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Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL) between UAV imagery and satellite images plays a crucial role in target localization and UAV self-positioning. However, most existing methods rely on the idealized assumption of scale consistency between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yibin Ye , Shuo Chen , Kun Wang , Xiaokai Song , Jisheng Dang , Qifeng Yu , Xichao Teng , Zhang Li

Accurate localization using visual information is a critical yet challenging task, especially in urban environments where nearby buildings and construction sites significantly degrade GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) signal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Xiaofan Li , Zhihao Xu , Chenming Wu , Zhao Yang , Yumeng Zhang , Jiang-Jiang Liu , Haibao Yu , Fan Duan , Xiaoqing Ye , Yuan Wang , Shirui Li , Xun Sun , Ji Wan , Jun Wang

In Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-denied environments such as indoor parking structures or dense urban canyons, achieving accurate and robust vehicle positioning remains a significant challenge. This paper proposes a…

Robot control loops require causal pose estimates that depend only on past and present measurements. At each timestep, controllers compute commands using the current pose without waiting for future refinements. While traditional visual SLAM…

This paper introduces a novel approach to enhancing cross-view localization, focusing on the fine-grained, sequential localization of street-view images within a single known satellite image patch, a significant departure from traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Dong Yuan , Frederic Maire , Feras Dayoub

Visual perception is regularly used by humans and robots for navigation. By either implicitly or explicitly mapping the environment, ego-motion can be determined and a path of actions can be planned. The process of mapping and navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Jacky C. K. Chow , Ivan Detchev , Kathleen Ang , Kristian Morin , Karthik Mahadevan , Nicholas Louie

For VSLAM (Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping), localization is a challenging task, especially for some challenging situations: textureless frames, motion blur, etc.. To build a robust exploration and localization system in a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Weinan Chen , Lei Zhu , Yisheng Guan , C. Ronald Kube , Hong Zhang

Camera-to-robot calibration is crucial for vision-based robot control and requires effort to make it accurate. Recent advancements in markerless pose estimation methods have eliminated the need for time-consuming physical setups for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Jingpei Lu , Zekai Liang , Tristin Xie , Florian Ritcher , Shan Lin , Sainan Liu , Michael C. Yip

Effective collaboration in multi-robot systems requires accurate and robust estimation of relative localization: from cooperative manipulation to collaborative sensing, and including cooperative exploration or cooperative transportation.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Jorge Peña Queralta , Li Qingqing , Fabrizio Schiano , Tomi Westerlund

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

Localization of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) relies heavily on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), which are susceptible to interference. Especially in security applications, robust localization algorithms independent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Jouko Kinnari , Riccardo Renzulli , Francesco Verdoja , Ville Kyrki

Estimating vehicles' locations is one of the key components in intelligent traffic management systems (ITMSs) for increasing traffic scene awareness. Traditionally, stationary sensors have been employed in this regard. The development of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Elnaz Namazi , Rudolf Mester , Chaoru Lu , Jingyue Li

Cross-view object geo-localization enables high-precision object localization through cross-view matching, with critical applications in autonomous driving, urban management, and disaster response. However, existing methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Shuhan Hu , Yiru Li , Yuanyuan Li , Yingying Zhu

We consider the problem of relative pose regression in visual relocalization. Recently, several promising approaches have emerged in this area. We claim that even though they demonstrate on the same datasets using the same split to train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Amir Shalev , Omer Achrack , Brian Fulkerson , Ben-Zion Bobrovsky

Benchmark datasets that measure camera pose accuracy have driven progress in visual re-localisation research. To obtain poses for thousands of images, it is common to use a reference algorithm to generate pseudo ground truth. Popular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Eric Brachmann , Martin Humenberger , Carsten Rother , Torsten Sattler

We present a method for localizing a single camera with respect to a point cloud map in indoor and outdoor scenes. The problem is challenging because correspondences of local invariant features are inconsistent across the domains between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Peng Yin , Lingyun Xu , Ji Zhang , Howie Choset , Sebastian Scherer

Metric Cross-View Geo-Localization (MCVGL) aims to estimate the 3-DoF camera pose (position and heading) by matching ground and satellite images. In this work, instead of pinhole and satellite images, we study robust MCVGL using holistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Junwei Zheng , Ruize Dai , Ruiping Liu , Zichao Zeng , Yufan Chen , Fangjinhua Wang , Kunyu Peng , Kailun Yang , Jiaming Zhang , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Cross-view geo-localization identifies the locations of street-view images by matching them with geo-tagged satellite images or OSM. However, most existing studies focus on image-to-image retrieval, with fewer addressing text-guided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Junyan Ye , Honglin Lin , Leyan Ou , Dairong Chen , Zihao Wang , Qi Zhu , Conghui He , Weijia Li

Visual localization plays a critical role in the functionality of low-cost autonomous mobile robots. Current state-of-the-art approaches for achieving accurate visual localization are 3D scene-specific, requiring additional computational…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yanmei Jiao , Binxin Zhang , Peng Jiang , Chaoqun Wang , Rong Xiong , Yue Wang

In complex environments, low-cost and robust localization is a challenging problem. For example, in a GPSdenied environment, LiDAR can provide accurate position information, but the cost is high. In general, visual SLAM based localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Dong Han , Zuhao Zou , Lujia Wang , Cheng-Zhong Xu