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Determining the exact latitude and longitude that a photo was taken is a useful and widely applicable task, yet it remains exceptionally difficult despite the accelerated progress of other computer vision tasks. Most previous approaches…

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360{\deg} depth estimation is a challenging research problem due to the difficulty of finding a representation that both preserves global continuity and avoids distortion in spherical images. Existing methods attempt to leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Kun Huang , Fang-Lue Zhang , Neil Dodgson

In this paper we propose a novel method for image matching based on dense local features and tailored for visual geolocalization. Dense local features matching is robust against changes in illumination and occlusions, but not against…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Gabriele Berton , Carlo Masone , Valerio Paolicelli , Barbara Caputo

Accurate localization ability is fundamental in autonomous driving. Traditional visual localization frameworks approach the semantic map-matching problem with geometric models, which rely on complex parameter tuning and thus hinder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Zhihuang Zhang , Meng Xu , Wenqiang Zhou , Tao Peng , Liang Li , Stefan Poslad

Intrinsic image decomposition aims to estimate physically based rendering (PBR) parameters such as albedo, roughness, and metallicity from images. While recent methods achieve strong single-view predictions, applying them independently to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Alara Dirik , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Cross-view localization, the task of estimating a camera's 3-degrees-of-freedom (3-DoF) pose by aligning ground-level images with satellite images, is crucial for large-scale outdoor applications like autonomous navigation and augmented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Shaowen Tong , Zimin Xia , Alexandre Alahi , Xuming He , Yujiao Shi

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL) presents significant challenges due to the view discrepancy between oblique UAV images and overhead satellite images. Existing methods heavily rely on the supervision of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Haoyuan Li , Chang Xu , Wen Yang , Li Mi , Huai Yu , Haijian Zhang

Cross-view geo-spatial learning consists of two important tasks: Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL) and Cross-View Image Synthesis (CVIS), both of which rely on establishing geometric correspondences between ground and aerial views. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yancheng Zhang , Xiaohan Zhang , Guangyu Sun , Zonglin Lyu , Safwan Wshah , Chen Chen

Cross-view localization and synthesis are two fundamental tasks in cross-view visual understanding, which deals with cross-view datasets: overhead (satellite or aerial) and ground-level imagery. These tasks have gained increasing attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Ningli Xu , Rongjun Qin

Worldwide image geolocalization aims to predict precise GPS coordinates for images captured anywhere on Earth, which is challenging due to the large visual and geographic diversity. Recent methods mainly follow two paradigms:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Pengyue Jia , Derong Xu , Yingyi Zhang , Xiaopeng Li , Wenlin Zhang , Yi Wen , Yuanshao Zhu , Xiangyu Zhao

The goal of cross-view image based geo-localization is to determine the location of a given street view image by matching it against a collection of geo-tagged satellite images. This task is notoriously challenging due to the drastic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Aysim Toker , Qunjie Zhou , Maxim Maximov , Laura Leal-Taixé

Estimating the 6D object pose is an essential task in many applications. Due to the lack of depth information, existing RGB-based methods are sensitive to occlusion and illumination changes. How to extract and utilize the geometry features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Xiao Lin , Deming Wang , Guangliang Zhou , Chengju Liu , Qijun Chen

Imitation learning based visuomotor policies have achieved strong performance in robotic manipulation, yet they often remain sensitive to egocentric viewpoint shifts. Unlike third-person viewpoint changes that only move the camera,…

We study the image-based geolocalization problem, aiming to localize ground-view query images on cartographic maps. Current methods often utilize cross-view localization techniques to match ground-view query images with 2D maps. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Mengjie Zhou , Liu Liu , Yiran Zhong , Andrew Calway

3D occupancy perception holds a pivotal role in recent vision-centric autonomous driving systems by converting surround-view images into integrated geometric and semantic representations within dense 3D grids. Nevertheless, current models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xin Tan , Wenbin Wu , Zhiwei Zhang , Chaojie Fan , Yong Peng , Zhizhong Zhang , Yuan Xie , Lizhuang Ma

High-precision vehicle localization with commercial setups is a crucial technique for high-level autonomous driving tasks. Localization with a monocular camera in LiDAR map is a newly emerged approach that achieves promising balance between…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Jinyu Miao , Kun Jiang , Yunlong Wang , Tuopu Wen , Zhongyang Xiao , Zheng Fu , Mengmeng Yang , Maolin Liu , Diange Yang

Spatial intelligence is the ability of a machine to perceive, reason, and act in three dimensions within space and time. Recent advancements in large-scale auto-regressive models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Junyi Chen , Di Huang , Weicai Ye , Wanli Ouyang , Tong He

Understanding the 3-dimensional structure of the world is a core challenge in computer vision and robotics. Neural rendering approaches learn an implicit 3D model by predicting what a camera would see from an arbitrary viewpoint. We extend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Josh Tobin , OpenAI Robotics , Pieter Abbeel

Worldwide geolocalization aims to locate the precise location at the coordinate level of photos taken anywhere on the Earth. It is very challenging due to 1) the difficulty of capturing subtle location-aware visual semantics, and 2) the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Pengyue Jia , Yiding Liu , Xiaopeng Li , Yuhao Wang , Yantong Du , Xiao Han , Xuetao Wei , Shuaiqiang Wang , Dawei Yin , Xiangyu Zhao

Cross-view geo-localization for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) operating in GNSS-denied environments remains challenging due to the severe geometric discrepancy between oblique UAV imagery and orthogonal satellite maps. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Haoyuan Li , Wen Yang , Fang Xu , Hong Tan , Haijian Zhang , Shengyang Li , Gui-Song Xia