Thermal Visual Paired Dataset

This is a dataset having paired thermal-visual images collected over 1.5 years from different locations in Chitrakoot, India and Prayagraj, India. The images can be broadly classified into greenery, urban, historical buildings and crowd data.

The crowd data was collected from the Maha Kumbh Mela 2019, Prayagraj, which is the largest religious fair in the world and is held every 6 years.

 This dataset is partly supported by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Govt of India grant 2535/DIPR-II/MD/CARS-01 with the project title "Develop a method for Design and Development of Software Package(s) for Image Illumination Normalization and Coloring of IR images"

The work associated with this database, which details the registration method, the overall logic behind the creation of this database, resizing factors and the reason why there are unregistered images, is a work on thermal image registration that has been published at the IEEE Conference INCET 2022.

We ask that you refer to this work when using this database for your work.

A Simple Mutual Information based Registration Method for Thermal-Optical Image Pairs applied on a Novel Dataset

For more information on the dataset and how the files are arranged, please refer to the README file