# Oxford RobotCar Dataset

**Source**: https://robotcar-dataset.robots.ox.ac.uk/news/long-term-autonomy-benchmark/
**Parent**: https://robotcar-dataset.robots.ox.ac.uk/

The initial release of the RobotCar Dataset consisted purely of raw data, giving researchers a large collection of data with a wide range of variation in illumination, weather, dynamic objects, seasonal changes, roadworks and building construction.

Building on that release, today at the ICRA [Workshop on Robotics and Vehicular Technologies for Self-driving cars](http://cim.mcgill.ca/~malika/ICRA17_WS/), we announced that we will soon be releasing a localisation benchmarking service, based on RTK-corrected GPS/INS trajectories. 

We plan to offer a subset of the corrected RTK solutions for a small number of traversals, and withhold the remaining ground truth in order to provide an online benchmarking service.

By providing a benchmark where researchers can quantitatively evaluate and compare localisation and mapping approaches on a challenging large-scale dataset, we hope to accelerate development of long-term autonomy for future autonomous vehicles.

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[Geoff Pascoe](http://ori.ox.ac.uk/mrg_people/geoff-pascoe/)   2017-06-02  NEWS \