{"id":42577,"date":"2026-09-12T16:27:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T14:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/researcher-looking-for-interesting-real-world-datasets-that-havent-been-fully-explored-with-ml-cv\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T16:27:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T14:27:43","slug":"researcher-looking-for-interesting-real-world-datasets-that-havent-been-fully-explored-with-ml-cv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/researcher-looking-for-interesting-real-world-datasets-that-havent-been-fully-explored-with-ml-cv\/","title":{"rendered":"Researcher Looking For Interesting Real-world Datasets That Haven&#8217;t Been Fully Explored With ML\/CV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>I&#8217;m starting my PhD and I&#8217;ve been thinking quite a bit about what I actually want to spend the next few years working on.<\/p>\n<p>My background is mainly in <strong>computer vision and deep learning<\/strong>, although I&#8217;ve worked on quite a few broader ML projects as well. Most of my work has been research-oriented: training and evaluating models, running experiments and ablations, comparing architectures, benchmarking methods, and working on papers\/scientific contributions.<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;d really like to do now is work on more <strong>real problems with real data<\/strong>, rather than picking another benchmark and trying to squeeze another 0.x% out of it.<\/p>\n<p>So I thought I&#8217;d ask here:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Does anyone have an interesting dataset or real-world problem that they think is underexplored from an ML\/CV perspective?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m particularly interested in situations where someone has:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>collected an interesting dataset but doesn&#8217;t have the ML\/CV background to fully explore it<\/li>\n<li>a domain-specific problem where existing models don&#8217;t work particularly well<\/li>\n<li>data that hasn&#8217;t really been benchmarked with modern deep learning methods<\/li>\n<li>an interesting detection, segmentation, classification, tracking, multimodal, remote sensing, medical imaging, etc. problem<\/li>\n<li>an existing research project where another person who can handle the experimental\/ML side would be useful<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m not really looking for a Kaggle-style project just for the sake of training a model. I&#8217;d much rather find something where there is an actual research question behind it and where careful experiments could potentially produce something scientifically useful.<\/p>\n<p>On my side, I can contribute with things like model development\/training, PyTorch pipelines, baselines, experiment design, ablations, evaluation, literature review and research writing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also completely open to learning a new application domain if the problem and dataset are interesting. In fact, that&#8217;s partly what I&#8217;m looking for \u2014 collaborating with people who understand a domain much better than I do, while I contribute the ML\/research side.<\/p>\n<p>If you have something sitting around that you&#8217;ve always thought <em>&#8220;someone should really try ML on this properly&#8221;<\/em>, I&#8217;d genuinely be interested in hearing about it.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to comment or DM me. Even if it doesn&#8217;t turn into a collaboration, I&#8217;d be interested in seeing what kinds of real datasets\/problems people here are working with.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Naive_Ad_466\"> \/u\/Naive_Ad_466 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1wedaw0\/researcher_looking_for_interesting_realworld\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1wedaw0\/researcher_looking_for_interesting_realworld\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-42577 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='42577' data-nonce='4ef4545ee1' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-42577 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-42577 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m starting my PhD and I&#8217;ve been thinking quite a bit about what I actually want to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}