CommonCatalog CC-BY: 100 Million 4K Images with Synthetic Captions

CommonCatalog CC-BY provides approximately 100 million high-resolution images paired with synthetic captions, released by common-canvas in 2024. The collection originates from Yahoo Flickr data from 2014 and features images with resolutions up to 4k.

Use Cases

• Training text-to-image generative models using synthetic captions and 4k image data
• Fine-tuning vision-language models for automated image description tasks
• Benchmarking high-resolution image processing and compression algorithms

Strengths

• Scale of 100 million image-caption pairs
• High-resolution source material reaching 4k resolution
• Permissive CC-BY 4.0 licensing for broad utility

Limitations

• Captions are synthetically generated rather than human-authored, which may introduce model bias
• Temporal bias as the source image library dates back to 2014

Provenance

Source

Yahoo Flickr (2014) via Arxiv 2310.16825

Collection Method

Synthetic captioning of existing Creative Commons image collections

Time Range

2014

Freshness

Last updated May 2024; source images were originally collected in 2014.

Geography

Global