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We present a real-time approach for image-based localization within large scenes that have been reconstructed offline using structure from motion (Sfm). From monocular video, our method continuously computes a precise 6-DOF camera pose, by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Hyon Lim , Sudipta Sinha , Michael Cohen , Matt Uyttendaele

Global visual localization estimates the absolute pose of a camera using a single image, in a previously mapped area. Obtaining the pose from a single image enables many robotics and augmented/virtual reality applications. Inspired by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Mohammad Altillawi , Shile Li , Sai Manoj Prakhya , Ziyuan Liu , Joan Serrat

We propose a clustering-based generalized low rank approximation method, which takes advantage of appealing features from both the generalized low rank approximation of matrices (GLRAM) and cluster analysis. It exploits a more general form…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Yujun Zhu , Jie Zhu , Hizba Arshad , Zhongming Wang , Ju Ming

This paper proposes a robust localization system that employs deep learning for better scene representation, and enhances the accuracy of 6-DOF camera pose estimation. Inspired by the fact that global scene structure can be revealed by wide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Hsin-I Chen , Sebastian Agethen , Chiamin Wu , Winston Hsu , Bing-Yu Chen

Aerial image analysis at a semantic level is important in many applications with strong potential impact in industry and consumer use, such as automated mapping, urban planning, real estate and environment monitoring, or disaster relief.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-27 Dragos Costea , Marius Leordeanu

Image geolocalization, the task of determining an image's geographic origin, poses significant challenges, largely due to visual similarities across disparate locations and the large search space. To address these issues, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Narges Ghasemi , Amir Ziashahabi , Salman Avestimehr , Cyrus Shahabi

Visual place recognition is the task of recognizing same places of query images in a set of database images, despite potential condition changes due to time of day, weather or seasons. It is important for loop closure detection in SLAM and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Stefan Schubert , Peer Neubert , Peter Protzel

Image geolocalization, the task of identifying the geographic location depicted in an image, is important for applications in crisis response, digital forensics, and location-based intelligence. While recent advances in large language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Lingyao Li , Runlong Yu , Qikai Hu , Bowei Li , Min Deng , Yang Zhou , Xiaowei Jia

Visual localization is the task of accurate camera pose estimation in a known scene. It is a key problem in computer vision and robotics, with applications including self-driving cars, Structure-from-Motion, SLAM, and Mixed Reality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Torsten Sattler , Qunjie Zhou , Marc Pollefeys , Laura Leal-Taixe

We introduce a novel neural volumetric pose feature, termed PoseMap, designed to enhance camera localization by encapsulating the information between images and the associated camera poses. Our framework leverages an Absolute Pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Jingyu Lin , Jiaqi Gu , Bojian Wu , Lubin Fan , Renjie Chen , Ligang Liu , Jieping Ye

We propose a method for accurately localizing ground vehicles with the aid of satellite imagery. Our approach takes a ground image as input, and outputs the location from which it was taken on a georeferenced satellite image. We perform…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-11-02 Hang Chu , Hongyuan Mei , Mohit Bansal , Matthew R. Walter

Camera relocalization involving a prior 3D reconstruction plays a crucial role in many mixed reality and robotics applications. Estimating the camera pose directly with respect to pre-built 3D models can be prohibitively expensive for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Thuan B. Bui , Dinh-Tuan Tran , Joo-Ho Lee

Camera relocalisation is an important problem in computer vision, with applications in simultaneous localisation and mapping, virtual/augmented reality and navigation. Common techniques either match the current image against keyframes with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Tommaso Cavallari , Stuart Golodetz , Nicholas A. Lord , Julien Valentin , Luigi Di Stefano , Philip H. S. Torr

Image retrieval-based cross-view localization methods often lead to very coarse camera pose estimation, due to the limited sampling density of the database satellite images. In this paper, we propose a method to increase the accuracy of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Yujiao Shi , Fei Wu , Akhil Perincherry , Ankit Vora , Hongdong Li

The image geolocalization task aims to predict the location where an image was taken anywhere on Earth using visual clues. Existing large vision-language model (LVLM) approaches leverage world knowledge, chain-of-thought reasoning, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Yuxiang Ji , Yong Wang , Ziyu Ma , Yiming Hu , Hailang Huang , Xuecai Hu , Guanhua Chen , Liaoni Wu , Xiangxiang Chu

Image retrieval is a fundamental problem in computer vision. This paper presents our 3rd place detailed solution to the Google Landmark Retrieval 2020 challenge. We focus on the exploration of data cleaning and models with metric learning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Ke Mei , Lei li , Jinchang Xu , Yanhua Cheng , Yugeng Lin

Outdoor visual localization is a crucial component to many computer vision systems. We propose an approach to localization from images that is designed to explicitly handle the strong variations in appearance happening between daytime and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Hugo Germain , Guillaume Bourmaud , Vincent Lepetit

Visual relocalization is a fundamental task in the field of 3D computer vision, estimating a camera's pose when it revisits a previously known scene. While point-based hierarchical relocalization methods have shown strong scalability and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Huaqi Tao , Bingxi Liu , Guangcheng Chen , Fulin Tang , Li He , Hong Zhang

This paper introduces a modular, non-deep learning method for filtering and refining sparse correspondences in image matching. Assuming that motion flow within the scene can be approximated by local homography transformations, matches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Fabio Bellavia , Zhenjun Zhao , Luca Morelli , Fabio Remondino

Image-based localization, or camera relocalization, is a fundamental problem in computer vision and robotics, and it refers to estimating camera pose from an image. Recent state-of-the-art approaches use learning based methods, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Xiaotian Li , Juha Ylioinas , Juho Kannala