The MultiMNIST dataset is generated from MNIST. The training and tests are generated by overlaying a digit on top of another digit from the same set (training or test) but different class. Each digit is shifted up to 4 pixels in each direction resulting in a 36×36 image. Considering a digit in a 28×28 image is bounded in a 20×20 box, two digits bounding boxes on average have 80% overlap. For each digit in the MNIST dataset 1,000 MultiMNIST examples are generated, so the training set size is 60M and the test set size is 10M.
Source: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.09829.pdf Image Source: Sabour et al
