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This paper addresses the problem of weakly supervised cross-view localization, where the goal is to estimate the pose of a ground camera relative to a satellite image with noisy ground truth annotations. A common approach to bridge the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Qiwei Wang , Shaoxun Wu , Yujiao Shi

Cross-view geo-localization aims at localizing a ground-level query image by matching it to its corresponding geo-referenced aerial view. In real-world scenarios, the task requires accommodating diverse ground images captured by users with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Li Mi , Chang Xu , Javiera Castillo-Navarro , Syrielle Montariol , Wen Yang , Antoine Bosselut , Devis Tuia

Learning powerful representations in bird's-eye-view (BEV) for perception tasks is trending and drawing extensive attention both from industry and academia. Conventional approaches for most autonomous driving algorithms perform detection,…

A recent sensor fusion in a Bird's Eye View (BEV) space has shown its utility in various tasks such as 3D detection, map segmentation, etc. However, the approach struggles with inaccurate camera BEV estimation, and a perception of distant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Minsu Kim , Giseop Kim , Kyong Hwan Jin , Sunwook Choi

Image-to-point cloud cross-modal Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a challenging task where the query is an RGB image, and the database samples are LiDAR point clouds. Compared to single-modal VPR, this approach benefits from the widespread…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Jianyi Peng , Fan Lu , Bin Li , Yuan Huang , Sanqing Qu , Guang Chen

Bird's-eye-view (BEV) images have been widely demonstrated to provide valuable prior information for navigation. Given the global information provided by such views, two key challenges remain: how to fully exploit this information and how…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yijin Wang , Yuru Tian , Xijie Huang , Weiqi Gai , Mo Zhu , Xin Zhou , Yuze Wu , Fei Gao

We propose an accurate and interpretable fine-grained cross-view localization method that estimates the 3 Degrees of Freedom (DoF) pose of a ground-level image by matching its local features with a reference aerial image. Unlike prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zimin Xia , Chenghao Xu , Alexandre Alahi

Accurate environment perception is essential for automated driving. When using monocular cameras, the distance estimation of elements in the environment poses a major challenge. Distances can be more easily estimated when the camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Lennart Reiher , Bastian Lampe , Lutz Eckstein

Cross-view matching refers to the problem of finding the closest match for a given query ground view image to one from a database of aerial images. If the aerial images are geotagged, then the closest matching aerial image can be used to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Deeksha Dixit , Surabhi Verma , Pratap Tokekar

In this paper, we propose a new image-based visual place recognition (VPR) framework by exploiting the structural cues in bird's-eye view (BEV) from a single monocular camera. The motivation arises from two key observations about place…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Fudong Ge , Yiwei Zhang , Shuhan Shen , Yue Wang , Weiming Hu , Jin Gao

Place recognition is a key module for long-term SLAM systems. Current LiDAR-based place recognition methods usually use representations of point clouds such as unordered points or range images. These methods achieve high recall rates of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Lun Luo , Shuhang Zheng , Yixuan Li , Yongzhi Fan , Beinan Yu , Siyuan Cao , Huiliang Shen

Cross-view geo-localization aims to estimate the GPS location of a query ground-view image by matching it to images from a reference database of geo-tagged aerial images. To address this challenging problem, recent approaches use panoramic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Xiaohan Zhang , Waqas Sultani , Safwan Wshah

Recent advances in cross-view geo-localization (CVGL) methods have shown strong potential for supporting unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation in GNSS-denied environments. However, existing work predominantly focuses on matching UAV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Kejia Liu , Haoyang Zhou , Ruoyu Xu , Peicheng Wang , Mingli Song , Haofei Zhang

This paper aims at achieving fine-grained building attribute segmentation in a cross-view scenario, i.e., using satellite and street-view image pairs. The main challenge lies in overcoming the significant perspective differences between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Junyan Ye , Qiyan Luo , Jinhua Yu , Huaping Zhong , Zhimeng Zheng , Conghui He , Weijia Li

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

Precise estimation of global orientation and location is critical to ensure a compelling outdoor Augmented Reality (AR) experience. We address the problem of geo-pose estimation by cross-view matching of query ground images to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Niluthpol Chowdhury Mithun , Kshitij Minhas , Han-Pang Chiu , Taragay Oskiper , Mikhail Sizintsev , Supun Samarasekera , Rakesh Kumar

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

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

Accurate LiDAR-camera calibration is fundamental to fusing multi-modal perception in autonomous driving and robotic systems. Traditional calibration methods require extensive data collection in controlled environments and cannot compensate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Weiduo Yuan , Jerry Li , Justin Yue , Divyank Shah , Konstantinos Karydis , Hang Qiu

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