Overview
RarePlanes is a unique open-source machine learning dataset from CosmiQ Works and AI.Reverie that incorporates both real and synthetically generated satellite imagery. The RarePlanes dataset specifically focuses on the value of AI.Reverie synthetic data to aid computer vision algorithms in their ability to automatically detect aircraft and their attributes in satellite imagery.
Data Collection
The real portion of the dataset consists of 253 Maxar WorldView-3 satellite images spanning 112 locations with ~14,700 hand annotated aircraft. The accompanying synthetic dataset is generated via AI.Reverie’s simulation platform and features 50,000 synthetic satellite images with over 600,000 aircraft annotations. Both the real and synthetically generated aircraft feature 10 fine grain attributes including: aircraft length, wingspan, wing-shape, wing-position, FAA wingspan class, propulsion, number of engines, number of vertical-stabilizers, if it has canards, and aircraft role.
Data Annotation
Each aircraft is labeled in a diamond style with annotators instructed to label the nose, left-wing, tail, and right-wing in order. This annotation style has the advantage of being simplistic, easily reproducible, convertible to a bounding box, and ensures that aircraft are consistently annotated as other formats can often lead to imprecise labeling. Furthermore, this annotation style enables us to pull out two valuable features of aircraft: Their length and wingspan.
Data Format
Imagery: .tif, .png Labels: .geojson, .json Metadata: .xml, .csv, .txt
Citation
@misc{RarePlanes_Dataset,
title={RarePlanes Dataset},
author={Shermeyer, Jacob and Hossler, Thomas and Van Etten, Adam and Hogan, Daniel and Lewis,
Ryan and Kim, Daeil}, organization = {In-Q-Tel - CosmiQ Works and AI.Reverie}, month
= {June},
year = {2020} }
@article{RarePlanes_Paper,
title={RarePlanes: Synthetic Data Takes Flight},
author={Shermeyer, Jacob and Hossler, Thomas and Van Etten, Adam and Hogan,
Daniel and Lewis, Ryan and Kim, Daeil}, organization = {In-Q-Tel - CosmiQ Works and AI.Reverie},
month = {June},
year = {2020} }