{"url":"/dataset/massachusetts-roads-dataset","name":"Massachusetts Roads Dataset","full_name":"Road and Building Detection Datasets - Massachusetts Roads Dataset","description_markdown":"The datasets introduced in Chapter 6 of my PhD thesis are below. See the thesis for more details. If you use any of these datasets for research purposes you should use the following citation in any resulting publications:\r\n\r\n```\r\n@phdthesis{MnihThesis,\r\n    author = {Volodymyr Mnih},\r\n    title = {Machine Learning for Aerial Image Labeling},\r\n    school = {University of Toronto},\r\n    year = {2013}\r\n}\r\n```","description_withheld":null,"homepage":"https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~vmnih/data/","introduced_date":"2013-04-10","introduced_date_note":null,"introduced_by":null,"license":null,"modalities":[],"tasks":[{"name":"Road Segmentation","url":"/task/road-segementation","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/road-segementation"}],"languages":[],"variants":["Massachusetts Roads Dataset"],"data_loaders":[],"num_papers_in_archive":7,"source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28"},"benchmarks":[{"leaderboard":"/sota/road-segementation-on-massachusetts-roads","task":"Road Segmentation","dataset_variant":"Massachusetts Roads Dataset","rows":2,"metrics":["IoU","F1","APLS"],"first_row_in_archive_order":{"model":"RSM-SS","paper":"/paper/rs-mamba-for-large-remote-sensing-image-dense","metrics":{"F1":"80.49","IoU":"67.35"},"code_links":[{"title":"walking-shadow/Official_Remote_Sensing_Mamba","url":"https://github.com/walking-shadow/Official_Remote_Sensing_Mamba"}]},"note":"rows are the archive's own order at snapshot; nothing here re-ranks them"}],"papers_with_a_benchmark_row":[{"paper":"/paper/rs-mamba-for-large-remote-sensing-image-dense","title":"RS-Mamba for Large Remote Sensing Image Dense Prediction","date":"2024-04-03","rows_on_this_dataset":1,"code_links":1,"syntology":{"read_at":"2026-09-24T18:15:14+00:00","samples_harvested":6,"samples_ran":2,"samples_unverified":4,"pointer_only_for_licence":6,"claim":"Per-sample execution on synthesized fixtures; not a correctness claim."}},{"paper":"/paper/spin-road-mapper-extracting-roads-from-aerial","title":"SPIN Road Mapper: Extracting Roads from Aerial Images via Spatial and Interaction Space Graph Reasoning for Autonomous Driving","date":"2021-09-16","rows_on_this_dataset":1,"code_links":1,"syntology":null}],"syntology_totals":{"read_at":"2026-09-24T18:15:14+00:00","papers_with_samples":1,"samples_harvested":6,"samples_ran":2,"samples_unverified":4,"pointer_only_for_licence":6,"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."}