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# Caltech-101

The Caltech-101 dataset of images.

The dataset consists of pictures of objects belonging to 101 classes, plus
one background clutter class (`BACKGROUND_Google`). Each image is labelled
with a single object.

Each class contains roughly 40 to 800 images, totalling around 9,000
images. Images are of variable sizes, with typical edge lengths of 200-300
pixels. This version contains image-level labels only.

**Details**

- Dataset name: `caltech101`
- Dataset source: [https://data.caltech.edu/records/mzrjq-6wc02](https://data.caltech.edu/records/mzrjq-6wc02)
- Dataset license: CC-BY-4.0
- Dataset size: 138.60 MB
- Tags: `image, classification`
- Supported splits: `N/A`
- ZooDataset class:
  [`Caltech101Dataset`](../../api/fiftyone.zoo.datasets.base.md#fiftyone.zoo.datasets.base.Caltech101Dataset)

**Example usage**

Python

CLI

```python
import fiftyone as fo
import fiftyone.zoo as foz

dataset = foz.load_zoo_dataset("caltech101")

session = fo.launch_app(dataset)
```

```shell
fiftyone zoo datasets load caltech101

fiftyone app launch caltech101
```

![caltech101](images/dataset_zoo/caltech101.png)
