Posted: Dataset for Nokia Photo Location Challenge

We are still working on creating a ground truth set for Nokia’s Photo location & orientation Challenge. For the time being, we are glad to provide a larger data set (zip file), for which we unfortunately do not have the ground truth yet. This set also includes calibration grid images. All the images were taken with the same camera.


This set represents fairly realistic, but extremely challenging conditions. It is our hope that researchers will soon find methods that are able to fairly accurately reconstruct the camera poses from a set like this.  For the time being, though, we are not expecting submissions which can fully recover all the camera poses in this set.


The images were taken in the city of Lausanne, Switzerland, starting from Place Centrale, going around at Place Pepinet, continuing on Rue Centrale and taking a turn to Rue du Pont. From the fountain the pictures set continues on Escaliers du Marche towards the Cathedrale de Lausanne. There are good satellite and aerial images of the city publicly available (for example, from Live.com) , which may help you to visually inspect your results.


The image set can be downloaded here.