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Cityscapes

25,000 urban street scene images with pixel-level semantic segmentation masks.

LQS 84 · gold ⚠ Research-only 25K images 70 GB PNG · JSON Released 2016
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Source: cityscapes-dataset.com · maintained by Daimler / MPI Informatics / TU Darmstadt
25K
images
70 GB
Size on disk
84
LQS · gold
2016
First released

About this dataset

Cityscapes is a benchmark for urban scene understanding released by Daimler, MPI, and TU Darmstadt. 5,000 finely-annotated + 20,000 coarsely-annotated images of street scenes from 50 cities, with pixel-level semantic segmentation labels across 30 classes (8 categories: flat, human, vehicle, construction, object, nature, sky, void). Captured under varying weather and lighting — the de facto benchmark for urban semantic segmentation.

Formats
PNG · JSON

LabelSets Quality Score

LQS is our 7-dimension quality score, computed from the dataset's published statistics. See methodology →

84
out of 100
gold tier

Solid dataset with some trade-offs

Composite score computed from the 7 dimensions below: completeness, uniqueness, validation health, size adequacy, format compliance, label density, and class balance.

Completeness 92
No public completeness metric; using prior for 'research_release' datasets.
Uniqueness 68
Minimal deduplication disclosed.
Validation 95
Multiple expert annotators with reconciliation pass.
Size adequacy 94
25,000 images — exceeds 1,000 adequacy target for Autonomous Vehicles.
Format compliance 95
Industry-standard format — drop-in compatible with mainstream tooling.
Label density 52
Average 1.0 labels per item (sparse).
Class balance 75
Moderate class skew — realistic production distribution.

What it's used for

Common tasks and benchmarks where Cityscapes is the default or competitive choice.

Sample statistics

What's actually in the dataset — from the maintainer's published stats.

5,000 fine + 20,000 coarse pixel-level annotated images. 30 semantic classes across 8 categories. 50 cities, multi-season, day & dusk. Expert-annotated with multi-rater QC.

License

Cityscapes is distributed under Cityscapes License (research use). This is a third-party public dataset; LabelSets indexes and scores it but does not host or redistribute the data. Always verify current license terms with the maintainer before commercial use.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Cityscapes is distributed under Cityscapes License (research use), which restricts commercial use. For a commercially-licensed alternative in autonomous vehicles, see LabelSets' paid datasets.
Cityscapes contains 25,000 images. 5,000 fine + 20,000 coarse pixel-level annotated images. 30 semantic classes across 8 categories. 50 cities, multi-season, day & dusk. Expert-annotated with multi-rater QC.
Cityscapes is maintained by Daimler / MPI Informatics / TU Darmstadt and is available at https://www.cityscapes-dataset.com/downloads/. LabelSets indexes and scores this dataset for discoverability but does not redistribute it.
LQS is a 7-dimension quality score (completeness, uniqueness, validation, size adequacy, format compliance, label density, class balance) computed from the dataset's published statistics. Composite scores map to tiers: platinum (≥90), gold (≥75), silver (≥60), bronze (<60). Read the full methodology.