Dataset Description

A dataset containing hundreds of millions of images gathered from publicly available outdoor webcams.

Dataset Access

If you want access to the AMOS dataset, please submit a request. This is a large (~55 TB), messy dataset. If you want something smaller and cleaner, you may be interested in the SkyFinder Dataset. It contains AMOS images from a subset of stable cameras.

Dataset Citation

If you use the dataset, please cite the following publications:

1. Jacobs N, Burgin W, Fridrich N, Abrams A, Miskell K, Braswell BH, Richardson AD, Pless R. 2009. The Global Network of Outdoor Webcams: Properties and Applications. In: ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL). 111–120. DOI: 10.1145/1653771.1653789.
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   @inproceedings{jacobs09webcamgis,
     author = {Jacobs, Nathan and Burgin, Walker and Fridrich, Nick and Abrams, Austin and Miskell, Kylia and Braswell, Bobby H. and Richardson, Andrew D. and Pless, Robert},
     booktitle = {ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL)},
     title = {The Global Network of Outdoor Webcams: Properties and Applications},
     year = {2009},
     month = nov,
     note = {Acceptance rate: 20.9\%},
     pages = {111--120},
     annotation = {dataset_amos,spotlight,ugrad,webcam,timelapse,cameranetwork,calibration,social_media},
     bdsk-url-1 = {https://doi.org/10.1145/1653771.1653789},
     date-modified = {2020-03-31 16:58:07 -0400},
     doi = {10.1145/1653771.1653789},
     pdf = {https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B8zdqGHo5lmDN9cRO_j2RMmhQPQ29Drm/view?usp=sharing},
     pubtype = {oral presentation},
     thumbnail = {/thumbnails/webcam_network.jpg}
   }
   

2. Jacobs N, Roman N, Pless R. 2007. Consistent Temporal Variations in Many Outdoor Scenes. In: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 1–6. DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2007.383258.
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   @inproceedings{jacobs07amos,
     author = {Jacobs, Nathan and Roman, Nathaniel and Pless, Robert},
     booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
     title = {Consistent Temporal Variations in Many Outdoor Scenes},
     year = {2007},
     month = jun,
     note = {Acceptance rate: 23.4\%},
     pages = {1--6},
     annotation = {dataset_amos,spotlight,ugrad,webcam,timelapse,dimensionality},
     bdsk-url-1 = {https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2007.383258},
     doi = {10.1109/CVPR.2007.383258},
     pdf = {https://drive.google.com/file/d/1azQYzShOnt1y8TwU4VoWOW8kkYP9mM9S/view?usp=sharing},
     project = {/research/global-webcam-archive/},
     thumbnail = {/thumbnails/consistent.jpg}
   }
   

Related Publication(s)

1. Rafique MU, Zhang Y, Brodie B, Jacobs N. 2021. Unifying Guided and Unguided Outdoor Image Synthesis. In: New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement (IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops). 776–785. DOI: 10.1109/CVPRW53098.2021.00087.
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   @inproceedings{rafique2021unifying,
     annotation = {webcam,amos,synthesis,spotlight},
     author = {Rafique, Muhammad Usman and Zhang, Yu and Brodie, Benjamin and Jacobs, Nathan},
     title = {Unifying Guided and Unguided Outdoor Image Synthesis},
     booktitle = {New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement (IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops)},
     month = jun,
     doi = {10.1109/CVPRW53098.2021.00087},
     project = {http://urafique.com/un_guided/},
     thumbnail = {/thumbnails/guided_unguided.jpg},
     pdf = {https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2021W/NTIRE/papers/Rafique_Unifying_Guided_and_Unguided_Outdoor_Image_Synthesis_CVPRW_2021_paper.pdf},
     year = {2021},
     pages = {776--785}
   }
   

2. Zhai M, Salem T, Greenwell C, Workman S, Pless R, Jacobs N. 2018. Learning Geo-Temporal Image Features. In: British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC).
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   @inproceedings{zhai2018geotemporal,
     annotation = {career,localization,amos,webcam,spotlight,social_media},
     author = {Zhai, Menghua and Salem, Tawfiq and Greenwell, Connor and Workman, Scott and Pless, Robert and Jacobs, Nathan},
     booktitle = {British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)},
     note = {Acceptance rate: 29.5\%},
     pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.07499},
     thumbnail = {/thumbnails/when_where.jpg},
     title = {Learning Geo-Temporal Image Features},
     year = {2018}
   }
   

