Are buildings only instances?

• DOI: 10.1145/2425333.2425334
• Publication Date: 2013-01-08T12:47:01Z
• Authors: Abhinav Goel; Mayank Juneja; C. V. Jawahar
• Keywords: 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology

Instance retrieval has emerged as a promising research area with buildings the popular test subject. Given query image or region, objective is to find images in database containing same object scene. There been recent surge efforts finding instances of building challenging datasets such Oxford 5k dataset [19], 100k and Paris [20].