Fehr et al.

Notes on the Dataset

  • The pointclouds in the ROS bags contain some points with their color erroneously being black, i.e., it is clear from the scene that these surface points were not black in the real world. We filtered them out for our computations.

Detailed Information

General Information
NameFehr et al.
Release Year2017
Terms of UseUnclear
Access RequirementsNone
Dataset Size127.9 GB | Partial download is possible, i.e. the data is split into several files (e.g., epochs or data types)
DocumentationBetween medium-length (multi-paragraph) and short (multi-line) description. The reviewers disagreed on this
CodeNo
ApplicationsLong-term localization and mapping | Dynamic object detection, localization, and modelling
Detailed ApplicationsLong-term SLAM | dynamic object discovery
Acquisition
Number of Scenes3
Number of Epochs per Scene (minimum)4
Number of Epochs per Scene (median)9
Number of Epochs per Scene (maximum)10
General Scene TypeIndoor
Specific Scene TypeSingle room
LocationUnclear
Acquisition TypeDepth camera carried by person
Acquisition DeviceIntegrated RGB-D Camera
Acquisition PlatformGoogle Tango tablet (+ tripod in one case)
Scan IntervalMinutes to Days | Educated guess by the authors
Acquisition Months
Representation
Data RepresentationUnstructured, globally aligned (e.g., point cloud or ray cloud)
Specific Data RepresentationPoint cloud
File Format/EncodingROS bag
Raw DataRGBD
Additional DataMesh
Coordinate Systemm
Quality and Usability
RegistrationFinely registered
Number of Partial Epochs-
Unusable Data Reason-
SplitsNo
Per-Point Attributes
Intensity/ReflectivityNo
ColorYes
Semantic Labels-
Instance LabelsNo
Change Labels-
Statistics
Number of Points per Epoch (minimum)14M
Number of Points per Epoch (median)17M
Number of Points per Epoch (maximum)27M
Avg. Point Spacing (minimum)2.2mm
Avg. Point Spacing (median)3.1mm
Avg. Point Spacing (maximum)3.7mm
Avg. Change Points per Epoch-

Paper Reference 1

@inproceedings{fehr2017datasettsdfobjectdiscovery,
    author = {Fehr, Marius and Furrer, Fadri and Dryanovski, Ivan and Sturm, Jürgen and Gilitschenski, Igor and Siegwart, Roland and Cadena, Cesar},
    booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
    title = {TSDF-based change detection for consistent long-term dense reconstruction and dynamic object discovery},
    year = {2017},
    pages = {5237--5244},
    doi = {10.1109/ICRA.2017.7989614},
}