Example computer vision classification training data derived from British Library 19th Century Books Image collection

Example computer vision classification training data derived from British Library 19th Century Books Image collection

This dataset provides training data for image classification for use in a computer vision workshop. The images are derived from 'Digitised Books - Images identified as Embellishments. c. 1510 - c. 1900. JPG' from the year '1839'.

Currently, included are four folders containing a variety of images derived from the BL books corpus.

• 'cv_workshop_exercise_data' include images of: 'building', 'people', 'coat of arms'
• 'humancats' contains images of humans and images of cats

The 'fashion' and 'portraits' folders both contain images of people organised into 'female' and 'male'. These labels were annotated by a single annotator and these categories may themselves not be meaningful. They are included in the workshop data as a point of discussion about how we should label data both in general and when working with historical data. 

This data is intended primarily as an educational resource.