Large Shoe Dataset (UT Zappos50k)

UT Zappos50K (UT-Zap50K) is a large shoe dataset consisting of 50,025 catalog images collected from Zappos.com. The images are divided into 4 major categories — shoes, sandals, slippers, and boots — followed by functional types and individual brands. The shoes are centered on a white background and pictured in the same orientation for convenient analysis.

This dataset is created in the context of an online shopping task, where users pay special attentions to fine-grained visual differences. For instance, it is more likely that a shopper is deciding between two pairs of similar men’s running shoes instead of between a woman’s high heel and a man’s slipper. GIST and LAB color features are provided. In addition, each image has 8 associated meta-data (gender, materials, etc.) labels that are used to filter the shoes on Zappos.com.