# The EuroCity Persons Dataset: A Novel Benchmark for Object Detection

Source: [The EuroCity Persons Dataset: A Novel Benchmark for Object Detection](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa65c81e209131cea0c7bc>)

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Authors: Markus Braun, Sebastian Krebs, Fabian Flohr, Dariu M. Gavrila

Published: 2018-05-18T13:17:46.000Z

## Abstract

Big data has had a great share in the success of deep learning in computer vision. Recent works suggest that there is significant further potential to increase object detection performance by utilizing even bigger datasets. In this paper, we introduce the EuroCity Persons dataset, which provides a large number of highly diverse, accurate and detailed annotations of pedestrians, cyclists and other riders in urban traffic scenes. The images for this dataset were collected on-board a moving vehicle in 31 cities of 12 European countries. With over 238200 person instances manually labeled in over 47300 images, EuroCity Persons is nearly one order of magnitude larger than person datasets used previously for benchmarking. The dataset furthermore contains a large number of person orientation annotations (over 211200). We optimize four state-of-the-art deep learning approaches (Faster R-CNN, R-FCN, SSD and YOLOv3) to serve as baselines for the new object detection benchmark. In experiments with previous datasets we analyze the generalization capabilities of these detectors when trained with the new dataset. We furthermore study the effect of the training set size, the dataset diversity (day- vs. night-time, geographical region), the dataset detail (i.e. availability of object orientation information) and the annotation quality on the detector performance. Finally, we analyze error sources and discuss the road ahead.

## Recorded benchmark results

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- [Day-to-Night Image Translation on ECP (val)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/day-to-night-image-translation-on-ecp-val.md>): Day-to-Night Image Translation; ECP (val); WD: 5.6.

## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.07193>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.07193.pdf>)