BOLD5000: A public fMRI dataset of 5000 images

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Vision science, particularly machine vision, has been revolutionized by introducing large-scale image datasets and statistical learning approaches.

• Yet, human neuroimaging studies of visual perception still rely on small numbers of images (around 100) due to time-constrained experimental procedures.
• To apply statistical learning approaches that integrate neuroscience, the number of images used in neuroimaging must be significantly increased.
• We present BOLD5000, a human functional MRI (fMRI) study that includes almost 5,000 distinct images depicting real-world scenes.