This is a publicly available benchmark dataset for testing and evaluating novel and state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms. The benchmark contains videos and images recorded in and beyond the visible spectrum and is available for free to all researchers in the international computer vision communities.Related publications:IEEE OTCBVS WS Series Bench; J. Davis and M. Keck, "A two-stage approach to person detection in thermal imagery," In Proc. Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, January 2005