THE AIC THERMAL and VISIBLE NIGHT-TIME DATA SET
kindly provided by Ciarán Ó Conaire, Adaptive Information Cluster, Dublin, Ireland

General information:

This dataset contains two video sequences: one in the visible spectrum and one in thermal infrared. Both are compressed into MPEG-1 format and contain 8702 frames each. The thermal sequence was captured using a Raytheon Control-IR 2000B camera, imaged at wavelengths between 7 and 14 microns. The visible spectrum camera was a Panasonic WV-CP470. The video scene contains bike-racks, pedestrians, bicycles and vehicles. It was captured from a balcony in Dublin City University campus, Ireland. Thermally reflective glass was used as a beam-splitter. The thermal images were warped using a planar homography to align it with the visible spectrum images


Example images from the dataset: visible (left); registered infrared (right).


Daytime scene (to provide visual context)

Dataset download:

Visible Spectrum Video MPEG-1 format, (16MB)
Thermal Infrared Video MPEG-1 format, (52MB)

Acknowledgements:

The AIC Thermal and Visible Data Set may be used for research purposes. Publications using the AIC Data Set should:

  • Acknowledge the use of this dataset: i.e. AIC Thermal/Visible Night-time Dataset
  • Cite the following paper: Ó Conaire, C., O'Connor, N.E., Cooke, E., Smeaton, A.F.: Comparison of fusion methods for thermo-visual surveillance tracking. In: International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion 2006)
    • For more information about these images please contact Ciarán Ó Conaire.