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In this paper, we present a high-performing solution to the UAVM 2025 Challenge, which focuses on matching narrow FOV street-level images to corresponding satellite imagery using the University-1652 dataset. As panoramic Cross-View…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Xiaohan Zhang , Tavis Shore , Chen Chen , Oscar Mendez , Simon Hadfield , Safwan Wshah

This study addresses the challenge of performing visual localization in demanding conditions such as night-time scenarios, adverse weather, and seasonal changes. While many prior studies have focused on improving image-matching performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Khang Truong Giang , Soohwan Song , Sungho Jo

Feature matching is a challenging computer vision task that involves finding correspondences between two images of a 3D scene. In this paper we consider the dense approach instead of the more common sparse paradigm, thus striving to find…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Johan Edstedt , Ioannis Athanasiadis , Mårten Wadenbäck , Michael Felsberg

Feature matching is crucial in visual localization, where 2D-3D correspondence plays a major role in determining the accuracy of camera pose. A sufficient number of well-distributed 2D-3D correspondences is essential for accurate pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Hailin Yu , Youji Feng , Weicai Ye , Mingxuan Jiang , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang

Cross-view geo-localisation identifies coarse geographical position of an automated vehicle by matching a ground-level image to a geo-tagged satellite image from a database. Despite the advancements in Cross-view geo-localisation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Barkin Dagda , Muhammad Awais , Saber Fallah

Image-text matching has been a long-standing problem, which seeks to connect vision and language through semantic understanding. Due to the capability to manage large-scale raw data, unsupervised hashing-based approaches have gained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Fan Zhang , Xian-Sheng Hua , Chong Chen , Xiao Luo

Dynamic vision sensors, also known as event cameras, are rapidly rising in popularity for robotic and computer vision tasks due to their sparse activation and high-temporal resolution. Event cameras have been used in robotic navigation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Adam D. Hines , Gokul B. Nair , Nicolás Marticorena , Michael Milford , Tobias Fischer

This brief sketches initial progress towards a unified energy-based solution for the semi-supervised visual anomaly detection and localization problem. In this setup, we have access to only anomaly-free training data and want to detect and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Ergin Utku Genc , Nilesh Ahuja , Ibrahima J Ndiour , Omesh Tickoo

In this work, we introduce LEAD, an approach to discover landmarks from an unannotated collection of category-specific images. Existing works in self-supervised landmark detection are based on learning dense (pixel-level) feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Tejan Karmali , Abhinav Atrishi , Sai Sree Harsha , Susmit Agrawal , Varun Jampani , R. Venkatesh Babu

Visual localization is the problem of estimating a camera within a scene and a key component in computer vision applications such as self-driving cars and Mixed Reality. State-of-the-art approaches for accurate visual localization use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Qunjie Zhou , Torsten Sattler , Marc Pollefeys , Laura Leal-Taixe

Visual correspondence is a crucial step in key computer vision tasks, including camera localization, image registration, and structure from motion. The most effective techniques for matching keypoints currently involve using learned sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Felipe Cadar , Guilherme Potje , Renato Martins , Cédric Demonceaux , Erickson R. Nascimento

In contrast to comparing faces via single exemplars, matching sets of face images increases robustness and discrimination performance. Recent image set matching approaches typically measure similarities between subspaces or manifolds, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-03-13 Conrad Sanderson , Mehrtash T. Harandi , Yongkang Wong , Brian C. Lovell

This letter proposes a method of global localization on a map with semantic object landmarks. One of the most promising approaches for localization on object maps is to use semantic graph matching using landmark descriptors calculated from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Shigemichi Matsuzaki , Kazuhito Tanaka , Kazuhiro Shintani

Visual imagery is indispensable to many multi-attribute decision situations. Examples of such decision situations in travel behaviour research include residential location choices, vehicle choices, tourist destination choices, and various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Sander van Cranenburgh , Francisco Garrido-Valenzuela

Recent advances in mapping techniques have enabled the creation of highly accurate dense 3D maps during robotic missions, such as point clouds, meshes, or NeRF-based representations. These developments present new opportunities for reusing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Lintong Zhang , Yifu Tao , Jiarong Lin , Fu Zhang , Maurice Fallon

Vision is one of the most important of the senses, and humans use it extensively during navigation. We evaluated different types of image and video frame descriptors that could be used to determine distinctive visual landmarks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-17 Jose Rivera-Rubio , Ioannis Alexiou , Anil A. Bharath

We introduce the first learning-based dense matching algorithm, termed Equirectangular Projection-Oriented Dense Kernelized Feature Matching (EDM), specifically designed for omnidirectional images. Equirectangular projection (ERP) images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Dongki Jung , Jaehoon Choi , Yonghan Lee , Somi Jeong , Taejae Lee , Dinesh Manocha , Suyong Yeon

This paper presents a visual geo-localization system capable of determining the geographic locations of places (buildings and road intersections) from images without relying on GPS data. Our approach integrates three primary methods:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Rania Saoud , Slimane Larabi

In this paper, we address the problem of global-scale image geolocation, proposing a mixed classification-retrieval scheme. Unlike other methods that strictly tackle the problem as a classification or retrieval task, we combine the two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos , Panagiotis Galopoulos , Symeon Papadopoulos , Ioannis Kompatsiaris

Image matching and object detection are two fundamental and challenging tasks, while many related applications consider them two individual tasks (i.e. task-individual). In this paper, a collaborative framework called MatchDet (i.e.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Jinxiang Lai , Wenlong Wu , Bin-Bin Gao , Jun Liu , Jiawei Zhan , Congchong Nie , Yi Zeng , Chengjie Wang