One Million Flickr Images With Text Descriptions

Encompassing over 1 million images with associated text descriptions extracted from Flickr. It is designed for image-to-text tasks and was created by the author 'vicenteor'.

Use Cases

• Train an image captioning model on over 1 million image-text pairs.
• Fine-tune a vision-language model using the text descriptions associated with each image.
• Analyze the relationship between visual content and descriptive language across a large-scale collection.

Strengths

• Over 1 million images provide a substantial scale for training.
• Text descriptions are available for each image, enabling supervised learning for captioning.
• The dataset is specifically tagged for the 'image-to-text' task category.

Limitations

• The specific columns and data structure are unknown, complicating direct usage.
• The geographic origin is indicated as 'us', which may introduce regional bias.
• The license terms are unspecified, creating uncertainty for commercial use.

Provenance

Source

Images and captions were extracted from Flickr.

Collection Method

Text descriptions were extracted from Flickr, as indicated by the source datasets tag.

Freshness

The dataset was last updated on January 18, 2024.

Geography

The dataset region is tagged as 'us'.