PVL-BA-Bench

PVL-BA-Bench is a large-scale bundle adjustment benchmark dataset from Polar-vision Lab. It provides public release metadata, interactive browser viewers, and downloadable PVL-BA, COLMAP, and BAL packages for photogrammetric optimization research.

Release Links

• Static release index and interactive viewers: https://pub-2c28bdf6e62548919c47727a9b969dda.r2.dev/index.html
• Downloadable packages in this dataset repository: packages/{pvl-ba,colmap,bal}/.../*.zip
• Source tools and manifests: https://github.com/Polar-vision/PVL-BA-Bench

Dataset Viewer

The Hugging Face Dataset Viewer exposes three tabular metadata configurations:

• datasets: one row per released BA problem.
• artifacts: one row per downloadable package, including relative package path, size, file count, and SHA-256 checksum.
• viewers: one row per interactive viewer HTML file.

The large ZIP packages are intentionally not used as Viewer data files. They are downloadable artifacts referenced by the metadata tables.

Release Summary

The release contains 978 BA problems and 2,934 downloadable ZIP packages:

• 978 PVL-BA packages
• 978 COLMAP packages
• 978 BAL packages

Collections:

• 16 ABS Cloud Earth blocks
• 820 REL Cloud Earth blocks
• 20 controlled aerotriangulation blocks
• 122 COLMAP text-model BA blocks

Formats

Each released problem may be downloaded in three formats:

• pvl-ba: Polar-vision Lab four-file bundle adjustment format.
• colmap: COLMAP text-model format.
• bal: classic BAL single-file format with optional sidecars.

Interactive HTML viewers are hosted on R2 under viewers/<dataset>.html.