Hyperspectral natural image dataset

This post provides the hyperspectral natural image dataset collected by Daniel Ruderman, Thomas Cronin, and Chuan-Chin Chiao.

Here is a link to download the images. Details on the data can be found in:

Ruderman, D. L., Cronin, T. W., & Chiao, C. C. (1998). Statistics of cone responses to natural images: implications for visual coding. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 15(8), 2036-2045.

An RGB rendering of the images can be seen below.

I’ve also included a short script on how to read the data in python. Feel free to reach out if you run into any issues downloading or loading the data.

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