2.4 Image Sources

Users can create sources using image files. Please refer to Chapter 3 to see the image file formats BigML supports.

When a source is created by a single image file, it’s a Single source with an “Image” format, or is simply called an image source. You can see this in the source list view:

Please note the “image” format in the source’s description string above, and the “image” icon in the “Type” column:

An image source has two fields, the image, with type image, and its filename, with type path.

You can see the image information in the source: filename, pixel dimension, and file size.

You can create composite sources using an image source. You can do this by clicking on the cloud action icon.

You cannot create a dataset using an image source. But you can clone and close image sources.

When a source is created by an archive file containing multiple images, such as a zip or tar file, it’s a Composite source, which is covered in Chapter 4 .