How I Created a Dataset for Instance Segmentation from Scratch?

Recently, I was looking for a toy dataset for my new book’s chapter (you can subscribe to the updates here ) on instance segmentation. And, I really wanted to have something like the Iris Dataset for Instance Segmentation so that I would be able to explain the model without worrying about the dataset too much. But, alas, it is not always possible to get a dataset that you are looking for.

I actually ended up looking through various sources on the internet but inadvertently found that I would need to download a huge amount of data to get anything done. Given that is not at all the right way to go about any tutorial, I thought why not create my own dataset.

In the end, it turned out to be the right decision as it was a fun task and as it provides an end to end perspective on what goes on in a real-world image detection/segmentation project.

This post is about creating your own custom dataset for Image Segmentation/Object Detection.