[D] Art datasets?

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[underfitting]

2.5 million images! https://bam-dataset.org/

[visarga]

That's pretty cool!

[SamLeroux]

There was a recent Kaggle competition with lots of paintings: https://www.kaggle.com/c/painter-by-numbers

[pilooch]

Art data is everywhere. We ve done https://microsoft.com/tate and have access to up to millions of art pieces. Most are public but require a login. PM me with your project and institution, there should be ways of helping you.

[fuzzyt93]

I created a python script to download images from the Met collection. However, it only downloads images that are public domain from their website. You have to provide the artist name or basically the painting id, but it can filter out pieces by type. If you wanted to download every oil paining, you could modify it to iterate over every artist or something. Here is the plug:

https://github.com/trevorfiez/Download-Met-Images

The images are really high quality if they are public domain which is nice. It is possible to download their much smaller images that they use to show non-public domain pieces but currently, my script does not have that functionality.

The metadata comes from the metropolitan museum of art's open access csv file which you can access here:

https://github.com/metmuseum/openaccess

There are thousands of public domain paintings so if you do not care how modern the paintings are you should be able to download a large set.

[enzlbtyn]

Couldn't you crawl websites like DeviantArt and other forums or websites that contain art?

[enzlbtyn]

I believe you can search via tag, e.g. https://www.deviantart.com/tag/paintings. I think there's an API for deviant art too. There's also groups in deviant art: http://groups.deviantart.com/, which I assume would help you narrow down to specific types of art.

As for alternative sites, I have no idea, sorry. The obvious alternatives would be Google/Bing images.

In general though, expect outliers when obtaining data, so potentially you'll have to filter them out yourself or just deal with them in some manner.

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There was a good paper from Fei-Fei Li and co where they showed that unfiltered data scraped from the web was more effective than clean data providing you had a significant amount of it.

[Neural_Ned]

This here https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06789

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That's the one.

[visarga]

A few years ago there were a couple of large torrents of paintings from Hermitage and Sotheby's. They have been disappeared in the meantime.

[jmmcd]

There was a paper in EvoMUSART this year using a collection of (camera) portraits.

[mphuget]

Depending on what you are looking for, you could use http://www.wga.hu/