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We present a visual localization system that learns to estimate camera poses in the real world with the help of synthetic data. Despite significant progress in recent years, most learning-based approaches to visual localization target at a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Qi Yan , Jianhao Zheng , Simon Reding , Shanci Li , Iordan Doytchinov

Cross-view image matching for geo-localisation is a challenging problem due to the significant visual difference between aerial and ground-level viewpoints. The method provides localisation capabilities from geo-referenced images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Tavis Shore , Simon Hadfield , Oscar Mendez

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

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

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

In this paper, we discuss and review how combined multi-view imagery from satellite to street-level can benefit scene analysis. Numerous works exist that merge information from remote sensing and images acquired from the ground for tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Sébastien Lefèvre , Devis Tuia , Jan Dirk Wegner , Timothée Produit , Ahmed Samy Nassar

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

Cross-view geo-localization determines the location of a query image, captured by a drone or ground-based camera, by matching it to a geo-referenced satellite image. While traditional approaches focus on image-level localization, many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Zheyang Huang , Jagannath Aryal , Saeid Nahavandi , Xuequan Lu , Chee Peng Lim , Lei Wei , Hailing Zhou

Robot localization remains a challenging task in GPS denied environments. State estimation approaches based on local sensors, e.g. cameras or IMUs, are drifting-prone for long-range missions as error accumulates. In this study, we aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Tianyi Zhang , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

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 work, we propose a cross-view learning approach, in which images captured from a ground-level view are used as weakly supervised annotations for interpreting overhead imagery. The outcome is a convolutional neural network for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Connor Greenwell , Scott Workman , Nathan Jacobs

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

The visual entities in cross-view images exhibit drastic domain changes due to the difference in viewpoints each set of images is captured from. Existing state-of-the-art methods address the problem by learning view-invariant descriptors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Krishna Regmi , Mubarak Shah

Learning to generate natural scenes has always been a daunting task in computer vision. This is even more laborious when generating images with very different views. When the views are very different, the view fields have little overlap or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Hao Ding , Songsong Wu , Hao Tang , Fei Wu , Guangwei Gao , Xiao-Yuan Jing

This paper presents a novel approach for cross-view synthesis aimed at generating plausible ground-level images from corresponding satellite imagery or vice versa. We refer to these tasks as satellite-to-ground (Sat2Grd) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Tao Jun Lin , Wenqing Wang , Yujiao Shi , Akhil Perincherry , Ankit Vora , Hongdong Li

Accurate visual localization in dense urban environments poses a fundamental task in photogrammetry, geospatial information science, and robotics. While imagery is a low-cost and widely accessible sensing modality, its effectiveness on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yandi Yang , Jianping Li , Youqi Liao , Yuhao Li , Yizhe Zhang , Zhen Dong , Bisheng Yang , Naser El-Sheimy

With the rapid growth of the low-altitude economy, UAVs have become crucial for measurement and tracking in patrol systems. However, in GNSS-denied areas, satellite-based localization methods are prone to failure. This paper presents a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Tao Liu , Kan Ren , Qian Chen

Ground to aerial matching is a crucial and challenging task in outdoor robotics, particularly when GPS is absent or unreliable. Structures like buildings or large dense forests create interference, requiring GNSS replacements for global…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Christopher Klammer , Michael Kaess

This work addresses visual cross-view metric localization for outdoor robotics. Given a ground-level color image and a satellite patch that contains the local surroundings, the task is to identify the location of the ground camera within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Zimin Xia , Olaf Booij , Marco Manfredi , Julian F. P. Kooij

Cross-view geo-localization aims to spot images of the same location shot from two platforms, e.g., the drone platform and the satellite platform. Existing methods usually focus on optimizing the distance between one embedding with others…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Tingyu Wang , Zhedong Zheng , Zunjie Zhu , Yuhan Gao , Yi Yang , Chenggang Yan