{"url":"/dataset/banknote-net","name":"BankNote-Net","full_name":null,"description_markdown":"Millions of people around the world have low or no vision. Assistive software applications have been developed for a variety of day-to-day tasks, including currency recognition. To aid with this task, we present BankNote-Net, an open dataset for assistive currency recognition. The dataset consists of a total of 24,816 embeddings of banknote images captured in a variety of assistive scenarios, spanning 17 currencies and 112 denominations. These compliant embeddings were learned using supervised contrastive learning and a MobileNetV2 architecture, and they can be used to train and test specialized downstream models for any currency, including those not covered by our dataset or for which only a few real images per denomination are available (few-shot learning). We deploy a variation of this model for public use in the last version of the Seeing AI app developed by Microsoft, which has over a 100 thousand monthly active users.","description_withheld":null,"homepage":"https://github.com/microsoft/banknote-net","introduced_date":"2022-04-07","introduced_date_note":null,"introduced_by":{"paper":"/paper/banknote-net-open-dataset-for-assistive","title":"BankNote-Net: Open dataset for assistive universal currency recognition","first_author":"Felipe Oviedo","url":null},"license":{"name":"CDLA-Permissive-2.0","url":"https://spdx.org/licenses/CDLA-Permissive-2.0.html"},"modalities":[],"tasks":[{"name":"Image Classification","url":"/task/image-classification","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/image-classification"},{"name":"Few-Shot Learning","url":"/task/few-shot-learning","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/few-shot-learning"},{"name":"Few-Shot Object Detection","url":"/task/few-shot-object-detection","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/few-shot-object-detection"},{"name":"Contrastive Learning","url":"/task/contrastive-learning","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/contrastive-learning"}],"languages":[{"name":"English","url":"/datasets/language/english"}],"variants":["BankNote-Net"],"data_loaders":[{"repo":"https://github.com/microsoft/banknote-net","url":"https://github.com/microsoft/banknote-net","frameworks":["tf"]}],"num_papers_in_archive":1,"source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28"},"benchmarks":[],"papers_with_a_benchmark_row":[],"syntology_totals":{"read_at":"2026-09-25T09:33:49+00:00","papers_with_samples":0,"samples_harvested":0,"samples_ran":0,"samples_unverified":0,"pointer_only_for_licence":0,"papers_with_no_sample_that_ran":0,"note":"the per-paper counts above, summed; not a rate"},"papers_note":"The archive never published its papers-using-dataset list; these are papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks."}