3. Islam MT, Jacobs N, Wu H, Souvenir R. 2013. Images+Weather: Collection, Validation, and Refinement. In: IEEE CVPR Workshop on Ground Truth. 1–7.
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   @inproceedings{islam13webcamweather,
     annotation = {workshop,amos,webcam,weather,contextualeyes,timelapse},
     author = {Islam, Mohammad T. and Jacobs, Nathan and Wu, Hui and Souvenir, Richard},
     booktitle = {IEEE CVPR Workshop on Ground Truth},
     note = {Acceptance rate: 67\%},
     pages = {1--7},
     pdf = {https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vpKID3O634HV-2gQQTnb3B81x9FJ6csq/view?usp=sharing},
     title = {{Images+Weather}: Collection, Validation, and Refinement},
     year = {2013}
   }
   

4. Murdock C, Jacobs N, Pless R. 2013. Webcam2Satellite: Estimating Cloud Maps from Webcam Imagery. In: IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV). 214–221. DOI: 10.1109/WACV.2013.6475021.
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   @inproceedings{murdock13clouds,
     annotation = {workshop,amos,timelapse,clouds,webcams,ugrad,contextualeyes,remote_sensing},
     author = {Murdock, Calvin and Jacobs, Nathan and Pless, Robert},
     booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)},
     doi = {10.1109/WACV.2013.6475021},
     note = {Acceptance rate: 40\%},
     pages = {214--221},
     pdf = {https://www2.seas.gwu.edu/%7epless/papers/wacv2013Clouds.pdf},
     title = {{Webcam2Satellite}: Estimating Cloud Maps from Webcam Imagery},
     year = {2013},
     bdsk-url-1 = {https://doi.org/10.1109/WACV.2013.6475021}
   }
   

5. Jacobs N, Burgin W, Fridrich N, Abrams A, Miskell K, Braswell BH, Richardson AD, Pless R. 2009. The Global Network of Outdoor Webcams: Properties and Applications. In: ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL). 111–120. DOI: 10.1145/1653771.1653789.
   bibtex | paper | doi

   close  

   @inproceedings{jacobs09webcamgis,
     author = {Jacobs, Nathan and Burgin, Walker and Fridrich, Nick and Abrams, Austin and Miskell, Kylia and Braswell, Bobby H. and Richardson, Andrew D. and Pless, Robert},
     booktitle = {ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL)},
     title = {The Global Network of Outdoor Webcams: Properties and Applications},
     year = {2009},
     month = nov,
     note = {Acceptance rate: 20.9\%},
     pages = {111--120},
     annotation = {dataset_amos,spotlight,ugrad,webcam,timelapse,cameranetwork,calibration,social_media},
     bdsk-url-1 = {https://doi.org/10.1145/1653771.1653789},
     date-modified = {2020-03-31 16:58:07 -0400},
     doi = {10.1145/1653771.1653789},
     pdf = {https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B8zdqGHo5lmDN9cRO_j2RMmhQPQ29Drm/view?usp=sharing},
     pubtype = {oral presentation},
     thumbnail = {/thumbnails/webcam_network.jpg}
   }
   

6. Jacobs N, Roman N, Pless R. 2007. Consistent Temporal Variations in Many Outdoor Scenes. In: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 1–6. DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2007.383258.
   bibtex | paper | website | doi

   close  

   @inproceedings{jacobs07amos,
     author = {Jacobs, Nathan and Roman, Nathaniel and Pless, Robert},
     booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
     title = {Consistent Temporal Variations in Many Outdoor Scenes},
     year = {2007},
     month = jun,
     note = {Acceptance rate: 23.4\%},
     pages = {1--6},
     annotation = {dataset_amos,spotlight,ugrad,webcam,timelapse,dimensionality},
     bdsk-url-1 = {https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2007.383258},
     doi = {10.1109/CVPR.2007.383258},
     pdf = {https://drive.google.com/file/d/1azQYzShOnt1y8TwU4VoWOW8kkYP9mM9S/view?usp=sharing},
     project = {/research/global-webcam-archive/},
     thumbnail = {/thumbnails/consistent.jpg}
   }