AmsterTime: A Visual Place Recognition Benchmark Dataset for Severe Domain Shift
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AmsterTime dataset offers a collection of 2,500 well-curated images matching the same scene from a street view matched to historical archival image data from Amsterdam city. The image pairs capture the same place with different cameras, viewpoints, and appearances. Unlike existing benchmark datasets, AmsterTime is directly crowdsourced in a GIS navigation platform (Mapillary). In turn, all the matching pairs are verified by a human expert to verify the correct matches and evaluate the human competence in the Visual Place Recognition (VPR) task for further references. The properties of the dataset are summarized as:1200+ license-free images from the Amsterdam City Archive, representing urban places in the city of Amsterdam, captured in the past century by many photographers.All archival queries are matched with street view images from Mapillary.All matches are verified by architectural historians and Amsterdam inhabitants.Image pairs are archival and street views capturing the same place with different cameras, time lags, structural changes, occlusion, viewpoint, appearance, and illuminations.The dataset exhibits a domain shift between query and the gallery due to significant …
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