The original BSDS500 [1] does not provide any README. The converted dataset will be made available if possible.
[1] P. Arbelaez, M. Maire, C. Fowlkes, J. Malik.
Contour detection and hierarchical image segmentation.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 33 (5) (2011) 898-916.
Instructions to convert the dataset manually can be found in docs/DATASETS.md
.