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We propose to use deep convolutional neural networks to address the problem of cross-view image geolocalization, in which the geolocation of a ground-level query image is estimated by matching to georeferenced aerial images. We use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-14 Scott Workman , Richard Souvenir , Nathan Jacobs

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) has been a subject of significant research over the last 15 to 20 years. VPR is a fundamental task for autonomous navigation as it enables self-localization within an environment. Although robots are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Rose Power , Mubariz Zaffar , Bruno Ferrarini , Michael Milford , Klaus McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

Camera relocalization, a cornerstone capability of modern computer vision, accurately determines a camera's position and orientation (6-DoF) from images and is essential for applications in augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zhendong Xiao , Wu Wei , Shujie Ji , Shan Yang , Changhao Chen

Using large pre-trained models for image recognition tasks is becoming increasingly common owing to the well acknowledged success of recent models like vision transformers and other CNN-based models like VGG and Resnet. The high accuracy of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Xin Du , Benedicte Legastelois , Bhargavi Ganesh , Ajitha Rajan , Hana Chockler , Vaishak Belle , Stuart Anderson , Subramanian Ramamoorthy

Cross-view UAV geolocalization is fundamentally a challenging large-scale image retrieval task, aiming to determine the geographic coordinates of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) queries by matching them against an extensive geo-tagged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Bowen Liu , Pengyue Jia , Wanyu Wang , Derong Xu , Jiawei Cheng , Jiancheng Dong , Xiao Han , Zimo Zhao , Chao Zhang , Bowen Yu , Fangyu Hong , Xiangyu Zhao

Geometric differences between cross-view images, such as drone and satellite views, significantly increase the challenge of Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL), which aims to acquire the geolocation of images by image retrieval. To further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Wei Wang , Dou Quan , Ning Huyan , Shuang Wang , Yi Li , Pei He , Licheng Jiao

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 image geo-localization aims to determine the locations of street-view query images by matching with GPS-tagged reference images from aerial view. Recent works have achieved surprisingly high retrieval accuracy on city-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Sijie Zhu , Taojiannan Yang , Chen Chen

In this work, we introduce a Denser Feature Network (DenserNet) for visual localization. Our work provides three principal contributions. First, we develop a convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture which aggregates feature maps at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Dongfang Liu , Yiming Cui , Liqi Yan , Christos Mousas , Baijian Yang , Yingjie Chen

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

Infrared-visible (IR-VIS) feature matching plays an essential role in cross-modality visual localization, navigation and perception. Along with the rapid development of deep learning techniques, a number of representative image matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Liangzheng Sun , Mengfan He , Xingyu Shao , Binbin Li , Zhiqiang Yan , Chunyu Li , Ziyang Meng , Fei Xing

Visual localization on standard-definition (SD) maps has emerged as a promising low-cost and scalable solution for autonomous driving. However, existing regression-based approaches often overlook inherent geometric priors, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Xuchang Zhong , Xu Cao , Jinke Feng , Hao Fang

Accurate localization is crucial for various applications, including autonomous vehicles and next-generation wireless networks. However, the reliability and precision of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), such as the Global…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-20 Gouranga Charan , Tawfik Osman , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Multimodal intelligence development recently show strong progress in visual understanding and high level reasoning. Though, most reasoning system still reply on textual information as the main medium for inference. This limit their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Soham Pahari , M. Srinivas

For connected vehicles to have a substantial effect on road safety, it is required that accurate positions and trajectories can be shared. To this end, all vehicles must be accurately geolocalized in a common frame. This can be achieved by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Alexis Stoven-Dubois , Kuntima Kiala Miguel , Aziz Dziri , Bertrand Leroy , Roland Chapuis

Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL) in remote sensing aims to locate a drone-view query by matching it to geo-tagged satellite images. Although supervised methods have achieved strong results on closeset benchmarks, they often fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jun Lu , Zehao Sang , Haoqi Wei , Xiangyun Liu , Kun Zhu , Haitao Guo , Zhihui Gong , Lei Ding

Large-scale applications of Visual Place Recognition (VPR) require computationally efficient approaches. Further, a well-balanced combination of data-based and training-free approaches can decrease the required amount of training data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Fangming Yuan , Stefan Schubert , Peter Protzel , Peer Neubert

This work introduces a simulator-based benchmark for visual localization in the autonomous navigation context. The dynamic benchmark enables investigation of how variables such as the time of day, weather, and camera perspective affect the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Lauri Suomela , Jussi Kalliola , Atakan Dag , Harry Edelman , Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen

Image matching, which establishes correspondences between two-view images to recover 3D structure and camera geometry, serves as a cornerstone in computer vision and underpins a wide range of applications, including visual localization, 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Shihua Zhang , Zizhuo Li , Kaining Zhang , Yifan Lu , Yuxin Deng , Linfeng Tang , Xingyu Jiang , Jiayi Ma

Recently, deep learning algorithms, especially fully convolutional network based methods, are becoming very popular in the field of remote sensing. However, these methods are implemented and evaluated through various datasets and deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Guangming Wu , Zhiling Guo