Unified Neuromorphic Datasets Repository

Getting started
Python module
Dataset format specification
Dataset mirrors

Getting Started

Install the undr module

pip3 install undr

Generate a default configuration file

python3 -m undr init

The generated undr.toml file is written in TOML (https://github.com/toml-lang/toml). It lists the datasets that will be downloaded or streamed, hence it needs to be ajusted to your needs.

The line directory = 'datasets' specifies the directory where downloaded files are stored (relatively to the configuration file). All the files generated by undr (directory indexes, downloaded data, temporary files...) are stored in this directory.

Datasets are listed as [[datasets]] entries with three mandatory properties: name, url and mode. The optional server_type property is used internally to speed up the download process. To discard a dataset, you can either remove it from the configuration file or comment all its lines with # signs.

mode changes the download strategy on a per-dataset basis, with three possible values:

'remote' only downloads the dataset's file index. The undr Python package can be used to process the dataset files as if they were on your hard drive by streaming them from the server. This option is particularly useful for large datasets that do not fit on your disk but requires a fast internet connection since files are re-downloaded every time they are processed.
'compressed' downloads all the dataset files locally but does not decompress them (most datasets are stored as lzip archives). The undr Python library transparently decompresses files in memory when you read them, making this option a good trade-off between disk usage and processing speed.
'decompressed' downloads all the dataset files locally and decompresses them. Decompressed files use a relatively inefficient plain binary file format so this option requires vast amounts of disk space (3 to 5 times as much as the lzip archives). On the other hand, the plain binary format facilitates processing with other languages such as Matlab or C++.

undr also supports hybrid configurations where only part of a dataset is downloaded or decompressed. See [NOT DOCUMENTED YET] for details.

Download the datasets

python3 -m undr install

This command downloads the datasets file indexes. If the mode is 'compressed' or 'decompress', it also downloads the dataset files (and possibly decompresses them).

This command can be interrupted at any time with CTRL + C. Re-running it will resume download where it left off.

Generate a BibTex file

python3 -m undr bibtex --output datasets.bib

The UNDR project does not claim authorship of the datasets. Please use this file to cite the origiinal articles.

Python module

pip3 install undr

Dataset format specification

-index: '-' comes before alpha-numeric characters in ASCII, not reserved in URLs/bash/filesystems

Dataset mirrors

Example configuration

Apache

<VirtualHost *:80>
    Alias / /path/to/local/directory/
    <Directory "/path/to/local/directory/">
        Require all granted
        Options +Indexes
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

To use another port, remember to edit /etc/apache2/ports.conf as well.

Nginx

server {
    listen 80;
    location / {
        alias /path/to/local/directory/;
        autoindex on;
        sendfile on;
        tcp_nopush on;
        sendfile_max_chunk 1m;
    }
}

Publish

Bump the version number in setup.py.
Install twine

pip3 install twine

Upload the source code to PyPI:

rm -rf dist
python3 setup.py sdist
python3 -m twine upload dist/*

gcohen/undr