Commonly used test image sets In the image analysis literature there are a variety of ways people show the usefulness of their method. For example, performance on an ideal signal corrupted by noise, an artificial signal encompassing a range of relevant structures, or real world images.

What are some commonly used test image sets for the following methods?


Line and edge detection
Corner and junction detection
Segmentation
Optical flow
English / Chinese character recognition
Handwriting author recognition
Stereo vision / image registration
Segmentation : Berkeley Segmentation Dataset and Benchmark

Stereo : Middlebury Stereo Datasets

Shape from specular flow - Shape from specular flow dataset

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