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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

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

This paper addresses the problem of cross-view image geo-localization, where the geographic location of a ground-level street-view query image is estimated by matching it against a large scale aerial map (e.g., a high-resolution satellite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Yujiao Shi , Xin Yu , Liu Liu , Tong Zhang , Hongdong Li

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

This paper proposes a fine-grained self-localization method for outdoor robotics that utilizes a flexible number of onboard cameras and readily accessible satellite images. The proposed method addresses limitations in existing cross-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Shan Wang , Yanhao Zhang , Akhil Perincherry , Ankit Vora , Hongdong Li

Visual localization is the problem of estimating the camera pose of a given query image within a known scene. Most state-of-the-art localization approaches follow the structure-based paradigm and use 2D-3D matches between pixels in a query…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Vojtech Panek , Torsten Sattler , Zuzana Kukelova

Determining the precise geographic location of an image at a global scale remains an unsolved challenge. Standard image retrieval techniques are inefficient due to the sheer volume of images (>100M) and fail when coverage is insufficient.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Philipp Lindenberger , Paul-Edouard Sarlin , Jan Hosang , Matteo Balice , Marc Pollefeys , Simon Lynen , Eduard Trulls

The problem of localization on a geo-referenced satellite map given a query ground view image is useful yet remains challenging due to the drastic change in viewpoint. To this end, in this paper we work on the extension of our earlier work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Sixing Hu , Gim Hee Lee

In this paper, we propose to go beyond the well-established approach to vision-based localization that relies on visual descriptor matching between a query image and a 3D point cloud. While matching keypoints via visual descriptors makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Qunjie Zhou , Sérgio Agostinho , Aljosa Osep , Laura Leal-Taixé

Visual localization and mapping is the key technology underlying the majority of mixed reality and robotics systems. Most state-of-the-art approaches rely on local features to establish correspondences between images. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Mihai Dusmanu , Ondrej Miksik , Johannes L. Schönberger , Marc Pollefeys

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

Cross-view geo-localization has garnered notable attention in the realm of computer vision, spurred by the widespread availability of copious geotagged datasets and the advancements in machine learning techniques. This paper provides a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Abhilash Durgam , Sidike Paheding , Vikas Dhiman , Vijay Devabhaktuni

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

Geo-localization is a critical task in computer vision. In this work, we cast the geo-localization as a 2D image retrieval task. Current state-of-the-art methods for 2D geo-localization are not robust to locate a scene with drastic scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Liqi Yan , Yiming Cui , Yingjie Chen , Dongfang Liu

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Brandon Clark , Alec Kerrigan , Parth Parag Kulkarni , Vicente Vivanco Cepeda , Mubarak Shah

Worldwide geo-localization involves determining the exact geographic location of images captured globally, typically guided by geographic cues such as climate, landmarks, and architectural styles. Despite advancements in geo-localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Furong Jia , Lanxin Liu , Ce Hou , Fan Zhang , Xinyan Liu , Yu Liu

Localization has been a challenging task for autonomous navigation. A loop detection algorithm must overcome environmental changes for the place recognition and re-localization of robots. Therefore, deep learning has been extensively…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Alex Junho Lee , Seungwon Song , Hyungtae Lim , Woojoo Lee , Hyun Myung

Cross-view localization aims to estimate the 3-DoF pose of a ground-view image by aligning it with aerial or satellite imagery. Existing methods typically address this task through direct regression or feature alignment in a shared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Panwang Xia , Qiong Wu , Lei Yu , Yi Liu , Mingtao Xiong , Xudong Lu , Yi Liu , Haoyu Guo , Yongxiang Yao , Junjian Zhang , Xiangyuan Cai , Hongwei Hu , Zhi Zheng , Yongjun Zhang , Yi Wan

Feature matching is crucial in visual localization, where 2D-3D correspondence plays a major role in determining the accuracy of camera pose. A sufficient number of well-distributed 2D-3D correspondences is essential for accurate pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Hailin Yu , Youji Feng , Weicai Ye , Mingxuan Jiang , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang

Generalizable cross-view geo-localization aims to match the same location across views in unseen regions and conditions without GPS supervision. Its core difficulty lies in severe semantic inconsistency caused by viewpoint variation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Hongyang Zhang , Yinhao Liu , Haitao Zhang , Zhongyi Wen , Zhenyu Kuang , Shuxian Liang , Xiansheng Hua