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Localization is an essential task for mobile autonomous robotic systems that want to use pre-existing maps or create new ones in the context of SLAM. Today, many robotic platforms are equipped with high-accuracy 3D LiDAR sensors, which…

The ground-to-satellite image matching/retrieval was initially proposed for city-scale ground camera localization. This work addresses the problem of improving camera pose accuracy by ground-to-satellite image matching after a coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Yujiao Shi , Hongdong Li , Akhil Perincherry , Ankit Vora

We introduce a self-attending task generative adversarial network (SATGAN) and apply it to the problem of augmenting synthetic high contrast scientific imagery of resident space objects with realistic noise patterns and sensor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Nathan Toner , Justin Fletcher

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

With the recent growth of urban mapping and autonomous driving efforts, there has been an explosion of raw 3D data collected from terrestrial platforms with lidar scanners and color cameras. However, due to high labeling costs, ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Kyle Genova , Xiaoqi Yin , Abhijit Kundu , Caroline Pantofaru , Forrester Cole , Avneesh Sud , Brian Brewington , Brian Shucker , Thomas Funkhouser

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

With the rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence Generated Image (AGI) technology, the accurate assessment of their quality has become an increasingly vital requirement. Prevailing methods typically rely on cross-modal models like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Qiang Li , Qingsen Yan , Haojian Huang , Peng Wu , Haokui Zhang , Yanning Zhang

Semantic segmentation is a crucial task for robot navigation and safety. However, it requires huge amounts of pixelwise annotations to yield accurate results. While recent progress in computer vision algorithms has been heavily boosted by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Alina Marcu , Dragos Costea , Vlad Licaret , Marius Leordeanu

Semantic segmentation using deep neural networks has been widely explored to generate high-level contextual information for autonomous vehicles. To acquire a complete $180^\circ$ semantic understanding of the forward surroundings, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Wei Zhou , Alex Zyner , Stewart Worrall , Eduardo Nebot

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

To extract information at scale, researchers increasingly apply semantic segmentation techniques to remotely-sensed imagery. While fully-supervised learning enables accurate pixel-wise segmentation, compiling the exhaustive datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Simone Fobi , Terence Conlon , Jayant Taneja , Vijay Modi

In this paper, we propose a similarity-aware fusion network (SAFNet) to adaptively fuse 2D images and 3D point clouds for 3D semantic segmentation. Existing fusion-based methods achieve remarkable performances by integrating information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Linqing Zhao , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

Completing a corrupted image with correct structures and reasonable textures for a mixed scene remains an elusive challenge. Since the missing hole in a mixed scene of a corrupted image often contains various semantic information,…

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Cross-view image geolocalization provides an estimate of an agent's global position by matching a local ground image to an overhead satellite image without the need for GPS. It is challenging to reliably match a ground image to the correct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Lena M. Downes , Dong-Ki Kim , Ted J. Steiner , Jonathan P. How

We explore the task of geometric reconstruction of images captured from a mixture of ground and aerial views. Current state-of-the-art learning-based approaches fail to handle the extreme viewpoint variation between aerial-ground image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Khiem Vuong , Anurag Ghosh , Deva Ramanan , Srinivasa Narasimhan , Shubham Tulsiani

Despite data augmentation being a de facto technique for boosting the performance of deep neural networks, little attention has been paid to developing augmentation strategies for generative adversarial networks (GANs). To this end, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Prateek Katiyar , Anna Khoreva

Training a deep network to perform semantic segmentation requires large amounts of labeled data. To alleviate the manual effort of annotating real images, researchers have investigated the use of synthetic data, which can be labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Fatemeh Sadat Saleh , Mohammad Sadegh Aliakbarian , Mathieu Salzmann , Lars Petersson , Jose M. Alvarez

Street-view imagery provides us with novel experiences to explore different places remotely. Carefully calibrated street-view images (e.g. Google Street View) can be used for different downstream tasks, e.g. navigation, map features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Wenmiao Hu , Yichen Zhang , Yuxuan Liang , Yifang Yin , Andrei Georgescu , An Tran , Hannes Kruppa , See-Kiong Ng , Roger Zimmermann

As hubs of human activity, urban surfaces consist of a wealth of semantic entities. Segmenting these various entities from satellite imagery is crucial for a range of downstream applications. Current advanced segmentation models can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yu Wang , Yi Wang , Rui Dai , Yujie Wang , Kaikui Liu , Xiangxiang Chu , Yansheng Li

Recently image-to-image translation has received increasing attention, which aims to map images in one domain to another specific one. Existing methods mainly solve this task via a deep generative model, and focus on exploring the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Songyao Jiang , Zhiqiang Tao , Yun Fu