Tour the World: Building a Web-Scale Landmark Recognition Engine

This demo is for the following paper:
Yantao Zheng, Ming Zhao, Yang Song, Hartwig Adam, Ulrich Buddemeier, Alessandro Bissacco, Fernando Brucher, Tat-Seng Chua, and Hartmut Neven, "Tour the World: building a web-scale landmark recognition engine," CVPR 2009.

We provide 2 demos:

1. The visual clusters of 15 landmarks, shown in this HTML page as below. Click on the landmark name to jump to its visual cluster section. 

2. A list of 1000 randomly selected landmarks from our recognition engine, together with their iconic images. Click here to view the list.

 

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Landmark Visual Clusters

		Acropolis, Athens, Greece
		Arc de Triomphe, Paris, France
		Abbey and Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
		Akshardham Temple , Jaipur, India
		Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem, Israel
		"A Christmas Story" House, Cleveland, United States
		Alberta Legislature Building, Edmonton, Canada
		Alte Oper, Frankfurt, Germany
		Amalienborg Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark
		Ambassador Bridge, Detroit, United States
		Ancient Agora, Athens, Greece
		Beihai Park, Beijing, China
		Burj al-Arab hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
		Reginald's Tower, Waterford, Ireland
		Hiroshima Peace Memorial, Hiroshima, Japan

Note: the region in red bounding box is the region of interest, which is involved in matching.

• Example photos
  
  

• Cluster 1: 28 images and 106 connections.
  
  
  
  

• Cluster 2: 13 images and 34 connections.
  
  
  
  
• Cluster 3: 11 images and 16 connections.
  
  
  
  
• Cluster 4: 10 images and 24 connections.
  
  
  
  
• Cluster 5; 5 images and 9 connections.
  
  
  
  
• Cluster 6: 4 images and 3 connections.
  
  
  
  
• Cluster 7: 4 images and 3 connections.
  
  
  
  
  

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Landmark: Arc de Triomphe, Paris, France

• Example photos:
  
  

• Cluster 1: 98 images and 824 connections.
  
  
  
• Cluster 2: 14 images and 36 connections.
  
  
  
• Cluster 3: 7 images 12 connections.
  
  

Landmark: Abbey and Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Example photos:
  
  

• Cluster 1: 23 images and 80 connections.
  
  
  

• Cluster 2: 13 images and 30 connections.
  
  
  
  

• Cluster 3: 11 images and 21 connections.
  
  
  
  Cluster 4: 11 images and 20 connections.
  
  
  
• Cluster 5: 6 images and 7 connections.
  
  
  
  Cluster 6: 6 images and 6 connections.
  
  
  

Landmark: Akshardham Temple , Jaipur, India

• Example photos:
  
  

• Cluster 1: 99 images and 1631 connections.
  
  
  
  
• Cluster 2: 6 images and 13 connections.
  
  
  Cluster 3: 5 images and 4 connections.
  
  

Landmark: Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem, Israel

• Example photos:
  
  

• Cluster 1: 15 images and 26 connections.
  
  
  
• Cluster 2: 10 images and 14 connections.
  
  
  Cluster 3: 8 images and 14 connections.
  
  
  
• Cluster 4: 8 images and 12 connections.
  
  
  
• Cluster 5: 6 images and 7 connections.
  
  
  Cluster 6: 5 images and 5 connections.
  
  
  Cluster 7: 5 images and 5 connections.
  
  

Landmark: "A Christmas Story" House, Cleveland, United States

• Example photos:
  
  
  

• Cluster 1: 41 images and 256 connections.
  
  
  
  
• Cluster 2: 6 images and 10 connections.
  
  
  
  
• Cluster 3: 6 images, 7 connections.
  
  
  

Landmark: Alberta Legislature Building, Edmonton, Canada

• Example photos:
  
  

• Cluster 1: 17 images and 32 connections.
  
  

• Cluster 2: 16 images and 45 connections.
  
  

Landmark: Alte Oper, Frankfurt, Germany

• Example photos:
  

• Cluster 1: 73 images and 377 connections.
  
  

Landmark: Amalienborg Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark

• Example photos:
  
  

• Cluster 1: 45 images and 153 connections.
  
  
• Cluster 2: 8 images and 15 connections.
  
  

• Cluster 3: 7 images and 10 connections.
  
  

• Cluster 4: 7 images and 8 connections.
  
  

Landmark: Ambassador Bridge, Detroit, United States

• Example photos:
  
  

• Cluster 1: 16 images and 30 connections.
  
  
  
• Cluster 2: 12 images and 17 connections.
  
  
• Cluster 3: 4 images and 5 connections.
  
  

• Example photos
  
  

• Cluster 1: 11 images and 19 connections.
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• Cluster 2: 10 images and 18 connections.
  
  
  
• Cluster 3: 8 images and 9 connections.
  
  

Landmark: Beihai Park, Beijing, China

• Example photos:
  
  

• Cluster 1: 34 images and 80 connections.
  
  

Landmark: Burj al-Arab hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Example photos:
  
  

• Cluster 1: 23 images and 79 connections.
  
  
  
• Cluster 2: 19 images and 72 connections.
  
  
  
• Cluster 3: 12 images and 24 connections.
  
  
  
• Cluster 4: 6 images and 7 connections.
  
  
  
• Cluster 5: 5 images and 5 connections.
  
  

Landmark: Reginald's Tower, Waterford, Ireland

• Example photos:
  

• Cluster 1: 20 images and 34 connections.
  
  

• Cluster 2: 10 images and 14 connections.
  
  

• Cluster 3: 4 images and 3 connections.
  
  
  

Landmark: Hiroshima Peace Memorial, Hiroshima, Japan

• Example photos:
  
  

• Cluster 1: 7 images and 15 connections.
  

• Cluster 2: 9 images and 12 connections.