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---
language:
- en
license: cc
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
task_categories:
- text-to-image
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: image
    dtype: image
  - name: label
    dtype:
      class_label:
        names:
          '0': Aeolian_Bedforms
          '1': Aeolian_Dunes
          '2': Aeolian_Ripples
          '3': Barchan_Dunes
          '4': Boulder_Track
          '5': Brain_Terrain
          '6': Bright_Rays_Craters
          '7': Central_Peak_Crater
          '8': Chaos
          '9': Cliff
          '10': Concentric_Crater_Fill
          '11': Crater_Chain
          '12': Crater_Cluster
          '13': Dark_Ray_Craters
          '14': Double_Ring_Basin
          '15': Doublet_Crater
          '16': Dune_Field
          '17': Dust_Devil_Tracks
          '18': Fan_Shape_Deposit
          '19': Fractured_Mounds
          '20': Fresh_Crater
          '21': Gully
          '22': Landslide
          '23': Lava_Flow_Front
          '24': Lava_Tubes
          '25': Layers
          '26': Linear_Dunes
          '27': Lobate_Debris_Apron
          '28': Outflow_Channel
          '29': Pancake_Crater
          '30': Pedestal_Crater
          '31': Pitted_Cone
          '32': Pitted_Terrain
          '33': Polar_Layered_Deposits
          '34': Polygons
          '35': Rampart_Crater
          '36': Rocky_Ejecta_Crater
          '37': Scalloped_Depression
          '38': Slope_Streaks
          '39': Spider
          '40': Swiss_Cheese
          '41': Transverse_Aeolian_Ridges
          '42': Troughs
          '43': Valley_Networks
          '44': Volcano
          '45': Wind_Streaks
          '46': Wrinkle_Ridges
          '47': Yardangs
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 763505091
    num_examples: 1185
  download_size: 758103040
  dataset_size: 763505091
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
tags:
- planet
- multimodal
- retrieval
---

# Landform Retrieval

[**Paper**](https://huggingface.co/papers/2602.13961) | [**Code**](https://github.com/ml-stat-Sustech/MarsRetrieval)

## Dataset Summary

This dataset is Task 2 of [**MarsRetrieval**](https://github.com/ml-stat-Sustech/MarsRetrieval), a retrieval-centric benchmark for evaluating vision-language models (VLMs) on Mars geospatial discovery. Task 2 evaluates **concept-to-instance generalization** for Martian geomorphology. Given a textual geomorphic concept, the model must retrieve its corresponding visual instances from a curated Martian image gallery. The dataset comprises **1,185** carefully curated image patches collected from CTX and HiRISE imagery. The landforms follow a two-level geomorphology taxonomy:

- **7 major genetic classes** (e.g., Aeolian, Volcanic and Fluvial processes)
- **48 geomorphic subclasses** (e.g., Aeolian Dunes, Dust Devil Tracks, Yardangs)

## Task Formulation

We formulate this task as a **text-to-image multi-positive retrieval problem**:

- A text query describes a geomorphic subclass.
- Multiple image instances in the gallery are considered valid positives.
- The goal is to rank all gallery images by cosine similarity in the embedding space.


### Metrics

We report metrics suitable for long-tailed multi-positive retrieval:

- Macro mean Average Precision (mAP)
- nDCG@10
- Hits@10


## How to Use
```python
from datasets import load_dataset

# Load the dataset
dataset = load_dataset("SUSTech/Mars-Landforms")

# Access a sample image and its geomorphic label
print(dataset["train"][0]["image"])
print(dataset["train"][0]["label"])
```
For detailed instructions on the retrieval-centric protocol and official evaluation scripts, please refer to our [Official Dataset Documentation](https://github.com/ml-stat-Sustech/MarsRetrieval/blob/main/docs/DATASET.md).

## Citation

If you find this useful in your research, please consider citing:

```bibtex
@article{wang2026marsretrieval,
  title={MarsRetrieval: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Planetary-Scale Geospatial Retrieval on Mars},
  author={Wang, Shuoyuan and Wang, Yiran and Wei, Hongxin},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.13961},
  year={2026}
}
```