YFCC100M: The New Data in Multimedia Research
This dataset addresses the need for large-scale, publicly available multimedia data for researchers and engineers, though it is incremental as it builds on existing data sources like Flickr.
The authors introduced the YFCC100M dataset, the largest public multimedia collection with 100 million Creative Commons-licensed photos and videos, to provide a comprehensive resource for multimedia research and enable new challenges in the field.
We present the Yahoo Flickr Creative Commons 100 Million Dataset (YFCC100M), the largest public multimedia collection that has ever been released. The dataset contains a total of 100 million media objects, of which approximately 99.2 million are photos and 0.8 million are videos, all of which carry a Creative Commons license. Each media object in the dataset is represented by several pieces of metadata, e.g. Flickr identifier, owner name, camera, title, tags, geo, media source. The collection provides a comprehensive snapshot of how photos and videos were taken, described, and shared over the years, from the inception of Flickr in 2004 until early 2014. In this article we explain the rationale behind its creation, as well as the implications the dataset has for science, research, engineering, and development. We further present several new challenges in multimedia research that can now be expanded upon with our dataset.