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Introduced by Isola et al. in What makes an image memorable?22 Aug 2011 archive 2025-07-28

When glancing at a magazine, or browsing the Internet, we are continuously being exposed to photographs. Despite of this overflow of visual information, humans are extremely good at remembering thousands of pictures along with some of their visual details. But not all images are equal in memory. Some stitch to our minds, and other are forgotten. In this paper we focus on the problem of predicting how memorable an image will be. We show that memorability is a stable property of an image that is shared across different viewers. We introduce a database for which we have measured the probability that each picture will be remembered after a single view. We analyze image features and labels that contribute to making an image memorable, and we train a predictor based on global image descriptors. We find that predicting image memorability is a task that can be addressed with current computer vision techniques. Whereas making memorable images is a challenging task in visualization and photography, this work is a first attempt to quantify this useful quality of images.

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Papers archive 2025-07-28

10 shown of 10 papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 31. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

DateSamples run Syntology
EVA-CLIP-18B: Scaling CLIP to 18 Billion Parameters 2 1 6 Feb 2024 ran 1 of 6 samples (5 unverified)
Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision 82 1 26 Feb 2021 ran 16 of 20 samples (4 unverified; 16 pointer-only for licence)
From Generalized zero-shot learning to long-tail with class descriptors 1 3 5 Apr 2020 not harvested
Decoupling Representation and Classifier for Long-Tailed Recognition 4 1 21 Oct 2019 ran 2 of 2 samples (0 unverified; 2 pointer-only for licence)
Learning Imbalanced Datasets with Label-Distribution-Aware Margin Loss 7 1 18 Jun 2019 ran 2 of 11 samples (9 unverified; 3 pointer-only for licence)
Generalized Zero- and Few-Shot Learning via Aligned Variational Autoencoders 1 4 1 Jun 2019 not harvested
TAFE-Net: Task-Aware Feature Embeddings for Low Shot Learning 1 1 11 Apr 2019 ran 1 of 3 samples (2 unverified)
Learning Robust Visual-Semantic Embeddings 0 1 17 Mar 2017 not harvested
Learning Visual N-Grams from Web Data 0 1 29 Dec 2016 not harvested
Synthesized Classifiers for Zero-Shot Learning 2 1 2 Mar 2016 ran 0 of 3 samples (3 unverified; 2 pointer-only for licence)

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

License archive 2025-07-28

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Modalities archive 2025-07-28

Languages archive 2025-07-28

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Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • SUN
  • SUN - 0-Shot
  • SUN-LT

3 variant names, as the archive lists them.

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