GL3D: Geometric Learning with 3D Reconstruction

About

GL3D (Geometric Learning with 3D Reconstruction) is a large-scale database created for 3D reconstruction and geometry-related learning problems. Most images contained are captured by drones from multiple scales and perspectives with large geometric overlaps, covering urban, rural area, or scenic spots. It also includes small object reconstructions to enrich the data diversity. If you find this dataset useful for your research, please cite:

@inproceedings{shen2018mirror,
    author={Shen, Tianwei and Luo, Zixin and Zhou, Lei and Zhang, Runze and Zhu, Siyu and Fang, Tian and Quan, Long},
    title={Matchable Image Retrieval by Learning from Surface Reconstruction},
    booktitle={The Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV},
    year={2018},
}

If you have used the correspondence labels, please also cite:

@inproceedings{luo2018geodesc,
    title={Geodesc: Learning local descriptors by integrating geometry constraints},
    author={Luo, Zixin and Shen, Tianwei and Zhou, Lei and Zhu, Siyu and Zhang, Runze and Yao, Yao and Fang, Tian and Quan, Long},
    booktitle={European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
    year={2018}
}

GL3D is now tighly combined with BlendedMVS, referred to as BlendedMVG. If you have used the rendered depths or blended images, please also cite:

@inproceedings{yao2020blendedmvs,
  title={BlendedMVS: A Large-scale Dataset for Generalized Multi-view Stereo Networks},
  author={Yao, Yao and Luo, Zixin and Li, Shiwei and Zhang, Jingyang and Ren, Yufan and Zhou, Lei and Fang, Tian and Quan, Long},
  booktitle={Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  year={2020}
}

Dataset Description

GL3D contains 125,623 high-resolution images regarding 543 different scenes. Each scene data is reconstructed to generate a triangular mesh model by the state-of-the-art 3D reconstruction pipeline. Refer to [1] for details. For each scene data, we provide the complete image sequence, geometric labels and reconstruction results.

To increase the data diversity, we have also applied the same data generation pipeline on some Internet tourism datasets that are publicly available. In practice, we recommend using both GL3D and tourism datasets collaboratively in training for better generalization ability. Refer to docs/tourism_data.md for details.

Tasks

Research works below are supported by GL3D:

Task	Reference
Image retrieval	MIRorR, ACCV'18
Local descriptor	GeoDesc, ECCV'18
Local descriptor	ContextDesc, CVPR'19
Outlier rejection	OANet, ICCV'19
Local feature	ASLFeat, CVPR'20

Downloads

Undistorted images resized to 1000x1000 are provided.

Sources	Data Name	Link	Disk	Descriptions
GL3D	gl3d_imgs	URL	62G	1000x1000 undistorted images of GL3D
GL3D	gl3d_raw_imgs	URL	52G	raw images of test set of GL3D
GL3D & BlendedMVS	gl3d_blended_images	URL	58G	1000x1000 blended images of GL3D and BlendedMVS

Dataset Format

data                          
 └── <pid> 
       ├── undist_images/*
       ├── blended_images/*
       ├── geolabel/*
       ├── img_kpts/*.bin
       ├── depths/*.pfm
       ├── rendered_depths/*.pfm
       └── image_list.txt

File Name	Data Name	Link	Disk	Task	Descriptions
geolabel/cameras.txt	gl3d_cams	URL	<0.1G	Common	Camera intrisic/extrinsic parameters, recovered by SfM.
img_kpts/<img_idx>.bin	gl3d_kpts	URL	28G	Common	Image keypoints detected by SIFT.
depths/<img_idx>.pfm	gl3d_depths	URL	30G	Common	Depth maps from MVS algorithms.
rendered_depths/<img_idx>.pfm	gl3d_rendered_depths	URL	30G	Common	Depth maps rendered from 3D mesh models
geolabel/corr.bin	gl3d_corr	URL	6.1G	Local descriptor	Image correspondences that haved survived from SfM.
geolabel/mask.bin	gl3d_mask	URL	5.3G	Image retrieval	Overlap masks of image pairs, computed from mesh re-projections.
geolabel/common_track.txt	gl3d_ct	URL	<0.1G	Image retrieval	Common track ratio of image pairs, computed from SfM.
geolabel/mesh_overlap.txt	gl3d_mo	URL	<0.1G	Image retrieval	Mesh overlap ratio of image pairs, computed from mesh re-projections.

For data organization, refer to docs/data_format.md.

Python-based IO utilities are provided to parse the data, refer to utils/io.py.

Visualizations and examples of usage can be found in example/README.md.

Please feel free to inform us if you need some other intermediate results for your research.

Data Preview (not available anymore)

The mesh reconstruction is available for preview by substituting <pid> in the following link:

https://www.altizure.com/project-model?pid=<pid>

An example is provided here. Noted that some projects are not online available, from 000000000000000000000000 to 00000000000000000000001d.

Acknowledgments

This dataset is prepared and maintained by Zixin Luo, Tianwei Shen, Jacky Tang and Tian Fang. 3D reconstructions are obtained by Altizure.

We also thank Yao Yao and Lei Zhou for generating rendered depths and blended images to further improve the data quality.

Changelog

2019-9-17 Releasing of GL3D_V2

• Another 165 datasets are added, covering mainly landmarks and small objects.
• Rerun SfM for all datasets with GeoDesc to obtain denser reconstruction.
• Camera distortion parameters are provided.
• Undistorted images are provided.
• More helper functions to perform geometry computation.

2019-12-4 Update GL3D_V2

• Provide depth maps to enrich geometric labels.
• Provide helper functions to parse depth maps.

2019-12-16 Update GL3D_V2

• Another 530 Internet tourism datasets are added to enrich the data.
• Mesh overlapping ratio and overlapping masks are provided.

2020-4-13 Update GL3D_V2

• Add download link to rendered depths and blended images, and further refer to the combination of GL3D and BlendedMVS as BlendedMVG, for solving general multi-view geometry problems. Please visit BlendedMVS and refer to its respective paper for details.

2023-04-12 Update GL3D_V2

• Update download links.