COCO-style geographically unbiased image dataset for computer vision applications

One bias of significance for us is the data origin: most datasets are composed of data coming from developed countries. Facing this situation, and the need of data with local context in developing countries, we try here to adapt common data generation process to inclusive data, meaning data drawn from locations and cultural context that are unseen or poorly represented.

We chose to replicate MS COCO's data generation process, as it is well documented and easy to implement. Data was collected from January to April 2022 through Flickr platform. This dataset contains the results of our data collection process, as follows : 23 text files containing comma separated URLs for each of the 23 geographic zones identified in the UN M49 norm.