,
      44.0
    ],
    "relative_importance": 0.1
  },
  "label": "a"
}

Media Access

Raw source media is not redistributed in this dataset release. The vip package provides helpers for preparing locally sourced media and building the viewer.

License

VIP comparison labels, relative-importance scores, face bounding boxes, timestamps, and release metadata are licensed under CC BY 4.0. Upstream source media is not covered by this license and is not redistributed with the dataset.

Tools

See mclint/vip for dataset loaders, evaluation utilities, media helpers, and local viewers.

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite the CVPR 2015 paper:

@InProceedings{Mathialagan_2015_CVPR,
author = {Solomon Mathialagan, Clint and Gallagher, Andrew C. and Batra, Dhruv},
title = {VIP: Finding Important People in Images},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
month = {June},
year = {2015},
doi = {10.1109/CVPR.2015.7299119}
}