The Total-Text dataset is a collection of 1555 images with more than 3 different text orientations: Horizontal, Multi-Oriented, and Curved, one of a kind.
Released Datasets

Total Text Dataset
Star IJDAR 2020
Exclusively Dark Dataset
Star arXiv2017, CVIUThe Exclusively Dark (ExDARK) dataset is a collection of 7,363 natural low-light images with 12 object classes (similar to PASCAL VOC) annotated on both image class level and local object bounding boxes.

WikiArt Dataset
Star ICIP 2016In order to replicate or to have a fair comparison to our ICIP2016 paper, we created a "new" Wikiart dataset. All the images were obtained from WikiArt.org.

MalayaKew Plant Dataset
ICIP 2015MalayaKew (MK) Leaf dataset was collected at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England. It consists of scan-like images of leaves from 44 species classes. This dataset is very challenging as leaves from different species classes have very similar appearance.

CUTE80 Dataset
ESWA 2014We introduce the first curved text dataset to be made public, namely CUTE80 that consists of 80 curved text line images with complex background, perspective distortion effect and poor resolution effect (in circle, S, Z shaped text lines).

Pratheepan Human Skin Dataset
T-II 2012The images in this dataset are downloaded randomly from Google for human skin detection research. These images are captured with a range of different cameras using different colour enhancement and under different illuminations.