# CURE-OR: Challenging Unreal and Real Environments for Object Recognition

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.08293 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.08293/

## Key facts

- Cited by 19 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 18 Oct 2018.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

In this paper, we introduce a large-scale, controlled, and multi-platform object recognition dataset denoted as Challenging Unreal and Real Environments for Object Recognition (CURE-OR). In this dataset, there are 1,000,000 images of 100 objects with varying size, color, and texture that are positioned in five different orientations and captured using five devices including a webcam, a DSLR, and three smartphone cameras in real-world (real) and studio (unreal) environments. The controlled challenging conditions include underexposure, overexposure, blur, contrast, dirty lens, image noise, resizing, and loss of color information. We utilize CURE-OR dataset to test recognition APIs-Amazon Rekognition and Microsoft Azure Computer Vision- and show that their performance significantly degrades under challenging conditions. Moreover, we investigate the relationship between object recognition and image quality and show that objective quality algorithms can estimate recognition performance under certain photometric challenging conditions. The dataset is publicly available at https://ghassanalregib.com/cure-or/.