How I Created a Dataset for Instance Segmentation from Scratch? - MLWhiz

Recently, I was looking for a toy dataset for my new book's chapter (you can subscribe to the updates here) on instance segmentation. And, I really wanted to have something like the Iris Dataset for Instance Segmentation so that I would be able to explain the model without worrying about the dataset too much. But, alas, it is not always possible to get a dataset that you are looking for. I actually ended up looking through various sources on the internet but inadvertently found that I would need to download a huge amount of data to get anything done. Given that is not at all the right way to go about any tutorial, I thought why not create my own dataset.