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DISC21 (Dataset for ISC 2021)

Introduced by Matthijs Douze et al. in The 2021 Image Similarity Dataset and Challenge17 Jun 2021 archive 2025-07-28

DISC21 is a benchmark for large-scale image similarity detection. This benchmark is used for the Image Similarity Challenge at NeurIPS'21 (ISC2021). The goal is to determine whether a query image is a modified copy of any image in a reference corpus of size 1~million. The benchmark features a variety of image transformations such as automated transformations, hand-crafted image edits and machine-learning based manipulations. This mimics real-life cases appearing in social media, for example for integrity-related problems dealing with misinformation and objectionable content. The strength of the image manipulations, and therefore the difficulty of the benchmark, is calibrated according to the performance of a set of baseline approaches. Both the query and reference set contain a majority of ``distractor'' images that do not match, which corresponds to a real-life needle-in-haystack setting, and the evaluation metric reflects that.

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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First row (archive order)PaperCode
Image Similarity Detection DISC21 dev HOW+ASMK w/o normalization 17.32 The 2021 Image Similarity Dataset and Challenge facebookresearch/isc2021 4 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

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DateSamples run Syntology
The 2021 Image Similarity Dataset and Challenge 1 4 17 Jun 2021 ran 2 of 2 samples (0 unverified; 2 pointer-only for licence)

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  • DISC21
  • DISC21 dev

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