Google Landmarks Dataset v2

This is the second version of the Google Landmarks dataset (GLD-v2), which contains images annotated with labels representing human-made and natural landmarks. The dataset can be used for landmark recognition and retrieval experiments. This version of the dataset contains approximately 5 million images, split into 3 sets of images: train, index and test. The dataset was presented in our Google AI blog post. In this repository, we present download links for all dataset files and relevant code for metric computation.

This dataset was associated to two Kaggle challenges, on landmark recognition and landmark retrieval. Results were discussed as part of a CVPR'19 workshop. In this repository, we also provide scores for the top 10 teams in the challenges, based on the latest ground-truth version. Please visit the challenge and workshop webpages for more details on the data, tasks and technical solutions from top teams.

For reference, the previous version of the Google Landmarks dataset (referred to as Google Landmarks dataset v1, GLD-v1) is available here.

Current version

The current dataset version is 2.1. See the release history for details, including re-scored challenge submissions based on the latest ground-truth version.

Download `train` set

There are 4,132,914 images in the train set.

Download the labels and metadata

train.csv: CSV with id,url,landmark_id fields. id is a 16-character string, url is a string, landmark_id is an integer. Available at: https://s3.amazonaws.com/google-landmark/metadata/train.csv.
train_attribution.csv: CSV with id,url,author,license,title fields. id is a 16-character string, and the other fields are strings of variable length. Available at: https://s3.amazonaws.com/google-landmark/metadata/train_attribution.csv.
train_label_to_category.csv: CSV with landmark_id,category fields: landmark_id is an integer, category is a Wikimedia URL referring to the class definition. Available at: https://s3.amazonaws.com/google-landmark/metadata/train_label_to_category.csv.

Downloading the data

The train set is split into 500 TAR files (each of size ~1GB) containing JPG-encoded images. The files are located in the train/ directory, and are named images_000.tar, images_001.tar, ..., images_499.tar. To download them, access the following link:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/google-landmark/train/images_000.tar

And similarly for the other files.

Using the provided script

mkdir train && cd train
bash ../download-dataset.sh train 499

This will automatically download, verify and extract the images to the train directory.

Note: This script downloads files in parallel. To adjust the number of parallel downloads, modify NUM_PROC in the script.

`train` image licenses

All images in the train set have CC-BY licenses without the NonDerivs (ND) restriction. To verify the license for a particular image, please refer to train_attribution.csv.

Download `index` set

There are 761,757 images in the index set.

Download the list of images and metadata

IMPORTANT: Note that the integer landmark id's mentioned here are different from the ones in the train set above.

index.csv: single-column CSV with id field. id is a 16-character string. Available at: https://s3.amazonaws.com/google-landmark/metadata/index.csv.
index_image_to_landmark.csv: CSV with id,landmark_id fields: id is a 16-character string, landmark_id is an integer. Available at: https://s3.amazonaws.com/google-landmark/metadata/index_image_to_landmark.csv.
index_label_to_category.csv: CSV with landmark_id,category fields: landmark_id is an integer, category is a Wikimedia URL referring to the class definition. Available at: https://s3.amazonaws.com/google-landmark/metadata/index_label_to_category.csv.

Downloading the data

The index set is split into 100 TAR files (each of size ~850MB) containing JPG-encoded images. The files are located in the index/ directory, and are named images_000.tar, images_001.tar, ..., images_099.tar. To download them, access the following link:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/google-landmark/index/images_000.tar

And similarly for the other files.

Using the provided script

mkdir index && cd index
bash ../download-dataset.sh index 99

This will automatically download, verify and extract the images to the index directory.

Note: This script downloads files in parallel. To adjust the number of parallel downloads, modify NUM_PROC in the script.

`index` image licenses

All images in the index set have CC-0 or Public Domain licenses.

Download `test` set

There are 117,577 images in the test set.

Download the list of images and ground-truth

test.csv: single-column CSV with id field. id is a 16-character string. Available at: https://s3.amazonaws.com/google-landmark/metadata/test.csv.
recognition_solution_v2.1.csv: CSV with three columns: id (16-character string), landmarks (space-separated list of integer landmark IDs, or empty if no landmark from the dataset is depicted), Usage (either "Public" or "Private", referring to which subset the image belongs to). Available at: https://s3.amazonaws.com/google-landmark/ground_truth/recognition_solution_v2.1.csv.
retrieval_solution_v2.1.csv: CSV with three columns: id (16-character string), images (space-separated list of string index image IDs, or None if this image is ignored), Usage (either "Public" or "Private", referring to which subset the image belongs to). Available at: https://s3.amazonaws.com/google-landmark/ground_truth/retrieval_solution_v2.1.csv.

Downloading the data

The test set is split into 20 TAR files (each of size ~500MB) containing JPG-encoded images. The files are located in the test/ directory, and are named images_000.tar, images_001.tar, ..., images_019.tar. To download them, access the following link:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/google-landmark/test/images_000.tar

And similarly for the other files.

Using the provided script

mkdir test && cd test
bash ../download-dataset.sh test 19

This will automatically download, verify and extract the images to the test directory.

