Severstal - Dataset Ninja

Introduction #

Released 2019-07-26 ·Alexey Grishin, BorisV, iBardintsevet al.

The authors of the Severstal: Steel Defect Detection dataset acknowledge that steel holds a paramount position as one of the most vital building materials in modern construction. Its resilience against both natural elements and wear caused by human activities has rendered it indispensable worldwide. In the pursuit of enhancing the efficiency of steel production, the Severstal competition aims to play a pivotal role in the detection of defects within the steel production process.

The intricate process of producing flat sheet steel demands precision and care at every step, from heating and rolling to drying and cutting. Numerous machines come into contact with flat steel before it’s deemed ready for use. At present, Severstal employs images from high-frequency cameras to drive a defect detection algorithm.

In this competition, participants are tasked with aiding engineers in refining this algorithm by localizing and categorizing surface defects on steel sheets.
This competition aims to predict the location and type of defects found in steel manufacturing by segmenting and classifying the defects in the test set.

Each image may have no defects, a defect of a single class, or defects of multiple classes. There are 3 different defect classes.

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Summary #

Severstal: Steel Defect Detection 2019 Challenge is a dataset for instance segmentation, semantic segmentation, and object detection tasks. It is used in the surface defect detection domain, and in the manufacturing industry.

The dataset consists of 18074 images with 19958 labeled objects belonging to 4 different classes including defect_3, defect_1, defect_4, and other: defect_2.

Images in the Severstal dataset have pixel-level instance segmentation annotations. Due to the nature of the instance segmentation task, it can be automatically transformed into a semantic segmentation (only one mask for every class) or object detection (bounding boxes for every object) tasks. There are 11408 (63% of the total) unlabeled images (i.e. without annotations). There are 2 splits in the dataset: train (12568 images) and test (5506 images). The dataset was released in 2019 by the Severstal, Russia.

Here is the visualized example grid with animated annotations:

Explore #

Severstal dataset has 18074 images. Click on one of the examples below or open "Explore" tool anytime you need to view dataset images with annotations. This tool has extended visualization capabilities like zoom, translation, objects table, custom filters and more. Hover the mouse over the images to hide or show annotations.

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Have a look at 18074 images

View images along with annotations and tags, search and filter by various parameters

Class balance #

There are 4 annotation classes in the dataset. Find the general statistics and balances for every class in the table below. Click any row to preview images that have labels of the selected class. Sort by column to find the most rare or prevalent classes.

Rows 1-4 of 4

Class ㅤ	Images ㅤ	Objects ㅤ	Count on image average	Area on image average
defect_3➔ mask	5150	14648	2.84	6.22%
defect_1➔ mask	897	3082	3.44	1.06%
defect_4➔ mask	801	1907	2.38	8.39%
defect_2➔ mask	247	321	1.3	0.82%

Co-occurrence matrix #

Co-occurrence matrix is an extremely valuable tool that shows you the images for every pair of classes: how many images have objects of both classes at the same time. If you click any cell, you will see those images. We added the tooltip with an explanation for every cell for your convenience, just hover the mouse over a cell to preview the description.

Images #

Explore every single image in the dataset with respect to the number of annotations of each class it has. Click a row to preview selected image. Sort by any column to find anomalies and edge cases. Use horizontal scroll if the table has many columns for a large number of classes in the dataset.

Object distribution #

Interactive heatmap chart for every class with object distribution shows how many images are in the dataset with a certain number of objects of a specific class. Users can click cell and see the list of all corresponding images.

Class sizes #

The table below gives various size properties of objects for every class. Click a row to see the image with annotations of the selected class. Sort columns to find classes with the smallest or largest objects or understand the size differences between classes.

Rows 1-4 of 4

Class	Object count	Avg area	Max area	Min area	Min height	Min height	Max height	Max height	Avg height	Avg height	Min width	Min width	Max width	Max width
defect_3 mask	14648	2.19%	80.53%	0%	1px	0.39%	256px	100%	155px	60.74%	1px	0.06%	1600px	100%
defect_1 mask	3082	0.31%	4.26%	0.02%	13px	5.08%	256px	100%	58px	22.55%	6px	0.38%	180px	11.25%
defect_4 mask	1907	3.52%	41.05%	0%	1px	0.39%	256px	100%	113px	44%	1px	0.06%	1234px	77.12%
defect_2 mask	321	0.64%	2.35%	0.05%	48px	18.75%	256px	100%	171px	66.66%	6px	0.38%	45px	2.81%

Spatial Heatmap #

The heatmaps below give the spatial distributions of all objects for every class. These visualizations provide insights into the most probable and rare object locations on the image. It helps analyze objects' placements in a dataset.

Objects #

Table contains all 19958 objects. Click a row to preview an image with annotations, and use search or pagination to navigate. Sort columns to find outliers in the dataset.

Rows 1-10 of 19958

Object ID ㅤ	Class ㅤ	Image name click row to open	Image size height x width	Height ㅤ	Height ㅤ	Width ㅤ	Width ㅤ	Area ㅤ
1➔	defect_3 mask	7378f1d94.jpg	256 x 1600	41px	16.02%	44px	2.75%	0.32%
2➔	defect_3 mask	7378f1d94.jpg	256 x 1600	39px	15.23%	25px	1.56%	0.17%
3➔	defect_3 mask	7378f1d94.jpg	256 x 1600	60px	23.44%	40px	2.5%	0.46%
4➔	defect_3 mask	8b9681587.jpg	256 x 1600	24px	9.38%	58px	3.62%	0.27%
5➔	defect_3 mask	8b9681587.jpg	256 x 1600	72px	28.12%	118px	7.38%	1.2%
6➔	defect_3 mask	8b9681587.jpg	256 x 1600	34px	13.28%	64px	4%	0.43%
7➔	defect_1 mask	3fdc95c42.jpg	256 x 1600	70px	27.34%	40px	2.5%	0.57%
8➔	defect_1 mask	3fdc95c42.jpg	256 x 1600	63px	24.61%	27px	1.69%	0.33%
9➔	defect_1 mask	3fdc95c42.jpg	256 x 1600	32px	12.5%	22px	1.38%	0.15%
10➔	defect_1 mask	3fdc95c42.jpg	256 x 1600	58px	22.66%	29px	1.81%	0.32%

License #

The dataset is owned by PAO Severstal. If you need to use the dataset in your research you are entitled to do it without any restrictions except those established by the applicable law.

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Citation #

If you make use of the Severstal data, please cite the following reference:

@misc{severstal-steel-defect-detection,
  author = {Alexey Grishin, BorisV, iBardintsev, inversion, Oleg},
  title = {Severstal: Steel Defect Detection},
  publisher = {Kaggle},
  year = {2019},
  url = {https://kaggle.com/competitions/severstal-steel-defect-detection}
}

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Download #

Dataset Severstal can be downloaded in Supervisely format:

As an alternative, it can be downloaded with dataset-tools package:

pip install --upgrade dataset-tools

… using following python code:

import dataset_tools as dtools

dtools.download(dataset='Severstal', dst_dir='~/dataset-ninja/')

Make sure not to overlook the python code example available on the Supervisely Developer Portal. It will give you a clear idea of how to effortlessly work with the downloaded dataset.

The data in original format can be downloaded here.

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