Spatial Pyramid Attention Enhanced Visual Descriptors for Landmark Retrieval

Landmark retrieval, which aims to search for landmark images similar to a query photo within a massive image database, has received considerable attention for many years. Despite this, finding landmarks quickly and accurately still presents some unique challenges. To tackle these challenges, we present a deep learning model, called the Spatial-Pyramid Attention network (SPA). This network is an end-to-end convolutional network, incorporating a spatial-pyramid attention layer that encodes the input image, leveraging the spatial pyramid structure to highlight regional features based on their relative spatial distinctiveness. An image descriptor is then generated by aggregating these regional features. According to our experiments on benchmark datasets including Oxford5k, Paris6k, and Landmark-100, our proposed model, SPA, achieves mean Average Precision (mAP) accuracy of 85.3% with the Oxford dataset, 89.6% with the Paris dataset, and 80.4% in the Landmark-100 dataset, outperforming existing state-of-theart deep image retrieval models.