Note: This script downloads files in parallel. To adjust the number of parallel downloads, modify NUM_PROC in the script.

`test` image licenses

All images in the test set have CC-0 or Public Domain licenses.

Checking the download

We also make available md5sum files for checking the integrity of the downloaded files. Each md5sum file corresponds to one of the TAR files mentioned above; they are located in the md5sum/index/, md5sum/test/ and md5sum/train/ directories, with file names md5.images_000.txt, md5.images_001.txt, etc. For example, the md5sum file corresponding to the images_000.tar file in the index set can be found via the following link:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/google-landmark/md5sum/index/md5.images_000.txt

And similarly for the other files.

If you use the provided download-dataset.sh script, the integrity of the files is already checked right after download.

Extracting the data

We recommend that the set of TAR files corresponding to each dataset split be extracted into a directory per split; ie, the index TARs extracted into an index directory; train TARs extracted into a train directory; etc. The directory structure of the image data is as follows: Each image is stored in a directory ${a}/${b}/${c}/${id}.jpg, where ${a}, ${b} and ${c} are the first three letters of the image id, and ${id} is the image id found in train.csv. For example, an image with the id 0123456789abcdef would be stored in 0/1/2/0123456789abcdef.jpg.

Metric computation code

The metric computation scripts have been made available, via the DELF github repository, see the python scripts compute_recognition_metrics.py and compute_retrieval_metrics.py. These scripts accept as input the ground-truth files, along with predictions in the format submitted to Kaggle.

Dataset licenses

The annotations are licensed by Google under CC BY 4.0 license. The images listed in this dataset are publicly available on the web, and may have different licenses. Google does not own their copyright. Note: while we tried to identify images that are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license, we make no representations or warranties regarding the license status of each image and you should verify the license for each image yourself.

Release history

Sept 2019 (version 2.1)

Ground-truth and labelmaps released. Note that the ground-truth has been substantially updated since the end of the 2019 Kaggle challenges; it is not the one that was used for scoring in the challenge.

We have re-computed metrics for the top 10 teams in the 2019 challenges (see the Kaggle challenge webpages for precise definitions of the metrics):

Recognition metrics

Team	Private GAP (%)	Public GAP (%)
JL	66.53	61.86
GLRunner	53.08	52.07
smlyaka	69.39	65.85
Chundi Liu	60.86	56.77
Cookpad	33.66	31.12
bestfitting	54.53	52.46
Himanshu Rai	60.32	56.28
Eduardo	46.88	44.07
ods.ai	24.02	22.28
ZFTurbo & Weimin & David	38.99	39.83

Retrieval metrics

Team	Private mAP@100 (%)	Public mAP@100 (%)
smlyaka	37.14	35.63
imagesearch	34.38	32.04
Layer 6 AI	32.10	29.92
bestfitting	32.12	29.09
ods.ai	29.82	27.82
learner	28.98	27.33
CVSSP	28.07	26.59
Clova Vision, NAVER/LINE Corp.	27.77	25.85
VRG Prague	25.48	23.71
JL	24.98	22.73

May 2019 (version 2.0)

Included data for test and index sets.

Apr 2019 (version 2.0)

Initial version, including only train set.

Contact

For any questions/suggestions/comments/corrections, please open an issue in this github repository. In particular, we plan to maintain and release new versions of the ground-truth as corrections are found.

Dataset Metadata

The following table is necessary for this dataset to be indexed by search engines such as Google Dataset Search.

property value

name Google Landmarks Dataset v2

url https://github.com/cvdfoundation/google-landmark

description

This is the second version of the Google Landmarks dataset (GLD-v2), which contains images annotated with labels representing human-made and natural landmarks. The dataset can be used for landmark recognition and retrieval experiments. This version of the dataset contains approximately 5 million images, split into 3 sets of images: train, index and test. The dataset was presented in our Google AI blog post. In this repository, we present download links for all dataset files and relevant code for metric computation.

provider

property	value
name	`Google`
sameAs	`https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google`

license


    The annotations are licensed by Google under CC BY 4.0 license. The images listed in this dataset are publicly available on the web, and may have different licenses. Google does not own their copyright. Note: while we tried to identify images that are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license, we make no representations or warranties regarding the license status of each image and you should verify the license for each image yourself.

citation TODO

qianlinjun/google-landmark

Google Landmarks Dataset v2

Current version

Download train set

Download the labels and metadata

Downloading the data

Using the provided script

train image licenses

Download index set

Download the list of images and metadata

Downloading the data

Using the provided script

index image licenses

Download test set

Download the list of images and ground-truth

Downloading the data

Using the provided script

test image licenses

Checking the download

Extracting the data

Metric computation code

Dataset licenses

Release history

Sept 2019 (version 2.1)

Recognition metrics

Retrieval metrics

May 2019 (version 2.0)

Apr 2019 (version 2.0)

Contact

Dataset Metadata

Download `train` set

`train` image licenses

Download `index` set

`index` image licenses

Download `test` set

`test` image licenses