Penguin dataset

The penguin dataset is a collection of images of penguin colonies in Antarctica coming from the larger penguin watch project, which was setup with the purpose of monitoring their changes in population. The images are taken by fixed cameras in over 40 different locations, which have been capturing an image per hour for several years. In order to track the colony sizes, the number of penguins in each of the images in the dataset is required. So far, the penguin count has been done with the help of citizen scientists on the Penguin Watch site by Zooniverse, where interested users can place dots on top of the penguins. Here we release part of this data to the vision community in order to learn from the crowd-sourced dot-annotations to automatically annotate these images.

For more information about the project, please visit Penguin Watch.