YILDIZ-VPR: A Novel Dataset with Dense Coverage Under Diverse Environmental Conditions for Visual Place Recognition

📅 2026-08-17
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为解决视觉地点识别中密集且多样化数据需求的问题,通过在不同环境条件下收集行人视角图像建立了YILDIZ-VPR数据集。
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Visual Place Recognition (VPR) aims to recognize the location of a query image by comparing it with a set of geo-referenced images. Although many datasets have been proposed for VPR, collecting dense and diverse visual data from pedestrian-level viewpoints is still an important need. In this paper, we introduce YILDIZ-VPR, a visual geo-localization dataset collected through repeated walking traversals on the Davutpasa campus of Yildiz Technical University. The dataset includes outdoor scenes captured at different times of day, seasons, and weather conditions. It contains a wide range of visual content, including historical buildings, modern structures, roads, green areas, and wooded regions. Each video was recorded with a GoPro 9 camera and synchronized with GPS sensor data to provide location labels for the extracted frames. In addition to GPS coordinates, the dataset also includes auxiliary sensor information such as gyroscope, speed, and temperature data. With its dense coverage and long-term visual variability, YILDIZ-VPR provides a useful resource for studying image-based and temporal visual place recognition under realistic outdoor conditions.
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Visual Place Recognition
Dense Coverage
Diverse Environmental Conditions
Pedestrian-level Viewpoints
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Dense Coverage
Diverse Environmental Conditions
Visual Place Recognition
Auxiliary Sensor Information
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