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Cityscapes: Semantic Understanding of Urban Street Scenes

Daimler AG / Max Planck Institute / TU Darmstadt (Cordts et al.) · Autonomous Driving & Urban Perception · 5,000 fine-annotated stereo images across 50 cities, 20,000 coarsely annotated frames

Autonomous Driving & Urban PerceptionCustom Research Non-Commercial License5,000 fine-annotated stereo images across 50 cities, 20,000 coarsely annotated framesregistration-required

Dataset Profile & Characteristics

Label Type:Pixel-level and instance-level semantic annotations across 30 visual classes
Languages:en
License Tier:non-commercial
Modalities:image, video

Intended Use

  • Benchmarking urban semantic segmentation, instance segmentation, and panoptic driving perception

Prohibited / Discouraged Use

  • Direct autonomous driving deployment without nighttime and adverse weather adaptation

Bias, Leakage & Privacy Risk Analysis

Privacy / Sensitive Data Risks:

Real-world German and European street driving scenes containing pedestrians and vehicle license plates.

Known Bias:

Central European daytime good-weather urban driving conditions.

Known Benchmark Leakage:

Video sequences from same driving route must be strictly kept in same split to prevent video correlation leak.

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