THE KTH-TIPS Database

This document provides a brief Users’ Guide to the KTH-TIPS image database (KTH is the abbreviation of our university, and TIPS stands for Textures under varying Illumination, Pose and Scale). The guide describes which materials are contained in the database (Section 2), how images were acquired (Section 3) and subsequently cropped to remove the background (Section 4), and we also discuss some non-ideal artifacts, like poor focus, in some pictures (Section 5). This document concludes by outlining how we intend to extend the database in the future (Section 6).