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New York Smells dataset aims to give machines a sense of smell

Researchers have introduced "New York Smells," a novel multimodal dataset designed to bridge the gap between machine perception and the sense of smell. This dataset comprises 7,000 image-olfactory signal pairs, featuring over 3,500 distinct objects encountered in natural indoor and outdoor settings, significantly expanding upon existing olfactory datasets. Experiments using "New York Smells" demonstrate its utility in cross-modal olfactory representation learning, with learned representations outperforming traditional hand-crafted features on tasks such as smell-to-image retrieval and scene recognition. AI

IMPACT Enables new avenues for multimodal AI research by providing a large-scale dataset for olfactory perception.

RANK_REASON The item describes a new dataset and benchmark for olfaction research published on arXiv. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New York Smells dataset aims to give machines a sense of smell

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Ege Ozguroglu, Junbang Liang, Ruoshi Liu, Mia Chiquier, Michael DeTienne, Wesley Wei Qian, Alexandra Horowitz, Andrew Owens, Carl Vondrick ·

    New York Smells: A Large Multimodal Dataset for Olfaction

    arXiv:2511.20544v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While olfaction is central to how animals perceive the world, this rich chemical sensory modality remains largely inaccessible to machines. One key bottleneck is the lack of diverse, multimodal olfactory training data coll…