Visual Information Processing (VIP) Laboratory

Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

Indian Heritage Image Retrieval Dataset (IHIRD)




This data-set contains images from various heritage sites in Karnataka (Hampi, Beluru, Halebidu, Somanathapura, Ikkeri, Shivamogga, Hosagunda, Doddagaddavalli, and Kaidala), West Bengal (Bishnupur and Murshidabad), and Andhra Pradesh (Surabheshwara Kona). These places, where the monuments depict various historical and mythological events, are included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites. The images are captured in natural daylight by two high resolution digital SLR cameras of resolution 10M pixels and 18M pixels, whose sizes range from 300 KB to 15 MB.

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  • Dipannita Podder
    Advance Technology Development Center
    Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
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  • Shashaank M. Aswatha
    Advance Technology Development Center
    Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
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  • Jayanta Mukherjee
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering
    Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
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  • Shamik Sural
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering
    Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
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