H2OPM: 42 Historical Aerial Image Pairs for Registration Evaluation

42 image pairs for evaluating groupwise registration methods consist of 8 reference ortho-photo maps of Austrian urban and non-urban areas and 3-11 corresponding historical aerial images per reference. The dataset was created by Sebastian Zambanini of TU Wien for a 2019 paper in Pattern Recognition. Ground truth correspondences are provided for accuracy evaluation.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking groupwise image registration algorithms based on the provided 42 image pairs.
• Evaluating registration accuracy using the manually selected ground truth correspondences.
• Developing methods for aligning historical aerial imagery to modern ortho-photo maps.
• Studying urban and landscape change over time in Austrian regions based on the historical and reference images.

Strengths

• Includes 42 image pairs with manually annotated ground truth correspondences for evaluation.
• Covers 8 distinct urban and non-urban areas in Austria.
• Historical images span a defined time range from May 1943 to May 1945.

Limitations

• The scale of historical images is approximate and may be off by up to 30%, as noted in the description.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

TU Wien

Collection Method

Created from reference ortho-photo maps and historical aerial images, with manually selected ground truth points.

Time Range

Historical images captured between May 1943 and May 1945.

Geography

Urban and non-urban areas in Austria.