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State-of-the-art in Visual Geo-localization

BREJCHA Jan and ČADÍK Martin. State-of-the-art in Visual Geo-localization. Pattern Analysis and Applications, vol. 2017, no. 3, pp. 1-25. ISSN 1433-7541. Available from: http://cadik.posvete.cz/papers/brejcha-cadik17geolocalization_methods_survey.pdf
Czech title
Přehled vizuálních geo-lokalizačních metod
Type
journal article
Language
english
Authors
URL
Keywords

visual geo-localization, city-scale localization, natural environments, image geolocation, visual odometry, geo-tagging, image to model registration, 3D alignment, cross-domain registration, extrinsic calibration, 6DOF

Abstract

Large-scale visual geo-localization has recently gained a lot of attention in computer vision research and new methods are proposed steadily. However, surveys of visual geo-localization methods are rare and they focus mainly
on city-scale localization methods. We present a comprehensive and balanced study of existing visual geo-localization domains, including city-scale, global approaches and methods for natural environments. We overview the methods to show their pros and cons, application domains, datasets, as well as evaluation techniques. We categorize the reviewed methods by two criteria. The first is the type of data the method uses for geo-location estimation. The second criterion is the target environment for which the method has been proposed and validated. Based on this categorization we analyze important conditions that must be considered while solving geo-localization problems. Each category is in a different state of research - while city-scale image-based methods received a lot of attention, other categories like natural environments using cross-domain data sources are still challenging problems under active research. Future research of large-scale visual geo-localization is discussed, primarily the challenging and new research category - geo-localization in natural environments.

Published
2017
Pages
1-25
Journal
Pattern Analysis and Applications, vol. 2017, no. 3, ISSN 1433-7541
Publisher
Springer Verlag
DOI
UT WoS
000405607000001
EID Scopus
BibTeX
@ARTICLE{FITPUB11370,
   author = "Jan Brejcha and Martin \v{C}ad\'{i}k",
   title = "State-of-the-art in Visual Geo-localization",
   pages = "1--25",
   journal = "Pattern Analysis and Applications",
   volume = 2017,
   number = 3,
   year = 2017,
   ISSN = "1433-7541",
   doi = "10.1007/s10044-017-0611-1",
   language = "english",
   url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/11370"
}
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