code: def cifar10_patches(data_set='cifar-10'):
      
      dir_path = os.path.join(data_path, data_set)
      filename = os.path.join(dir_path, 'cifar-10-python.tar.gz')
      if not data_available(data_set):
          download_data(data_set)
          import tarfile
          # This code is from Boris Babenko's blog post.
          # http://bbabenko.tumblr.com/post/86756017649/learning-low-level-vision-feautres-in-10-lines-of-code
          tfile = tarfile.open(filename, 'r:gz')
          tfile.extractall(dir_path)
  
      with open(os.path.join(dir_path, 'cifar-10-batches-py','data_batch_1'),'rb') as f:
          data = pickle.load(f)
  
      images = data['data'].reshape((-1,3,32,32)).astype('float32')/255
      images = np.rollaxis(images, 1, 4)
      patches = np.zeros((0,5,5,3))
      for x in range(0,32-5,5):
          for y in range(0,32-5,5):
              patches = np.concatenate((patches, images[:,x:x+5,y:y+5,:]), axis=0)
      patches = patches.reshape((patches.shape[0],-1))
      return data_details_return({'Y': patches, "info" : "32x32 pixel patches extracted from the CIFAR-10 data by Boris Babenko to demonstrate k-means features."}, data_set)
docs: The Candian Institute for Advanced Research 10 image data set. Code for loading in this data is taken from this Boris Babenko's blog post, original code available here: http://bbabenko.tumblr.com/post/86756017649/learning-low-level-vision-feautres-in-10-lines-of-code