patryk-bartkowiak/SynGallery-abl0
SynGallery-abl0: fixed-environment baseline Rung 0 of the SynGallery instance-level artwork-recognition ablation ladder. 4,898 MET paintings × 5 camera viewpoints = 24,490 synthetic RGB images at 512×512, paired with their source photos and museum metadata. In this rung, the scene varies nothing — the gallery is one fixed configuration for all 24,490 images, while freezing wall/floor/roof textures + floor material, lighting, glass, frame variant/color, camera pose. Same schema… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/patryk-bartkowiak/SynGallery-abl0.
SynGallery-abl0: fixed-environment baseline
Rung 0 of the SynGallery instance-level artwork-recognition ablation ladder. 4,898 MET paintings × 5 camera viewpoints = 24,490 synthetic RGB images at 512×512, paired with their source photos and museum metadata.
In this rung, the scene varies nothing — the gallery is one fixed configuration for all 24,490 images, while freezing wall/floor/roof textures + floor material, lighting, glass, frame variant/color, camera pose. Same schema, source images and index↔painting mapping as every other rung — they differ only in which randomization factors are active.
The ablation ladder
Each rung unfreezes one more randomization factor; index maps to the same painting in every rung, so isolating a factor = diffing two adjacent rungs. Three factors vary in every rung by design: the painting image, its scale on the wall, and the placard.
Schema
A single train split, 4,898 rows — one row per scene, bundling everything about that scene: the MET source photo, the five camera views rendered from it, and the artwork's museum metadata.
Images are embedded bytes only; a render is identified by (index, camera) and the source painting by met_object_id. Rows are ordered by index. There is no held-out split — any row-level split is automatically painting-level, since all 5 views live in the same row.
Scene-randomization factors (wall/floor/roof textures, lighting, frame variant/color, glass presence, painting scale, placard) are baked into the renders but not individually labeled.
Provenance & licensing
Source paintings are photographs of artworks from the MET Open Access collection (CC0). One representative photo per MET object (paintings_train_images_unique.json manifest, consumed in order). Museum metadata is joined from the official MET Open Access `MetObjects.csv` (also CC0) by object id — the complete record, every field as its own column.
The dataset (the rendered images and their packaging) is released under CC BY 4.0 — please attribute the dataset and cite the accompanying paper. The 3D scene bakes in third-party PBR textures and HDRI environment maps; those assets remain under their respective licenses and are distributed here only as non-extractable, baked pixels.
Citation
A paper describing SynGallery is in preparation. Citation details (BibTeX) will be added here once available.
Acknowledgments
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This dataset was created in collaboration with ArtiCollect.
