NOTICE: Not all browsers are able to download files larger than 2 or 4 GB. You may download individual objects through the "object images" pages, or use a web crawler to download all objects. The "wget" command is able to download the tar files without problems if you use "wget --ignore-length http://aloi.science.uva.nl/tars/...tar", where "..." should be replaced by the filename of interest (see list below).

All collections are in lossless compressed png format. The size of the collection is large: 12GB for the illumination directions (ALOI-ILL), 6GB for the illumination color collection (ALOI-COL), 36GB for the viewing collection (ALOI-VIEW), and 1.5GB for the stereo collection (ALOI-STEREO).

Downloading the full-resolution color ALOI collection will provide you with 55GB of image data. Additionally, we provide downsampled versions, by a spatial factor 2 and 4, yielding a reduction in disk space by a factor 4 and 8, respectively. Furthermore, we provide grey value images (reducing the file size by a factor 4).

Please note that internet connections at universities typically have a bandwidth of 1GB per 20 minutes (at best 0.5GB/min).

If you use the collection for your research, please make a reference to:

J. M. Geusebroek, G. J. Burghouts, and A. W. M. Smeulders, The Amsterdam library of object images,
Int. J. Comput. Vision, 61(1), 103-112, January, 2005.

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Please consult the paper for all details on recording of the collection.