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The sign is the main subject, photographed close enough that the letters are sharp, with no identifiable people in frame; distant smudges and shots with faces are sent back. The task is open only in 11 Southeast Asian countries, so expect what those streets hold: Indonesian, Malay and Filipino lettering first, Chinese and Tamil shop signs in Malaysia, Thai and Burmese where the task runs there, two or three languages on one board, hand-painted names, stenciled warnings and monsoon weathering. No transcriptions or polygons are included. Scene-text benchmarks cover English and Chinese well and Southeast Asian languages thinly; on SEA-Vision (arXiv 2603.15409) a current VLM reads Filipino, Thai and Vietnamese scene text at well under half its English accuracy.
Volume
25,000+
Photos
Contributors
1,000+
Regions
Southeast Asia (11 countries)
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What’s in the collection and how it’s delivered.
Data modality
Images
Annotated
Raw (no labels)
Exclusivity
Non-exclusive rights
Capture tool
Phone camera (in app)
Use cases
Scene text detection and recognition in SEA scripts, multilingual OCR, VLM street-reading evaluation
Format
JPG / PNG / HEIC
Resolution
Native phone camera resolution (JPG, PNG, HEIC)
Total volume
25,000+ photos (approx. 75 GB)
Regions
Southeast Asia (11 countries)
Purity level
99%+ passed QA review
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Your team
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License terms
Non-exclusive commercial training license.
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