Title
Textplace: Visual Place Recognition And Topological Localization Through Reading Scene Texts
Abstract
Visual place recognition is fundamental for many vision based applications. Sparse feature and deep learning based methods have been successful and dominant over the decade. However, most of them do not explicitly leverage high-level semantic information to deal with challenging scenarios where they may fail. This paper proposes a novel visual place recognition algorithm, termed TextPlace, based on scene texts in the wild. Since scene texts are high-level information invariant to illumination changes and very distinct for different places when considering spatial correlation, it is beneficial for visual place recognition tasks under extreme appearance changes and perceptual aliasing. It also takes spatial-temporal dependence between scene texts into account for topological localization. Extensive experiments show that TextPlace achieves state-of-the-art performance, verifying the effectiveness of using high-level scene texts for robust visual place recognition in urban areas.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ICCV.2019.00295
2019 IEEE/CVF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION (ICCV 2019)
DocType
Volume
Issue
Conference
2019
1
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1550-5499
0
0.34
References 
Authors
7
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ziyang Hong100.68
Yvan Petillot214219.16
David M Lane3285.94
Yishu Miao417811.44
Sen Wang527921.15