Most publications that aim to optimize neural networks for CBIR, train and test their models on domain specific datasets. It is therefore unclear, if those networks can be used as a general-purpose image feature extractor. After analyzing popular image retrieval test sets we decided to manually curate GPR1200, an easy to use and accessible but challenging benchmark dataset with 1200 categories and 10 class examples. Classes and images were manually selected from six publicly available datasets of different image areas, ensuring high class diversity and clean class boundaries.

This dataset can therefore be used for benchmarking image descriptor systems on their generalizability.