WoodScape: A Multi-Task, Multi-Camera Fisheye Dataset for Autonomous Driving

Senthil Yogamani, Ciaran Hughes, Jonathan Horgan, Ganesh Sistu, Padraig Varley, Derek O'Dea, Michal Uricar, Stefan Milz, Martin Simon, Karl Amende, Christian Witt, Hazem Rashed, Sumanth Chennupati, Sanjaya Nayak, Saquib Mansoor, Xavier Perrotton, Patrick Perez; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019, pp. 9308-9318

Fisheye cameras are commonly employed for obtaining a large field of view in surveillance, augmented reality and in particular automotive applications. In spite of their prevalence, there are few public datasets for detailed evaluation of computer vision algorithms on fisheye images. We release the first extensive fisheye automotive dataset, WoodScape, named after Robert Wood who invented the fisheye camera in 1906. WoodScape comprises of four surround view cameras and nine tasks including segmentation, depth estimation, 3D bounding box detection and soiling detection. Semantic annotation of 40 classes at the instance level is provided for over 10,000 images and annotation for other tasks are provided for over 100,000 images. With WoodScape, we would like to encourage the community to adapt computer vision models for fisheye camera instead of using naive rectification.