Binary Descriptor Evaluation

Binary Descriptor Evaluation

This work evaluates the performance of binary descriptors and their pairings with various detectors.

ECCV 2012 PDF
ECCV 2012 Poster
ECCV 2012 BibTeX

Datasets

Download Oxford Datasets [1]
Download Strecha Datasets [2]
Download Photo-Collection and Additional Datasets (~8 MB) [3]
Download All Data (images, camera parameters, keypoints) (~85 MB)

Strecha Dataset Notes

Each image is resized so that its width is 1024.
For the fountain-P11 dataset, 0005.png was taken to be the first image, with 0004.png following, and then sequentially down to 0000.png (6 images total).

Example Dataset Images

  1. Bikes (Blur) [1]
    bikes1 dots bikes6
  2. Trees (Blur) [1]
    trees1 dots trees6
  3. UBC (JPEG Compression) [1]
    ubc1 dots ubc6
  4. Leuven (Exposure) [1]
    leuven1 dots leuven6
  5. Graffiti (Viewpoint) [1]
    graffiti1 dots graffiti6
  6. Wall (Viewpoint) [1]
    wall1 dots wall6
  7. Bark (Zoom, Rotation) [1]
    bark1 dots bark6
  8. Boat (Zoom, Rotation) [1]
    boat1 dots boat6
  9. Fountain-P11 (Viewpoint) [2]
    fountain1 dots fountain6
  10. Herz-Jesu-P8 (Viewpoint) [2]
    herzjesu1 dots herzjesu8
  11. Reichstag (Viewpoint, Zoom, Illumination) [3]
    reichstag2 dots reichstag
  12. Berliner-Dom (Viewpoint, Zoom, Illumination) [3]
    berliner-dom4 dots berliner-dom2
  13. Day-Night (Illumination) [3]
    day-night1 dots day-night7
  14. Semper (Rotation) [3]
    semper1 dots semper5
  15. Venice (Zoom) [3]
    venice1 dots venice7
  16. Rome (Rotation) [3]
    rome1 dots rome5
  17. Ceiling (Rotation) [3]
    ceiling1 dots ceiling6

References

[1] K. Mikolajczyk, T. Tuytelaars, C. Schmid, A. Zisserman, J. Matas, F. Schaffalitzky, T. Kadir, and L.V. Gool, "A comparison of affine region detectors," IJCV, 65:43-72, November 2005.
[2] C. Strecha, W. von Hansen, L. Van Gool, P. Fua, U. Thoennessen, "On Benchmarking Camera Calibration and Multi-View Stereo for High Resolution Imagery," CVPR, 2008.
[3] J. Heinly, E. Dunn, J.M. Frahm, "Comparative Evaluation of Binary Features," ECCV, 2012.