@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ class StanfordCars(VisionDataset):
1414 split into 8,144 training images and 8,041 testing images, where each class
1515 has been split roughly in a 50-50 split
1616
17- The original URL is https://ai.stanford.edu/~jkrause/cars/car_dataset.html, but it is broken.
18- Follow the instructions in ``download`` argument to obtain and use the dataset offline .
17+ The original URL is https://ai.stanford.edu/~jkrause/cars/car_dataset.html,
18+ the dataset isn't available online anymore .
1919
2020 .. note::
2121
@@ -29,13 +29,7 @@ class StanfordCars(VisionDataset):
2929 target_transform (callable, optional): A function/transform that takes in the
3030 target and transforms it.
3131 download (bool, optional): This parameter exists for backward compatibility but it does not
32- download the dataset, since the original URL is not available anymore. The dataset
33- seems to be available on Kaggle so you can try to manually download and configure it using
34- `these instructions <https://github.com/pytorch/vision/issues/7545#issuecomment-1631441616>`_,
35- or use an integrated
36- `dataset on Kaggle <https://github.com/pytorch/vision/issues/7545#issuecomment-2282674373>`_.
37- In both cases, first download and configure the dataset locally, and use the dataset with
38- ``"download=False"``.
32+ download the dataset, since the original URL is not available anymore.
3933 loader (callable, optional): A function to load an image given its path.
4034 By default, it uses PIL as its image loader, but users could also pass in
4135 ``torchvision.io.decode_image`` for decoding image data into tensors directly.
@@ -73,10 +67,7 @@ def __init__(
7367 self .download ()
7468
7569 if not self ._check_exists ():
76- raise RuntimeError (
77- "Dataset not found. Try to manually download following the instructions in "
78- "https://github.com/pytorch/vision/issues/7545#issuecomment-1631441616."
79- )
70+ raise RuntimeError ("Dataset not found." )
8071
8172 self ._samples = [
8273 (
@@ -111,9 +102,4 @@ def _check_exists(self) -> bool:
111102 return self ._annotations_mat_path .exists () and self ._images_base_path .is_dir ()
112103
113104 def download (self ):
114- raise ValueError (
115- "The original URL is broken so the StanfordCars dataset is not available for automatic "
116- "download anymore. You can try to download it manually following "
117- "https://github.com/pytorch/vision/issues/7545#issuecomment-1631441616, "
118- "and set download=False to avoid this error."
119- )
105+ raise ValueError ("The original URL is broken so the StanfordCars dataset cannot be downloaded anymore." )
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