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Accurate vehicle localization is a crucial step towards building effective Vehicle-to-Vehicle networks and automotive applications. Yet standard grade GPS data, such as that provided by mobile phones, is often noisy and exhibits significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Eli Brosh , Matan Friedmann , Ilan Kadar , Lev Yitzhak Lavy , Elad Levi , Shmuel Rippa , Yair Lempert , Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz , Roei Herzig , Trevor Darrell

The problem visual place recognition is commonly used strategy for localization. Most successful appearance based methods typically rely on a large database of views endowed with local or global image descriptors and strive to retrieve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Arsalan Mousavian , Jana Kosecka

Consumer electronic devices such as mobile handsets, goods tagged with RFID labels, location and position sensors are continuously generating a vast amount of location enriched data called geospatial data. Conventionally such geospatial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Arvind W. Kiwelekar , Geetanjali S. Mahamunkar , Laxman D. Netak , Valmik B Nikam

Visual localization and mapping is a crucial capability to address many challenges in mobile robotics. It constitutes a robust, accurate and cost-effective approach for local and global pose estimation within prior maps. Yet, in highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Guoxiang Zhou , Berta Bescos , Marcin Dymczyk , Mark Pfeiffer , José Neira , Roland Siegwart

This paper presents a new approach for the challenging problem of geo-locating an image using image matching in a structured database of city-wide reference images with known GPS coordinates. We cast the geo-localization as a clustering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Eyasu Zemene , Yonatan Tariku , Haroon Idrees , Andrea Prati , Marcello Pelillo , Mubarak Shah

Computer vision helps machines or computer to see like humans. Computer Takes information from the images and then understands of useful information from images. Gesture recognition and movement recognition are the current area of research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Anitta D , Annis Fathima A

Localization of street objects from images has gained a lot of attention in recent years. We propose an approach to improve asset geolocation from street view imagery by enhancing the quality of the metadata associated with the images using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Chao-Jung Liu , Matej Ulicny , Michael Manzke , Rozenn Dahyot

Localizing visual sounds consists on locating the position of objects that emit sound within an image. It is a growing research area with potential applications in monitoring natural and urban environments, such as wildlife migration and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Ho-Hsiang Wu , Magdalena Fuentes , Prem Seetharaman , Juan Pablo Bello

Robot localization remains a challenging task in GPS denied environments. State estimation approaches based on local sensors, e.g. cameras or IMUs, are drifting-prone for long-range missions as error accumulates. In this study, we aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Tianyi Zhang , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

The overarching goals in image-based localization are scale, robustness and speed. In recent years, approaches based on local features and sparse 3D point-cloud models have both dominated the benchmarks and seen successful realworld…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Simon Lynen , Bernhard Zeisl , Dror Aiger , Michael Bosse , Joel Hesch , Marc Pollefeys , Roland Siegwart , Torsten Sattler

Given a set of images containing objects from the same category, the task of image co-localization is to identify and localize each instance. This paper shows that this problem can be solved by a simple but intriguing idea, that is, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Yao Li , Linqiao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

We address the problem of ground-to-satellite image geo-localization, that is, estimating the camera latitude, longitude and orientation (azimuth angle) by matching a query image captured at the ground level against a large-scale database…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yujiao Shi , Xin Yu , Liu Liu , Dylan Campbell , Piotr Koniusz , Hongdong Li

Fine localization in autonomous driving platforms is a task of broad interest, receiving much attention in recent years. Some localization algorithms use the Euclidean distance as a similarity measure between the local image acquired by a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-12 Samuel Todd Flanagan , Drupad K. Khublani , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Siddharth Agarwal , Ankit Vora

When humans play geolocation games such as GeoGuessr, they rely on concrete visual cues, such as road markings, vegetation, or architectural details, to infer where an image was captured. Whether image geolocation models rely on similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Emilie Durrieu , Christophe Hurter , Philippe Muller , Victor Boutin

Visual localization, i.e., camera pose estimation in a known scene, is a core component of technologies such as autonomous driving and augmented reality. State-of-the-art localization approaches often rely on image retrieval techniques for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Noé Pion , Martin Humenberger , Gabriela Csurka , Yohann Cabon , Torsten Sattler

Geolocation is now a vital aspect of modern life, offering numerous benefits but also presenting serious privacy concerns. The advent of large vision-language models (LVLMs) with advanced image-processing capabilities introduces new risks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Yi Liu , Junchen Ding , Gelei Deng , Yuekang Li , Tianwei Zhang , Weisong Sun , Yaowen Zheng , Jingquan Ge , Yang Liu

Visual-based recognition, e.g., image classification, object detection, etc., is a long-standing challenge in computer vision and robotics communities. Concerning the roboticists, since the knowledge of the environment is a prerequisite for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Antonios Gasteratos , Konstantinos A. Tsintotas , Tobias Fischer , Yiannis Aloimonos , Michael Milford

We propose a vision-based method that localizes a ground vehicle using publicly available satellite imagery as the only prior knowledge of the environment. Our approach takes as input a sequence of ground-level images acquired by the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Dong-Ki Kim , Matthew R. Walter

As an emerging and challenging problem in the computer vision community, weakly supervised object localization and detection plays an important role for developing new generation computer vision systems and has received significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Dingwen Zhang , Junwei Han , Gong Cheng , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Image co-segmentation is important for its advantage of alleviating the ill-pose nature of image segmentation through exploring the correlation between related images. Many automatic image co-segmentation algorithms have been developed in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Xiabi Liu , Xin Duan