What datasets are commonly used in computer vision research?

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Several datasets are commonly used in computer vision research to train and evaluate models. ImageNet is a large-scale dataset with millions of labeled images across thousands of categories, widely used for image classification tasks. COCO (Common Objects in Context) provides annotated images for object detection, segmentation, and captioning. MNIST is a popular dataset for handwritten digit recognition. KITTI is used for autonomous driving research, offering data for tasks like object detection and tracking. These datasets provide a benchmark for comparing model performance and advancing the field of computer vision.

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