Overview
This data set contains approximately 2.5 million camera trap images from various projects across New Zealand. These projects were run by various organizations and took place in a diverse range of habitats using a variety of trail camera brands/models. Most images have been labeled by project staff and then verified by volunteers.
Labels are provided for 97 categories, primarily at the species level. For example, the most common labels are mouse (49% of images), possum (6.7%), and rat (5.5%). No empty images are provided, but some can be made available upon request. A full list of species and associated image counts is available here.
This dataset is a subset of a larger collection; an expanded version of this data can be downloaded directly from:
s3://doc-trail-camera-footage
We will periodically update the LILA dataset to keep up with the source bucket, but if you need the latest and largest, consider downloading directly from the source.
License and contact information
For questions about this data set, contact Joris Tinnemans.
This data set is released under the Community Data License Agreement (permissive variant).
Data format
Annotations (including species tags and unique location identifiers) are provided in COCO Camera Traps format.
Species information is also present in folder names (e.g. “AIV/yellow_eyed_penguin”), and location identifiers are also available in the EXIF “ImageDescription” tag for each image.
For information about mapping this dataset’s categories to a common taxonomy, see this page.
Downloading the data
Metadata is available here.
