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The software in this repository provides a Matlab command line api to permit retrieving and storing files from an online database. We are sharing various data sets through a Maven/Archiva database hosted on an Amazon Web Services site. This software, designed by Ben Heasley, was written to help those of us working in Matlab to read and write files to that site.

There are several data sets that may be useful to vision scientists, and you can see some of them at the links below. We expect that the data set will grow substantially over the next two years.

Motivation

The Simons Global Brain Collaboration is supporting to create a software resource that captures our current understanding of the physiological optics, phototransduction and retinal processing that shape the visual signals transmitted from the eye to the brain. We envision this resource being accompanied by a repository of validation data, and being used to generate testable hypotheses about visual physiology and behavior. We hope the project will extend to portions of the visual system beyond the eye, and will be used in diverse disciplines including science, engineering, medicine, and education. Ideally, it will evolve into a centralized platform for understanding, sharing, and applying of our knowledge of the early visual pathways.

Repositories on the Maven site

• ISETBIO data
• Stanford Center for Image Systems Engineering data
• Vistalab MRI data for software validation
• Imageval scene datasets (hyper- and multi-spectral)