This repository is a research evaluation harness for Visual Place Recognition (VPR) models. It wraps a wide range of state-of-the-art VPR methods behind a common CLI, allowing users to run any supported model on standard VPR datasets (e.g., St Lucia) or a bundled toy dataset. The main entry point is test_dataset.py, which loads database/query image folders, extracts descriptors using the selected model, computes recall@N metrics, and saves logs and optional visualizations. The repo is designed to work with the companion VPR-datasets-downloader to standardize dataset format. Although it is a CLI tool, its primary purpose is research evaluation, so it is classified as data_research.