| license: cc-by-4.0 | |
| language: | |
| - en | |
| doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14185684 | |
| - **Paper:**: [arXiv:2505.22353](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22353) | |
| ## VME Dataset | |
| Vehicles in the Middle East (VME) is a satellite imagery dataset built for vehicle detection in the Middle East. | |
| [comment]: # "VME images and their associated annotations can be used for **academic purposes only**." | |
| VME images (**satellite_images** folder) are under [**CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license**](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) and available for download on [**Zenodo repository**](https://zenodo.org/records/14185684), we also release VME ground-truth annotations and the scripts associated for constructing CDSI **(annotations_HBB, annotations_OBB, CDSI_construction_scripts)** under [**CC BY 4.0 license**](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which are available on [**Zenodo repository**](https://zenodo.org/records/14185684) and here. | |
| This repository consists of: | |
| 1. VME_annotations, which has: | |
| * annotations_OBB: It holds TXT files in YOLO format with Oriented Bounding Box (OBB) annotations. Each annotation file is named after the corresponding image name. | |
| * annotations_HBB: This component contains HBB annotation files in JSON file formatted in MS-COCO format defined by four values in pixels (x_min, y_min, width, height) of training, validation, and test splits. | |
| * satellite_images: This folder consists of VME images of size 512x512 in PNG format. (**The VME images are available in the [**Zenodo repository**](https://zenodo.org/records/14185684)**) |