This dataset, called UFPR-AMR dataset, contains 2,000 images taken from inside a warehouse of the Energy Company of Paraná (Copel), which directly serves more than 4 million consuming units in the Brazilian state of Paraná. It has been introduced in our JEI paper [PDF].
The images were acquired with three different cameras and are available in the JPG format with a resolution between 2,340 × 4,160 and 3,120 × 4,160 pixels. The cameras used were: LG G3 D855, Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime and iPhone 6s.
The dataset is split into three sets: training (800 images), validation (400 images) and testing (800 images).
Every image has the following annotations available in a text file: the camera in which the image was taken, the counter’s position (x,y,w,h) and reading, as well as the position of each digit. All counters of the dataset (regardless of meter type) have 5 digits, and thus 10,000 digits were manually annotated. The full details are in our paper.
How to obtain the Dataset
The UFPR-AMR dataset is released for academic research only and is free to researchers from educational or research institutes for non-commercial purposes.
Please click here for more info about obtaining the dataset.
The annotations of the other public datasets used in our experiments are provided along with the UFPR-AMR dataset.
You can now check who is downloading our dataset (see here).
References
If you use the UFPR-AMR dataset in your research, please cite our paper:
- R. Laroca, V. Barroso, M. A. Diniz, G. R. Gonçalves, W. R. Schwartz, D. Menotti, “Convolutional Neural Networks for Automatic Meter Reading,” Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 28, no. 1, p. 013023, 2019. [Webpage] [SPIE Digital Library] [PDF] [BibTeX] [Copyright Notice]
You may also be interested in our new research, where we proposed an end-to-end approach for AMR in unconstrained scenarios and introduced the Copel-AMR dataset:
- R. Laroca, A. B. Araujo, L. A. Zanlorensi, E. C. de Almeida, D. Menotti, “Towards Image-based Automatic Meter Reading in Unconstrained Scenarios: A Robust and Efficient Approach,” IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 67569-67584, 2021. [Webpage] [IEEE Xplore] [PDF] [BibTeX]
Related publications
A list of all papers on AMR published by us can be seen here.
Contact
Please contact Rayson Laroca (rblsantos@inf.ufpr.br) with questions or comments.