VisualData: A Search Engine for Computer Vision Datasets

Algorithms, computation and visual data are the three pillars of computer vision (CV). Researchers, institutions and open source communities have produced sophisticated algorithms and open-sourced code; while global tech giants' supercharged cloud platforms provide all the computational power CV researchers require. However, efficiently sourcing visual data -- particularly images with high-quality annotations -- remains a challenge. Building large datasets is a time-consuming and labor-intensive task which challenges entities with limited budgets. There are hundreds of open visual datasets out there, but searching across them and their millions of entries is not a simple task.