World Cities Dataset

World Cities dataset consists of 2,226,414 geo-tagged images from 40 cities, crawled from Flickr using geographic queries covering a window of each city center.

• This set of images is designed to be used as a distractor set along with any annotated test set.
• We also provide an appropriate test set, which is the landmark scenes test set of our European Cities 1M dataset and contains images from the city of Barcelona.
• Along with the image urls we provide city information for each image.
• In case that our test set is used then Barcelona images should be removed.
• Test sets and distractors sets from both of our previous datasets European Cities 50K and European Cities 1M are subsets of the World Cities dataset.
• Wolrd Cities dataset has been used for large scale image retrieval evaluation in our ICCV 2011 paper shown below, more information can be found on the project page.

Particularly the dataset includes images from Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Beijing, Berlin, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Cape Town, Caracas, Chicago, Copenhagen, Delhi, Dortmund, Dubai, Dublin, Edinburgh, Florence, Havana, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Jakarta, Krakow, Lima, Lisbon, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, New York, Paris, Petersburgh, Prague, Rome, Sheffield, Sydney, Toronto, Vancouver, Venice and Vienna.

Sample images from the World Cities distractor set.

Dataset Rights

The World Cities dataset consists of images downloaded from Flickr. Use of these images must respect the corresponding terms of use.

Citation

If you use the World Cities dataset please cite our ICCV paper shown below.

Downloads

Frequently, some of the images are moved amongst Flickr servers. We periodically update the list of URLs replacing broken links with the current ones.