This dataset contains 207,572 books from the Amazon.com, Inc. marketplace.

The original dataset can be found here.

Challenges

Task 1: Classification (BookCover30)

The purpose of this task is to classify the books by the cover image. The BookCover30 dataset contains 57,000 book cover images divided into 30 classes. The training set and test set is split into 90% - 10% respectively.

Task 2: Data Mining (Bock32)

This task is to explore the entire book database. There are 207,572 books in 32 classes. This dataset contains book cover images, title, author, and category for each respective book.

Citation

Paper on ArXiv

B. K. Iwana, S. T. Raza Rizvi, S. Ahmed, A. Dengel, and S. Uchida, "Judging a Book by its Cover," arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.09204 (2016).

>@article{iwana2016judging, title={Judging a Book by its Cover}, author={Iwana, Brian Kenji and Raza Rizvi, Syed Tahseen and Ahmed, Sheraz and Dengel, Andreas and Uchida, Seiichi}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.09204}, year={2016} }

Acknowlegement

Foto von Sinziana Susa auf Unsplash