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Thus, it is clear how defining an adequate training data set plays a key role, and several aspects should be considered, such as data availability, preprocessing, augmentation and balancing according to the selected labels. In this paper, we highlight all these issues, describing the pursued strategies to elaborate a reliable data set. In particular, a detailed description of both requirements (e.g., scale and resolution of images, evaluation parameters and data heterogeneity) and the steps followed to define View VULMA are provided, starting from the data assessment (which allowed to reduce the initial sample of about 20.000 images to a subset of about 3.000 pictures), to achieve the goal of training a transfer-learning-based automated tool for fast estimation of the vulnerability of existing buildings from single pictures.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/data7010004","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,3]],"date-time":"2022-01-03T20:49:38Z","timestamp":1641242978000},"page":"4","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":23,"title":["View VULMA: Data Set for Training a Machine-Learning Tool for a Fast Vulnerability Analysis of Existing Buildings"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"7","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3313-4817","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Angelo","family":"Cardellicchio","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Intelligent Industrial Technologies and Systems for Advanced Manufacturing (STIIMA), National Research Council of Italy, Via Amendola, 122 D\/O, 70126 Bari, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5119-8967","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sergio","family":"Ruggieri","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"DICATECH Department, Polytechnic University of Bari, Via Orabona, 4, 70126 Bari, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3351-2665","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Valeria","family":"Leggieri","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"DICATECH Department, Polytechnic University of Bari, Via Orabona, 4, 70126 Bari, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6408-167X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Giuseppina","family":"Uva","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"DICATECH Department, Polytechnic University of Bari, Via Orabona, 4, 70126 Bari, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"GNDT Gruppo Nazionale Per la Difesa dai Terremoti (1993). 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