Thermal image dataset for person detection - UNIRI-TID

We build an original dataset of thermal videos and images that simulate illegal movements around the border and in protected areas and are designed for training machines and deep learning models. The videos are recorded in areas around the forest, at night, in different weather conditions – in the clear weather, in the rain, and in the fog, and with people in different body positions (upright, hunched) and movement speeds (regu- lar walking, running) at different ranges from the camera. In addition to using standard camera lenses, telephoto lenses were also used to test their impact on the quality of thermal images and person detection in different weather conditions and distance from the camera. The obtained dataset comprises 7412 manually labeled images extracted from video frames captured in the long-wave infrared (LWIR) a segment of the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum.