H2OPM Image Registration Dataset

The H2OPM Image Registration Dataset is a dataset for the evaluation of (groupwise) registration methods.  It consists of 8 reference ortho-photo maps (OPMs) of urban and non-urban areas in Austria. For each reference image,  3-11 historical aerial images captured  between May 1943 and May 1945 are available, leading to a total of  42 image pairs. In order to evaluate the registration accuracy,  manually selected ground truth correspondences  between the historical images and the OPM are provided.

Technical Details

All images have been scale-normalized to a spatial resolution of 1m . However, for the historical images scale information could only approximated, the actual scale of the images might be actually off up to 30%.

Reference OPM images are named “ref_i.png” (i=reference image number, 1..8).
Corresponding historical images are named “image_i_j.png” (j=historical image number). For example, “image_2_4.png” is the fourth out of five historical images that could be registered to  reference image “ref_2.png”.

Ground truth control points are given in the text files “CP_i_j.txt”. Each row of the text file  describes one control point pair with values x1,y1,x2,y2. The origin of the coordinate system is the  top left of the image, x-axis points right, y-axis points down.

The dataset is used for evaluation in the following paper:

Zambanini S. “Feature-based groupwise registration of historical aerial images to present-day ortho-photo maps“, Pattern Recognition, 90:66-77, June 2019. (arXiv)

Please cite this paper when publishing results on the dataset.