How to access image datasets from Dropbox? - python

I have a dataset of images on Dropbox it is in uncompressed folders, and I want to train a a model using google colab. How can I tell Colab where the dataset is in dropbox

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So I have my images links like:
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and I have almost 10M images which I want to use for Deep Learning purpose. I have a script to download the images and save them in desired directories already using requests and PIL
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I want to train a deep learning (CNN) model on a dataset containing around 100000 images. Since the dataset is huge (approx 82 Gb), I want to use Google colab since it's GPU supported. How do I upload this full image folder into my notebook and use it?
I can not use google drive or git hub since my dataset is too large.
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It would be better if you compress or resize the images to reduce file size using opencv or something

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