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Who’s Waldo

Introduced by Claire Yuqing Cui et al. in Who's Waldo? Linking People Across Text and Images16 Aug 2021 archive 2025-07-28

Who's Waldo is a dataset of 270K image–caption pairs, depicting interactions of people, that is automatically mined from Wikimedia Commons. It is a benchmark dataset for person-centric visual grounding, the problem of linking between people named in a caption and people pictured in an image.

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

All 1 leaderboard whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.

First row (archive order)PaperCode
Person-centric Visual Grounding Who’s Waldo Who's Waldo Accuracy 63.5 Who's Waldo? Linking People Across Text and Images clairecyq/whos-waldo 1 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

1 shown of 1 paper with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 8. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

DateSamples run Syntology
Who's Waldo? Linking People Across Text and Images 1 1 16 Aug 2021 not harvested

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

License archive 2025-07-28

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Modalities archive 2025-07-28

Languages archive 2025-07-28

Variants archive 2025-07-28

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