If you use this dataset, please cite this paper: Puertas, E.; De-Las-Heras, G.; Sánchez-Soriano, J.; Fernández-Andrés, J. Dataset: Variable Message Signal Annotated Images for Object Detection. Data 2022, 7, 41. https://doi.org/10.3390/data7040041 This dataset consists of Spanish road images taken from inside a vehicle, as well as annotations in XML files in PASCAL VOC format that indicate the location of Variable Message Signals within them. Also, a CSV file is attached with information regarding the geographic position, the folder where the image is located, and the text in Spanish. This can be used to train supervised learning computer vision algorithms, such as convolutional neural networks. Throughout this work, the process followed to obtain the dataset, image acquisition, and labeling, and its specifications are detailed. The dataset is constituted of 1216 instances, 888 positives, and 328 negatives, in 1152 jpg images with a resolution of 1280x720 pixels. These are divided into 576 real images and 576 images created from the data-augmentation technique. The purpose of this dataset is to help in road computer vision research since there is not one specifically for VMSs. The folder structure of the dataset is as follows: vms_dataset/ data.csv real_images/ imgs/ annotations/ data-augmentation/ imgs/ annotations/ In which: data.csv: Each row contains the following information separated by commas (,): image_name, x_min, y_min, x_max, y_max, class_name, lat, long, folder, text. real_images: Images extracted directly from the videos. data-augmentation: Images created using data-augmentation imgs: Image files in .jpg format. annotations: Annotation files in .xml format.

Funding: This publication is part of the I+D+i projects with reference PID2019-104793RB-C32, PIDC2021-121517-C33, funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/, S2018/EMT-4362/"SEGVAUTO4.0-CM" funded by Regional Government of Madrid and "ESF and ERDF A way of making Europe".